The Kaiser's Battle, subtitled The German Offensive, March 1918, is a two-player board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. in 1980 that simulates the southern part of the German spring offensive of World War I known as Kaiserschlacht. One player commands German units and the other the Allies, on a 22 by 34 inch hex map of Picardy with 200 counters. Play uses the then-standard I Go, You Go sequence, but combat has no Combat Results Table: each side multiplies unit strengths by a die roll and the ratio is compared with the defender's morale, so outcomes are unpredictable. Special rules cover poison gas, artillery and air power, and attackers must trace supply to a headquarters. Designed by Joseph Balkoski, it ran as a free pull-out game in Strategy and Tactics issue 83 and was also sold as a boxed set.
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The Kaiser's Battle, subtitled "The German Offensive, March 1918", is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1980
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The Kaiser's Battle is a two-player board wargame
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