Korps Commander, or "Korps Commander: The Road to Berlin" is a set of micro-armour Miniature wargaming rules designed by Bruce Rea Taylor and Andy Ashton and published in the UK by Tabletop games, August 1988.
Road to Berlin is a set of rules in the Korps Commander Series, which will eventually cover all periods of warfare at a level which will allow large battles and campaigns to be fought.
The series aim is to utilise the techniques of boardgaming whilst retaining the flavour of miniature gaming.The Road to Berlin was the first and last of the Korps Commander publications.
For those who have played OMG the most significant difference is that the ground scale and time scales have been halved due to the shorter effective ranges of direct fire weapons, although the only noticeable difference is the range of artillery.Bruce Rea Taylor gives a special mention to the Wallasey Wargames Club in the Introduction of the Korps Commander Rules.
We would like to acknowledge the help of the Wallasey Wargames Club in the preparation and playtesting of these rules.The primary significance of these rules was it was one of the first game systems which used a scale of 1-2 base(s) per company.
However, apart from this, the rules attempted to use a 1 Base = 1 company scale, which allowed players to command one, or more, divisions.
In practice the detail and complexity of the rules precluded any possibility of playing a corps level game within a reasonable time frame.
Bruce Rea Taylor and Andy Ashton published Corps Commander in July 1986.
While Bruce Rea Taylor published a number of additional books after August 1988, they were all dated after his death on 3 March 1989.
For comparison purposes the earlier Corps Commander used a Ground scale of 10 cm = 1 km (1:10000) and a Daylight Game Turn = 1 hour.
Corps/Korps Commander resolved this issue by giving each a Base a value, representing the number of common vehicles or guns.