Sicily: The Race for Messina is a two-player board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. in 1981. It simulates Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943, with one player commanding the Allies and the other the Axis. It was the third and last of SPI's Victory in the West series, which reused the rules of Operation Typhoon, themselves based on Panzergruppe Guderian: players alternate movement and combat, and combat values for infantry and tank battalions are drawn at random the first time a unit fights. Special rules cover paratroop drops, support points and German and Italian reinforcements and withdrawals. It offers a four-turn teaching scenario on the American landings, a 20-turn campaign and a second 20-turn scenario with variable set-up. Designed by Dick Rustin, it ran as a free pull-out game in Strategy and Tactics issue 89 and as a boxed set.
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Sicily: The Race for Messina is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1981
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Sicily is a board wargame for two players
Derived From: Operation Typhoon: The German Assault on Moscow, 1941, Description, gameplay
The game uses a set of rules initially adapted for SPI's Panzergruppe Guderian, and then adapted for Operation Typhoon.
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- Playing Time: 1200
- Designer: Dick Rustin
- Publisher: Hobby Japan
- Publisher: SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.)
- Game Category: Wargame
- Game Category: World War II
- Game Mechanic: Dice Rolling
- Game Mechanic: Hexagon Grid
- Game Mechanic: Ratio / Combat Results Table
- Game Mechanic: Simulation
- Minimum Players: 2
- Maximum Players: 2
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