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On the foggy morning of 10 November 1444, the fate of South-Eastern Christendom hangs on by a thread as your heavily outnumbered Crusader army stands before the terrifying mass of Sultan Murad II’s Ottoman host near the Black Sea port of Varna. You are outnumbered nearly two to one however, your heavy cavalry advantage can make the difference.
Medieval Command: Battle of Varna 1444 is a solo Print & Play wargame that simulates the epic last ditch crusader attempt to free the Balkans from Ottoman rule. You must master a smart dice-drafting system where GREEN dice power Ottoman attacks and Crusader defenses, while RED dice fuel your own offensives.
Outnumbered by the Ottomans, you cannot win a war of attrition against these odds. Your only hope is to tactically bank your dice to unleash devastating Boosted Actions like a thunderous, multi-die cavalry charge to smash the elite Janissary Wall before your lines crumble and the young King Władysław III is slain in the mud.
Recreate a medieval battle that cemented the fate of the Balkans for the next 450+ years....
A historical defeat that ensured that European and Christian powers would not be able to dislodge the Ottomans from Southeast Europe and spell the ultimate doom of Constantinople a few years later in 1453. Can you make the difference and contest Ottoman hegemony?
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