COB-COBRA

Updated 090530
  1. TITLE: Cobra, Game of the Normandy Breakout.
  2. PUBLISHER: Originally appeared in SPI STRATEGY & TACTICS Magazine Issue number 65 (1977)..A boxed version was later published by SPI (1978?). In 1985 TSR published the Expanded Edition of COBRA to include the original Allied landings and subsequent breakout from the Normandy Peninsula.
  3. SCOPE: Patton's Summer Offensive in France, based on the PANZERGRUPPE GUDERIAN game system.
  4. RULEBOOK DESCRIPTION: COBRA is a regimental/divisional scale simulation of the Allied break-out from the Normandy peninsula in the summer of 1944, which culminated in the encirclement of some 160,000 German troops in the “Falaise Pocket.”
  5. GAME BOX DESCRIPTION:
  6. YEAR PUBLISHED (EDITIONS): First Edition 19xx
  7. CREDITS
    • SPI Edition, (1977 Magazine; 19### Boxed)
      • GAME DESIGN: Brad E. Hessel
      • PHYSICAL SYSTEMS DESIGN AND GRAPHICS: Redmond A. Simonsen & Ivor Janci
      • PLAYTESTING: David Werden, John Butterfield, Ian Hall
    • TSR Edition, (1985)
      • EXPANSION GAME DESIGN: David James Ritchie
      • SECOND EDITION DEVELOPMENT: David James Ritchie
      • EXPANSION GAME PLAYTESTING: David Cook, Neil Hall, Henry Milanski, Deborah C. Ritchie
  8. NUMBER OF PLAYERS: 2
  9. WGA COMPLEXITY SCALE (1-10):
  10. TYPICAL PLAYING TIME (HOURS):
  11. MAP SCALE: 1 hex represents 3.2 Kilometers
  12. UNIT SCALE: Divisions, Brigades, Regiments, Battalions
  13. TIME SCALE PER TURN: 3 days
  14. NUMBER OF GAME TURNS: 13
  15. ARTICLE LISTING: Click here
  16. GAME INVENTORY: • One 22” x 34” game-map; One sheet of 200 die-cut counters; One rules folder (including the COBRA Expansion Set rules); One plastic counter tray; Two plastic, 6-sided dice; One game box; One Expansion Set (including one additional); 22 “ x 34 “ game-map, and one additional sheet of 200 die cut counters)
  17. WBC & AVALONCON HISTORY: None
  18. PBEM TOOLS:
    • A Java application VASSAL module is being created by the Wargame Academy VASSAL team (Easton, Wise, Thomson). This is on WGA's listing for debug/enhancement as needed prior to a PBEM tournament.
  19. PBEM OPPORTUNITES: Contact Wargame Academy if interested.
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  21. WARGAME ACADEMY GAME TOOLS: Web Grognard Review and Counter Inventory

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