Grand Operational Simulation Series

Atlantic Wall¶

The SPI ver­sion of At­lantic Wall was foun­da­tion­al in my wargam­ing his­to­ry. But since solo­ing the air/beach land­ings and a cou­ple turns of this GOSS ver­sion; I can’t see my self ev­ery play­ing the SPI ver­sion again.

The air­borne land­ing FoW me­chan­ic is bril­liant. I en­joy both rule set­s’ beach land­ing sub­sys­tem­s. I will say, holy crap, noth­ing since SPR has hit me with a sense of what a hor­rif­ic hellscape Om­a­ha Beach must have been. At the same time, the sim­ple “lead­er un­pins unit so it can move” sparks in my mind’s eye a nar­ra­tive of sol­diers do­ing what needs do­ing in the face of ex­treme ad­ver­si­ty.

As to the rest of the game; GOSS 2020 is crisp, tight and crunchy de­li­cious. It pro­vides a sim­i­lar en­dor­phin rush teas­ing through its rules and puz­zling out how to ap­ply them suc­cess­ful­ly as does do­ing much the same with soft­ware code.