Critical Reception
The original game was criticized for poor box art and research; later versions received higher praise.
In a review in "The Best of Board Wargaming" (1981) Tom Oleson praised the game's "satisfying realism", while criticizing some points of obscurity on the map (e.g. roads which nick the corner of a hexagon), the crudeness with which the Allied "thermonuclear" airstrikes of May 1944 are simulated and an anomaly whereby weak enemy units left near the front line can be destroyed in combat, thus generating extra exploitation movement for the victorious attacker.
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