World War II: European Theater of Operations (1985)

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Board Game Rank: 1967

War Game Rank: 450

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Designer	Douglas Niles
Artist	Jeff Easley
Publisher	SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.) TSR
Year Published	1985
# of Players	2 − 3
User Suggested # of Players	Best with more than 3 players Recommended with 2, 3, more than 3 players (8 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	360 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	14 (3 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (2 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain	Wargames (5 voters) [vote]
Category	Wargame World War II
Mechanic	Dice Rolling Hex-and-Counter
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WW2 European Operations covering the whole of WW2 or campaigns. Ie, Battle of the Bulge, Barbarossa. Strategic level game where you really need to understand & implement strategy for the whole of each game. Turn based, play is based on two massive maps covering from UK to Urals, Greenland to Falklands (yes, this game also has sea movement, fleets and interdiction rules for ore supply).

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Can be combined with:

World War II: Pacific Theater of Operations

Re-implemented by:

Advanced European Theater of Operations

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SPI / TSR Swastika Cover edition

Publisher: SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.), TSR

Artist: Jeff Easley

Year: 1985

Product Code: ISBN 394-54824-8TSR3000

Size: Avalon Hill Bookcase

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0	Rules Differences Between the 1st TSR edition (Flaming Swastika) and the 2nd TSR edition	2012-05-26	lgoldberg	0
1	Rules Starting Offensive Question	2012-05-11	lgoldberg	2
1	Rules Scenario One Sink the Bismark	2012-04-25	WVjunk	2
1	Rules Looking for original ETO rulebook	2012-03-23	Geronimo666	2
4	General Will this ever be re-printed?	2012-01-31	Blackbird...	3
1	General WWII & AETO	2012-01-31	Blackbird...	2
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2	General Allied OOB Missing	2012-01-23	renorx	1
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	Recommendations

Strong Recommendations
World War II: Pacific Theater of Operations

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Krieg! World War II in Europe	Advanced European Theater of Operations

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World War II: Barbarossa to Berlin	Race For Tunis	The Eagle and the Sun	Days of Decision II
Advanced Third Reich	Europe Aflame	1776	War at Sea
Gulf Strike	Hell's Highway

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Russian Front	Pacific War	World in Flames

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ETO house rules and all known official errata

a few house rules we suggest - to fix some minor problems we have found in the rules, - to enhance "realism", - to improve balance and fun without adding complexity also the official errata from S&T # 104 have fun

ecz67

2011-03-17

ETO Sequence of Play improved, enriched and completed

Sequence of Play improved, enriched and completed.

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2011-01-23

National Incomes and Production Costs

Handy PDF Tables of national incomes and production costs for various assets.

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2010-04-20

Calculator for U-boot damages

Excel sheet for the calculation of the average damage that a single sub or a group of subs would achieve correlated to the expense that a successful counter attack would cause the axis player.

Manimal

2009-03-19

GE IT back counters

New German and Italian counters back side.

samos

2007-11-08

GE IT front counters

New German and Italian counters front side.

samos

2007-11-08

WWII.DOC

ETO Rules with corrections from PTO

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2005-08-17

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Board Game Rank:	1967
War Game Rank:	450
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Description and review of the game from Map and Counters blog	http://mapandcounters.blogspot.com/2009/10/spitsr-...	2012-02-15
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