VaeVictis 189 - Game issue

SYNOPSIS

NEWS HEXAGONS

• In fours to Heaven
• First Man in Rome
• jena
• Kawanakajima
• NW supplement 4
• Modern Tactics English
• Imperial Borders
• Trying Men’s soul
• Il Trono di Carte
• Cicéron-Triumvirat
• Tiger Wings
• Coast Watchers
• ASL journal
• Le Franc Tireur
• Command at Sea 5th Ed
• On to Berlin
• Bronx, etc.

BOARDGAMES

• Albuera
• Thunderbolt
• Coalitions
• Next War Taiwan
• Cuius Regio / Thirty Years War of Misery
• For the Motherland
• EU Defying Destiny
• Warfare: Modern Tactical Combat

HOBBY

• Quatre jeux sur la Hongrie 1956
• CR OFJH
• Cohors Cthulhu 

FIGURINES

• Bolt Action V3 armies of Commonwealth + French armies
• La forêt
• Scénario Tranchées et Barricades
• Les blindés pour Le dernier quart d’heure
• Alexandre le Grand Episode 1
• Campagne Spectre Operations Episode 1
• Epic Zulus
• Grenades and Sharpened Spades
• Tanks and Troops,
• On Bloody Ground
• Oathmark 2e Ed
• The Devil's Wind, supplément K’47,  etc

SCENARIOS

• ASL and M44

ART OF WAR

• Hungary 1956

WARGAME with die-cut counters: Budapest 1956

Budapest 1956: The Men of Corvin 
On October 23, 1956, Hungarian students marched in support of Poland; the communist government allowed the march and the subsequent gathering in Parliament Square, but ultimately, tanks fired into the crowd. The uprising began with the siege of the Hungarian radio station, the seizure of weapons from police stations and barracks, and the toppling of the giant statue of Stalin. Within days, the city rose up and organized itself to face the Soviet intervention. On October 30, the Russian army withdrew... only to return in force on November 3, crushing the rebellion with fire and steel; the repression was bloody. 
Rather than simulating the entire revolution—which offered the insurgents no chance of success—we chose to focus on the Budapest district that put up the fiercest resistance: Corvin, in Pest’s 8th District. 
Budapest 1956: The Men of Corvin simulates these clashes from late October and early November at a tactical scale through a series of chronological scenarios. Although the Hungarian revolutionaries stood no chance against Russian might and the West's non-intervention, the initial battles went in the insurgents' favor, and even the final crushing of the revolt in November proved difficult for the Soviets. 
Budapest 1956: The Men of Corvin is designed for players seeking a short yet faithful simulation of these events. Across four scenarios, players will relive the intense combat for Budapest’s Corvin district.

• Complexity: 4/10
• Solo playability: 5/10
• Duration: 30 minutes to 1.5 hours, depending on the scenario
• 1 turn = 1 hour
• 1 unit = 1 infantry section, 1 tank platoon, or 1 self-propelled gun platoon
• Approximately 150m per zone