Unconditional Surrender

Unconditional Surrender! is a strategic level game covering the World War II European Theater. Players make the political decisions and control the military forces of the Axis, Western, and Soviet factions which fought for European dominance and survival. With its emphasis on force projection and decision making, players remain focused on the big picture of managing the military fronts and political opportunities that arise or they make of their choosing. Through the use of simple mechanics and low on-map counter density, players easily handle the strategic action without a myriad of complicated subsystems or tall stacks of counters. Though the focus is on the big picture, Unconditional Surrender! still delivers historical detail. Each country in the game has an historical army level order of battle, and the relative strength of its economy and national will to fight are effectively and simply modeled. Also represented are such World War II events as airdrops, Free Forces, jets, naval evacuation, partisans, radar, railroad artillery guns, and ULTRA; all which are nicely woven into the game's core mechanics for ease of play Unconditional Surrender! has many scenarios ranging from quick playing individual campaigns to longer ones covering up to the entire war. 2-4 players 30 minutes to 50 hour play time