Lost Victory, subtitled Manstein at Kharkov, Winter 1943, is a two-player board wargame designed by David James Ritchie and published by GMT Games in 1994. It simulates the German and Soviet winter campaign of early 1943 that culminated in the Third Battle of Kharkov, in which Field Marshal Erich von Manstein's counteroffensive recaptured the city after a period of Soviet advances following Stalingrad. One player commands the Soviet forces and the other the German army, fighting across a 22 by 34 inch hex-grid map scaled at six kilometers per hex, with 480 unit counters and a 32-page rulebook governing movement and a ten-sided die used for combat resolution. As a 1994 GMT Games release, it represents the operational-wargame design tradition that succeeded SPI in the American hobby market, applying detailed unit-level simulation to a campaign often cited by military historians as one of the more skillfully executed mobile defenses of the Second World War.
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1. Lost Victory (Wikipedia)
Infobox, game type
WWII board wargame
Infobox, year published
1994
Infobox, players
Two (one controlling Soviet forces, one controlling German forces)
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