Tunisia (1995)

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Designer	Dean Essig
Artist	Dean Essig
Publisher	The Gamers
Year Published	1995
# of Players	2
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 2 players Recommended with 2, more than 2 players (9 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	360 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	16 and up
User Suggested Ages	14 and up (6 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet (3 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain	Wargames (5 voters) [vote]
Category	Wargame World War II
Mechanic	Dice Rolling Hex-and-Counter Simulation
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Family	Operational Combat Series
Primary Name	Tunisia
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Tunisia - OCS goes to the North African theater of operations. The game simulates the beginning of the Tunisian campaign November 1942 till the surrender of all Axis forces in Africa, May 1943.

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Winner of the 1995 Charles S. Roberts award for best WW2 boardgame.

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Tunisia

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First Edition

Publisher: The Gamers

Artist: Dean Essig

Year: 1995

Size: 11.50 x 9.00 x 1.50 inches

1.50 pounds

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3	General Reprint?	2011-08-05	LtUrban	10
10	Sessions A moment from the 'Race for Tunis' ...	2011-07-30	Kappa_ap	1
1	Rules Ground Unit mode change after Air Transport?	2011-06-30	Kappa_ap	1
2	Rules Trace Supply & Rail CAP ...	2011-06-28	Kappa_ap	2
2	Rules Race for Tunis - Reinforcements ... continued ...	2011-06-27	Kappa_ap	7
1	General looking for opponent for PBEM	2011-04-28	jeff-n-jessa	0
5	General Replacement counters	2011-04-26	gohrns	3
4	Rules Organic trucks	2010-10-27	abendoso	5
8	Rules Fueling units 12.5b	2010-10-20	abendoso	4
4	General About to start solitaire, any suggestions?	2010-07-14	abendoso	5

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Tunisia HouseRules

My very personal House Rules. A little update for this sweet title.

Alberto

2010-08-22

OCS unit transport playeraid

Player aid to show unit transport equivalents for the Operational Combat Series (OCS)

skink

2008-07-31

Tunisia terrain chart

OCS Tunisia terrain reference chart

skink

2008-05-30

Revised campaign setup cards

The revised campaign cards use counters scans to speed-up setup in Tunisia. Some new counters are also included.

Cric75

2008-05-27

OCS V4.0 Game Log Sheet

A simple log sheet to assist players keep track of where they are in an OCS v4.0 game that might take several sessions to complete. Works wells with Tunisia, can't comment on it's usefulness with other OCS games.

sassypickle

2008-04-12

tunisia_setup_hexes1.csv

Set up hexes xref to units in CSV(comma seperated value) file. Can import into your spreadsheet software.

jxxx

2007-05-07

OCS40v35_changes.htm

OCS40v35 rules changes

jxxx

2007-03-21

Tunisia.doc

Replay of the Campaign Game in Word 97.doc

ermj1986

2006-10-11

Tunisia.doc

Replay article of Campaign Game 70 pages in Word 97

ermj1986

2006-10-11

TUNISIA4.pdf

Cards to keep divisions off-map, 4/4

luca marcolungo

2004-10-28

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Operational Combat Series-OCS (The Gamers) at Consimworld	http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?50@493.QEbacbskP3...	2011-10-18
Rules, errata, articles from the gamers archive	http://www.gamersarchive.net/theGamers/archive/tun...	2011-05-26
Tunisia VASSAL Module	http://www.vassalengine.org/community/index.php?op...	2006-02-14
English review at Richard H. Berg's Official Webpage (.doc)	http://members.tripod.com/~RichardHBerg/brog18.htm...	2005-01-20
Game review download	http://members.tripod.com/~RichardHBerg/tunisia.do...	2003-12-01