Operation Typhoon: The German Assault on Moscow, 1941

Operation Typhoon: The German Assault on Moscow, 1941 is a two-player board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. in 1978. One player commands the German forces and the other the Soviet defenders in a simulation of the last German attempt to take Moscow, launched on 17 November 1941 as two pincer offensives north and south of the city while a third army pressed from the west. The game uses 800 counters and three hex grid maps at 2.7 miles per hex, with each turn standing for one day of the battle. Weather, supply, air power, unit morale and Russian entrenchments are all handled by the rules, and the Soviet unit strengths stay hidden until they are drawn at random, which models fog of war. Four scenarios are included, three short ones on a single map and a campaign game covering the whole battle. The system descends from the earlier SPI game Wacht am Rhein, and the designers were Joe Angiolilo and Joseph Balkoski. It reached number one on the publisher bestseller list after release and was later issued in Japan and re-published by Decision Games in 2024.