Baltic Gap

Baltic Gap: Summer 1944, depicts the Soviet drive into Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania during the summer of 1944. OCS Game 4-11, published in 2009. Designer: John Kisner & Hans Mielants.

2 maps, 3 countersheets (plus markers), scale is 1 hex = 5 mi/8 km. Campaign game is 38 turns, from 26 June 1944 to 29 Oct 1944.

Game Specific PDF's:

• Game Specific Living Rules (v2.3a) posted 3 Mar 2021.  Refinements to September 2019 Living Rules.  Key updates are a process added to the Victory Conditions to make skill differences somewhat self-balancing, new house rule options, German reinforcement arrival hexes, and updates to some of the scenarios (if you downloaded the v2.3a dated 22 Feb 2021, the only difference is a corrected double sentence.)

Errata:

• BG Errata (20 June 2017) (Note: the Living Rules have some later updates not reflected in this errata.)
• Errata counters for this game were included in GBII (2011 printing), The Blitzkrieg Legend, and Special Ops #3.

Counters:

• BG Countersheet 1 front
• BG Countersheet 1 back
• BG Countersheet 2 front
• BG Countersheet 2 back
• BG Countersheet 3 front
• BG Countersheet 3 back

Miscellany:

• Campaign Notes – additional Designer notes
• Scenario Pack – Seven new scenarios for the game
• BG Blog – Designer John Kisner kept a blog during the game’s design
• Forward Detachments – Article from Special Ops #3 (2012) describing a mechanism for modeling the Soviet late-war practice of creating mobile forward detachments for Infantry divisions which operated up to 50 miles ahead of the main body during deep operations.
• 2012 Special Ops Countersheet – Errata counters for GBII, Case Blue, Baltic Gap and Forward Detachments per the Special Ops #3 article.
• Designer John Kisner annotated each half countersheet with "Six Things" regarding the units represented:
  • Countersheet 1L
  • Countersheet 1R
  • Countersheet 2L
  • Countersheet 2R
  • Countersheet 3L
  • Countersheet 3R
• Peter Lindahl created an animated .gif of a Baltic Gap game in progress, link is here.
• Baltic Gap Seaborne Assault Option, article by designer John Kisner published in Special Ops #1 (2011).
• Baltic Gap AAR "You gotta know when to hold 'em" on Boardgamegeek.

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