Uprising: Warsaw 1944

The Warsaw Uprising was a major World War II operation, in the summer of 1944, by the Polish underground resistance, led by the Home Army, to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. The uprising was timed to coincide with the retreat of the German forces from Poland ahead of the Soviet advance. While approaching the eastern suburbs of the city, the Red Army temporarily halted combat operations, enabling the Germans to regroup and defeat the Polish resistance and to raze the city in reprisal. The Uprising was fought for 63 days with little outside support. It was the single largest military effort taken by any European resistance movement during World War II. Game covers whole uprising, since the first to the last days of fights, giving players a chance to see if there was any way to win this possibly pointless battle. German player controls Whermacht, SS and eastern collaboration forces, while Polish player controls all the major underground resistance units as well as pro-soviet Polish People Army that tried to help the uprising. Game is drived by command points - each player has a limited number of these. Players spend command points to perform certain actions like movement, attack, resupply, introduce reinforcements, pacify, ruin or build the barrickades. There also cards depicting various events that happend throughout the uprising.