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Caporetto, 1917
Board Wargame
Caporetto, 1917, subtitled Catastrophe for Italy, is a board wargame simulating the 1917 Battle of Caporetto on the Italian front of the First World War. It was designed by Albert Nofi and published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1978, with graphics by Redmond A. Simonsen. The game was originally issued as one of four linked games sharing a common rule system in SPI's quadrigame collection The Great War in the East, and was later released separately as an individual folio game in a cardstock folder. Two players take opposing sides, one commanding Italian forces and the other the Central Powers, fighting across a 17 by 22 inch hex grid map of the Italian-Austrian front in northeastern Italy, at a scale of 5.5 kilometers per hex. The forces are represented by roughly 200 die-cut cardboard counters standing for the historical military units engaged in the battle.
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Caporetto, 1917, subtitled "Catastrophe for Italy", is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1978 that simulates the Battle of Caporetto.
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Caporetto, 1917 is a wargame for two players in which one controls the Italians, and the other controls the Central Powers forces.
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Caporetto, 1917, subtitled "Catastrophe for Italy", is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1978 that simulates the Battle of Caporetto.
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