The game is set in the World War II era with units representing individual vehicles and artillery or squads of infantry.

The system was first released in 2005 and was produced by Avalon Hill, a division of the game company Wizards of the Coast, which itself is a subsidiary of Hasbro.

This game follows the same basic concept of collectible miniatures played on a paper map, using Six-sided dice to determine battle results.

The scale is 1/100 and the instruction manual has the unit statistics to make them compatible with ground forces games.

Because of players' and fans' complaints (and possibly for commercial reasons as well), Avalon Hill has been re-scaling vehicles to 15mm since the introduction of Set VI (1939–1945).

Writing for Armchair General, Tim McCormley admitted that "many people will be turned off on this game because it’s a 'collectible.'"

McCormley thought the quality of the miniatures was average, commenting, "The figures themselves are reasonable, basic plastic minis from China or wherever.

If you’re one of those people (like myself) that seem to have angered the 'Gods of Dice' for some arcane reason, you can end up getting creamed no matter how good your tactics are.

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