Torgau (wargame)

In November 1760, Field Marshal Leopold Josef Graf Daun arrayed his imperial Austrian forces in a strong defensive position on a hilltop near the town of Torgau in Saxony.

Frederick the Great sent his four corps to attack different points of the Austrian perimeter, but due to communications problems, these were not well-coordinated, and Prussian losses mounted.

[5] Torgau was designed by Frank Chadwick, and released as a zip lock bag game by GDW in 1974.

In the November 1975 issue of Airfix Magazine, Bruce Quarrie commented, "A considerable degree of sophistication is achieved with simple rules and devices, and after the opening moves [...] the game becomes fast and exciting.

"[6] In a 1976 poll conducted by Simulations Publications to determine the most popular board wargames in North America, Torgau was rated very highly, placing an excellent 7th out of 202 games.

He noted that "Command control problems plague Frederick as he marches onto the battlefield, with a difficult dilemma between a safe approach and a fast one."

"[5] In Issue 8 of the UK wargaming magazine Phoenix, Tony Dinsdale characterized the stacking limit rule as "quite revolutionary and requires some thought."

Freeman questioned the overworking of the rules, noting that "Torgau has a wealth of design ideas but some poor development".