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Command Decision: World War II Miniature Wargaming [BOX SET]
GAME COMPONENTS:
• One rules book
• One data chart booklet
• One organization booklet
• One campaign booklet
• One rules summary folder
• Four game reference charts
• One sheet of markers

"The essence of modern combined arms operations is movement. Tactical situations change rapidly. Directions of attack are shifted. Reserves are brought forward and committed to get an attack rolling again. It takes a set of rules specifically designed to work at the operational (battalion/regiment) level to capture the operational flavor of mobile warfare. Command Decision is designed with exactly that in mind.
Realism and accuracy are important to a historical miniatures game, but the designer's job is to isolate the most important aspects of realism. If a game is technically accurate but is very slow-playing, it fails to simulate the most important aspect of mobile warfare — speed. Command Decision is designed to be, and is, played in real time. The tactical situation develops on the gaming table at the same tempo as on the battlefield, and you have to make your decisions under the same time constraints as your historical counterpart. No more spending forty-five minutes on a turn which represents one minute of real time!
Command Decision contains everything you need to get started in World War II miniatures gaming except the miniatures. It is designed to be played either with 1:285 micro-scale miniatures, 15mm scale, or 20mm (HO, 1:76, 1:72) scale miniatures. The basic rules present a comprehensive but fast-playing system for mobile combined arms ground combat in the decade of the forties. Advanced rules layer on additional considerations such as weather, paradrops, tank repair, resupply, and air power.
The national data charts present complete game information on every important weapon system used by the U.S.. Great Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union, and Italy during the war. The organization booklet provides a year-by-year look at the infantry, armored and motorized organizations of those belligerents and presents the information in terms of game organizations. As a reference source alone. Command Decision is invaluable.
Most miniatures players enjoy fighting out campaigns, but few playable campaign systems have ever been published. Command Decision includes a complete historical campaign, the Battle of the Stolberg Corridor, fought in September of 1944 on the western front. The campaign booklet includes complete orders of battle for both sides, which include both the historic unit identifications and arrival dates as well as their strength and organization in game terms. The forces employed are very manageable. A campaign map shows the terrain over which the battle was fought. Six separate scenarios from the campaign are included, each of which makes an interesting table-top battle, and campaign rules allow players to refight the entirety of this closely-matched contest."

1986 ... GDW 730 ... ISBN 0943580137

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Command Decision, 2nd Edition: 20th Century Miniature Wargaming [BOX SET]
"Command Decision contains everything you need to get started except the miniatures and the tabletop:
- A 96-page rules booklet, covering all important aspects of modern combat from 1939 to 1992, including armor, infantry, aircraft (both fixed and rotary wing), airmobile, and amphibious rules. In addition, a six-scenario sample campaign (Stolberg Corridor) in included, along with rules for running your own campaigns.
- Armies of World War II, Volume I, a 224 page book containing divisional tables of organization and equipment for the major powers of World War II: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the USSR.
- A National Data Charts booklet, containing game statistics and data on every major weapon used by the eight nations covered in Armies of World War II, Volume I.
- Two counter sheets, containing marker chits for Command Decision's innovative command system, morale markers, and status chits.

In the 1930s, many of the world's military thinkers were divided into two schools of thought: infantrymen who felt that infantry was still supreme and should be supported by small units of tanks, and tank men who thought that large formations of tanks would dominate the battlefield. Neither was right. In 1939, the Germans unleashed a new offensive not based exclusively on infantry or tanks, but their integration into a balanced combined arms team. The principle of combined arms has dominated doctrinal thinking ever since.
Command Decision is a set of miniatures rules which enables players to refight operational-level combined arms engagements from 1939 to 1992. It shows the importance of each element in a fast-playing format that uniquely captures the pace and tempo of modern mobile combat. Speed of decision is emphasized, and the player who can make the right decisions fastest will achieve victory.
Designed for use with, HO, 1:200, or 1:300 scale figures and vehicles. Command Decision uses a platoon scale (infantry stands represent platoons of 40-50 soldiers, vehicle models represent platoons of 4-5 vehicles)."

1992 ... Frank Chadwick ... GDW 7400 ... ISBN 1558781048

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Bastogne: A Complete Historical Miniatures Campaign
"On December 16, 1944, the German Army unleashed a massive offensive in the Ardennes forest of Belgium. Known as The Battle of the Bulge, this epic struggle is remembered as one of the U.S. Army's greatest victories.
Essential to the final U.S. victory was the stubborn defense of the critical road junction at Bastogne. Defended by the 101st Airborne Division, the town was besieged by a Volksgrenadier division and two of Germany's best divisions: 2nd Panzer and Panzer Lehr. Called upon to surrender, the commander of the 101st, Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe, answered with the single word, "Nuts!" Reinforced by Combat Command B of the 10th Armored Division and other units, the Americans fought back German attacks from every direction. The Germans for their part were torn between the need to take Bastogne and the need to get mobile troops to the Meuse immediately.
GDW now presents the defense of Bastogne as a campaign module for Command Decision, its World War II miniatures rules. This module contains everything needed to fight the campaign with strategic map moves and then resolve the resulting encounters as miniatures games. All you provide are the miniatures.
Bastogne makes a particularly good campaign. Since this was an encirclement battle, no rules are needed for units on either flank of the battlefield: there are effectively none. The campaign lasts from the start of the German offensive until the relief of the town by Patton's 3rd Army from the south. Thus, the game covers periods of both intense positional warfare and rapid armored breakthroughs. Both sides have a wide variety of troop types and troop quality, and most equipment types in use in 1944 are represented, from M-18 tank destroyers to massive German Jagdpanthers.
A number of new organizations for Command Decision are included as well, notably, some German non-divisional armored units such as the Jagdpanther battalion and assault gun brigade. For the U.S. there are corps artillery and engineer battalions. U.S. divisional artillery battalion organizations have been changed to reflect the greater manpower in the units and to give them the capability for self-defense that they demonstrated numerous times during the battle. New equipment ratings include the U.S. 4.5" towed gun and artillery tractor and the German 75mm and 88mm Feld Kanone (AT guns mounted in field gun carriages)."

1987 ... Frank Chadwick ... 48 pages ... GDW 731 ... ISBN 0943580315