Battles for the Ardennes

[2] In 1994, Decision Games acquired the rights to Battles for Ardennes, and published a new revised edition with streamlined rules.

It's a true state of the art masterpiece, which at one swoop has moved Danny Parker to the front ranks of the designer-dom.

Looking at the games individually: In Issue 15 of Imagine, Peter O'Toole reviewed the 1983 TSR reprint, and had many positive things to say.

He also found the air rules detailed, noting that "marching units suffer severely from strafing planes."

He was impressed by the quality of the game components, except for the new cover art, which he called "terrible", noting it had "a jolly Christmas Tree worked into the title."

He concluded with a strong recommendation, saying "Ardennes provides a stimulating package for die-hard tankers and beginners to the field.

"[2] In Issue 65 of Fire & Movement, Jeff Petraska commented, "Game play is fairly simple and straight-forward, with nothing really innovative.

"[7] Writing a retrospective analysis for spigames.net, Paul Sheppard thought that the victory conditions perhaps placed too much emphasis on the capture of towns.

The choice of scenarios, the variations in strategy, the colourful presentation, the differing unit types all contribute to make this [quadrigame] one of the best.