Bismarck is a naval board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1962 and revised in 1978, designed by Thomas Shaw, Charles S. Roberts, Mick Uhl and Jack Greene, simulating the 1941 hunt for the German battleship Bismarck across the North Atlantic. The game is played by two participants, one commanding German naval forces trying to break out into the Atlantic and threaten Allied shipping, and the other commanding the British Royal Navy forces tasked with locating and sinking the German raider before it can escape or inflict serious damage. As an early Avalon Hill wargame credited in part to Charles S. Roberts, regarded as a founding figure of the commercial board wargame hobby, Bismarck represents an early attempt to model a specific historical naval search-and-destroy operation using the movement, combat and information rules typical of the wargame genre of its era.
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Bismarck is a board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1962 (and revised in 1978) that simulates the hunt for the Bismarck.
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Bismarck is a two-player board wargame in which one player controls the German battleship Bismarck (and in the 1978 edition, the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen), and the other player the British forces hunting for it.
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Bismarck is a board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1962 (and revised in 1978) that simulates the hunt for the Bismarck.
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