Decisive Campaigns Case Blue: Anatomy of a Disaster
My first dip back into the world of computer war games last year was Decisive Campaigns Case Blue. I had just finished rereading William Craig's Enemy at the Gates (my second favorite book about war) when I read about this game. I quickly bought it and jumped in with both feet, skipping the rules and learning on the fly. A German soldier at Stalingrad. The desolation is complete. No game to my knowledge does an adequate job representing the scope of the fighting in Stalingrad. Since then I've periodically opened the game to continue my saved Operation Uranus campaign. I am playing as the Germans and working hard to avert the disaster I know is coming. I've made some strategic decisions as the front commander that would have earned me a flight back to the Wolf's Lair and a firing squad and it's only turn 3. It is a testament to how f'd up Hitler's control of the army was that you find the Germans and their allies spread so thinly. To cou...