1969 · SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.)
On June 22, 1941, before dawn, German tanks and guns began firing across the Russian border. It was the beginning of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, one of the most brutal campaigns in the history of warfare. Four years later, the victorious Red Army has suffered a loss of seven million lives.
The Barbarossa campaign included some of the greatest episodes in military history: the futile attack on Moscow in the winter of 1941-42, the siege of Stalingrad, the great Russian offensive beginning in 1944 that would lead the Red Army to the historic meeting with the Americans at the Elbe and on to victory in Berlin.
Barbarossa is not simply one game but it is composed of three different types of games.
1) The Standard Games: There are four of these games. They depict specific situations of crucial parts of the war
2)The Campaign Game: It combines the four afforementioned games and fill in the gaps so that the campaign can be played out in sequence
3)The Variable situations: Several "what if" historical effects are examined when added to the above games.
