ATS- Advanced Tobruk System
ATS Ponyri
Kursk: Metal Gods
A Monster Eastern Front Battle of Kursk Module for ATS with new Germans, New Russians, 18 New Scenarios, New Russian Personnel, New AFVs, Revetments, and More
Ponyri Station, Russia, 7 July 1943, 06:45 Hours: the 18th Panzer division had hit the west side of Ponyri Station and breached the wire and mines, but at a high cost in men and materials. A company was pushed forward using a gully as cover, which ran up to the hill with the cemetery on the north side of Ponyri Station. The battalion commander led his men forward, accompanying his second company. Looking through his binoculars the Major determined the ground had been untouched by the massive artillery and bombardments; quietly he motioned to his officers the hand signal to advance. The Soviet entrenchments were elaborate, the Major thought, but not insurmountable. He could see his soldiers weaving through the gully and brush. There were miles and miles of trenches and wire and the mines. "Damn mines," he muttered to himself. "Yes, Herr Major," his radio operator asked. "The mines had taken over two of every three tanks lost, "The Major went on as he turned to talk to his operator. As the Major turned and rose slightly from behind his cover, he felt a bullet blast past his hear and hit his radio operator causing the left side of the man’s head to explode. "The bullet was meant for me," he thought. The radio operator slumped back. The Major crouched down, instinctively, and turned to see the source of the sniper’s bullet. Suddenly, the gully area erupted in small arms, and machine-gun fire on his men. He could see tracers coming from well-concealed positions, then explosions; mines!
This is an Advanced Tobruk System expansion game that allows players to recreate squad-level action from World War II. This expansion game, like all complete games and expansion games in the Advanced Tobruk System, uses the same ruleset from the system rulebook. Gameplay is the same for all games and expansions. It also comes with a Battlefield Walkaround booklet that points out landscape and terrain features specific to the game’s maps, and a few game-specific rules to reflect the unique circumstances the title portrays. Rules additions and changes are kept to a minimum allowing players to get started right away!
In ATS, players alternate using impulses to move and fire infantry squads, armored vehicles and Heavy Weapons, to fulfill or deny completion of a scenario’s Victory Conditions. Each scenario sets the victory conditions that one side must complete to be victorious, and the opposing player must prevent. Draws are sometimes possible. The counters have the overhead view of AFVs and vehicles debuted in wargaming with Avalon Hill’s TOBRUK. Vehicles and guns come on 3/4" counters, infantry on a 5/8" counters, and status markers remain on 1/2" counters.
Each new game or expansion in ATS drops you into a historical theater, and a specific locale within to give you an up close, and sometimes eyeball to eyeball perspective, with scenarios based or inspired by historical actions, all at 50 yards per hex.
This Expansion comes with 2 large historical linking maps covering the firefights near Ponyri Station, during the Battle of Kursk, 1943. Includes 18 scenarios on the 18th Panzer Divisions assault against Soviet fortified positions. Most scenarios play on one map. One "monster" scenario uses both maps.
ATS Ponyri component list:
- 2 linking 38" X 24" full color map sheets
- 18 scenarios on 11 cards
- 2 Sheets with 11 AFV cards
- 1 Battlefield Walkaround booklet
- 2 small counter sheets (5 rows with zb obr 39 25|A H|AA in upper left corner)
- 1 counter sheet German Personnel
- 1 counter sheet EF1
- 1 counter sheet ATS New Russian Personnel 1
- 2 cover sheets
NOT A COMPLETE GAME: Ownership of any Eastern Front ATS complete game is required to play this expansion.
This is a new, unused copy that has spent its life in a warehouse. There is some light wear around the edges and on the bag. The module is unpunched, unused and guaranteed complete.
CRIATSMET 2011 8pp booklet, 2 cover sheets, 11 scenario cards, 2 AFV card sheets, 5 Counter Sheets. 2 maps
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All other shipping (including Foreign) is dependent on the weight of the package, choice of service and distance shipped from zip code 14468. There are no additional discounts for combined shipping but we will always send a if estimated postage is less than expected.
This item would weigh just under 1.63 pounds (0.74 kg) when packaged for shipping.
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