2022 · Gecko Games (II)
Assault on Gallipoli is a two-player strategic wargame that covers the key battles of the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915. The first edition of the game sold out in December 2022. A second edition was published by Hexasim in 2024.
One player controls the Australian, New Zealand and British forces (ANZAC player) while the other controls the Ottoman forces (Turkish player).
Each turn represents one day, units represent battalions, companies and individual ships. Players take it in turn activating groups of units in an area. Once they are activated to move, fire or dig a trench, the units are flipped over to their Exhausted side. At the beginning of each new turn they are flipped back to their Fresh side.
Game design by Kieran Oakley and Russell Lowke. Game art by Jose Ramon Faura. Rules editor and TableTop Simulator module by Rolf Grein.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
After months of stalemate on the Western Front, the British and French decided they would open a second front by attacking Germany’s ally – the Ottoman Empire. In March 1915 they sent a fleet of battleships through the Dardanelles in an effort to reach the Turkish capitol, Constantinople, and force the Ottoman government to surrender.
