Kasserine: Baptism of Fire, February 1943 is a two-player board wargame designed by Jay Nelson with graphic design by Redmond A. Simonsen, published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1976. It simulates the Battle of Kasserine Pass, an early and costly engagement between American and Axis forces in the North African campaign of World War II, in which inexperienced U.S. troops faced a sharp reversal against German armor before stabilizing the front. One player commands the Axis forces and the other the Allied defenders, using a hex map and unit counters to reproduce the historical pass-and-mountain terrain of the battle. The game originally appeared as one of four linked titles in SPI's Four Battles in North Africa quadrigame box, a packaging format that bundled several related battle simulations using shared rules, and it was later reissued as an individual folio game for players who wanted only this particular battle rather than the full set.
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1. Kasserine: Baptism of Fire (Wikipedia)
Infobox, game type
Board wargame; World War II North African theatre
Infobox, year published
1976
Infobox, number of players
Two players (one controls Axis forces, one controls Allied forces)
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