World At War 85: Blood and Fury Expansion Operation Red Gauntlet

It's a Matter of Bridges, Comrade-Colonel

The Weser is a real river. You cannot drive a tank division across it and you cannot go around it, so the northern front comes down to who is holding which bridge and for how long.

The crossings at Minden are yours, to take or to deny.

Engineers put pontoons across under fire. A bridge takes time to build and stays vulnerable the whole time it is going up, and a pontoon destroyed at the wrong moment stalls an entire offensive. Major river hexsides stop ordinary crossings outright, so both sides have to plan a deliberate assault instead of hoping for a breakthrough.

New Ground and New Problems

Tunnel hexes and hexsides put men fighting underneath the Mittelland Canal. Dense City terrain slows armour and cuts down what your firepower is worth. Light Industrial terrain complicates every line of sight. Night fighting is expanded, with optional thermal imaging rules for those who want it.

Where It Happens

The scenarios run on directly from the ones in Blood and Fury. Assault Across the Weser at Minden South. Red Lightning at Minden North. Cracking the Neesen Bridgehead. Death from Above. And Operation Red Gauntlet itself, a large multi-map engagement that uses eight of the new maps at once.

Operation Red Gauntlet is an expansion for the World At War 85 series. You need Blood and Fury to play it, and the final scenario also needs Storming the Gap and the Storming the Gap Expansion Pack.