Turning Point: Stalingrad
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Turning Point: Stalingrad is a board game published in 1989 by Avalon Hill.{{Cite web |title=Turning Point: Stalingrad |url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/759/turning-point-stalingrad |access-date=2021-12-18 |website=BoardGameGeek |language=en-US}}
Publication history
It was the third game in Avalon Hill's area movement series of detailed simulation wargames.{{Cite web |title=Series: Area-impulse (Avalon Hill) {{!}} Family {{!}} BoardGameGeek |url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/18538/series-area-impulse-avalon-hill |access-date=2021-12-18 |website=boardgamegeek.com |language=en-US}}
Gameplay
The game simulates the strategic situation in the Battle of Stalingrad during the period 13 September 1942 – 3 October 1942.
Reception
Ellis Simpson reviewed Turning Point: Stalingrad for Games International magazine, and gave it 5 stars out of 5, and stated that "Of the year's wargame releases, this is my favourite and deserves to be yours too. Each playing is different, each turn within a game is different and no two games are ever going to be the same."{{Cite journal |last=Simpson |first=Ellis |date=September–October 1989 |title=Warames |journal=Games International |issue=9 |pages=34–36}}
Reviews
- "The Year's Best Games" in Games #101{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/Games-Magazine-Deluxe-December_January-1990-images/page/n71/mode/2up | title=Games Magazine [December 1989/January 1990] | date=December 1989 }}
- Casus Belli #55{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/casus-belli-055/page/n21/mode/2up | title=Casus Belli #055 | date=1990 }}
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Category:European theatre World War II board wargames
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