Tannenberg is a two-player wargame where one player controls Russian forces, and the other player controls the German forces. As two large Russian armies moved into East Prussia - led by two generals who refused to communicate with each other about their positions and strategies - Germany used its large network of rails to quickly move high concentrations of troops into positions that allowed them to encircle the Russian Second Army in the vicinity of Tannenberg (now Stębark in Poland), site of a famous victory of the Teutonic Knights in 1410. The second edition was also sold as a standalone game.Īt the start of the Great War in August 1914, Germany was fighting a two-front war, facing France in the west and Russia in the east. Nine years later, Tannenberg was completely revised and republished as a free pull-out game in SPI's house magazine Strategy & Tactics to promote SPI's upcoming release of The Great War in the East. Although Tannenberg could be played as a standalone game, rules were included to combine it and 1914 into a two-front wargame. The game was created by game designer Jim Dunnigan as a companion piece for Avalon Hill's Western Front wargame 1914, also designed by Dunnigan. (SPI) in 1969 that simulates the Battle of Tannenberg on World War I's Eastern Front. Tannenberg is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. The cover of Strategy & Tactics #69, which featured the 1978 edition of Tannenberg as a pull-out game
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