Beyond the Rhine

This game covers World War 2 in Northwest Europe from the end of the Allied pursuit across France through the crossing of the Rhine and advance into Germany at the end of the war. OCS Game 4-14, published in 2015. Designer: Roland LeBlanc. Developer: John Kisner.

Four maps, 6 countersheets (plus markers), scale is 1 hex = 3.5 mi/5.6 km. Campaign game is up to 70 turns, from 5 September 1944 until 29 April 1945.

Game Specific PDF's:

• Game Specific Living Rules (v1.1) (18 Oct 2019) - This set of Living Rules and the Allied/Axis Tables contain all errata, corrections, setup changes and designer modifications as of the posted date. Biggest things to look out for:  Namur becomes an Allied Arrival area, Luftflotte Reich Air Units are removed during the Axis Clean-Up Phase and many new Allied units are fueled during their initial Movement Phase.
• Allied Charts & Tables (v1.1) (11 Oct 2019)
• Axis Charts & Tables (v1.1) (11 Oct 2019)

Errata:

• BTR Errata (6 Sept 2019)  (Note: This errata has been superseded by Living Rules v1.1.  Please download those rules and use instead.  They contain all changes as of 11 Oct 2019.)
• Errata and French Variant counters for this game were included in Tunisia II and Smolensk

Counters:

• BTR Countersheet 1 front
• BTR Countersheet 1 back
• BTR Countersheet 2 front
• BTR Countersheet 2 back
• BTR Countersheet 3 front
• BTR Countersheet 3 back
• BTR Countersheet 4 front
• BTR Countersheet 4 back
• BTR Countersheet 5 front
• BTR Countersheet 5 back
• BTR Countersheet 6 front
• BTR Countersheet 6 back

Miscellany:

• BTR and Normandy – schematic of how the planned OCS Normandy maps would connect to Beyond the Rhine (15.5 MB file)
• BTR Endkampf Report – Analysis and AAR from play of the Endkampf Scenario (6.9, nothern maps)
• Chinese Language BTR Rules

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