Torgau is a two-player board wargame about the Battle of Torgau of November 1760, fought between Prussians and Austrians in the Seven Years' War. Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) released it in 1974, designed by Frank Chadwick, as a zip lock bag game. One player commands Frederick the Great's Prussians and the other the Austrian forces of Field Marshal Daun, who hold a strong hilltop position. The game uses a large hex-grid map at 200 yards per hex and 480 counters, and its rules owe more to traditional miniatures wargames than to board wargames: counters have a facing, there is no zone of control, melee happens when enemy units share a hex, and a hex may hold up to 300 soldiers in line or column. The Prussians suffer command control problems on entry. The single scenario runs 56 turns of 15 minutes each, and reviews described a very long game of 10 to 12 hours, complex but admired for its detail.
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Source 1815: The Waterloo Campaign (Wikipedia)
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is a board wargame published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW)
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released as a zip lock bag game by GDW in 1974.
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Torgau is a two-player wargame in which one player controls Frederick the Great's Prussians
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gameplay was characterized as very long (10
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The rules are developed from previous GDW wargames Torgau and Crimea
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