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The Gamer's / MMPs popular series of wargames simulates 20th century battles at levels ranging from battalions to divisions.

"Operational Combat Series (OCS) games simulate campaign-level combat from 1900 to the mid-1950s. The series goal is to allow a sophisticated study of historical events while maintaining mechanical simplicity. Every facet of modern combat is modeled."
(from MMP webpage)

1. The Games

  1. Guderian's Blitzkrieg: The Drive on Moscow (reprinted and revised as Guderian's Blitzkrieg II) - 1992
  2. Enemy at the Gates (reprinted and expanded by Case Blue) - 1994
  3. Tunisia (reprinted and revised as Tunisia II) - 1995
  4. Hube's Pocket (reprinted and expanded as The Third Winter: The Battle for the Ukraine September 1943-April 1944) - 1995
  5. DAK: The Campaign in North Africa, 1940-1942 (reprinted and revised as DAK2: The Campaign in North Africa, 1940-1942) - 1997
  6. Burma: The Campaign in Northern Burma - 1999/2008
  7. Sicily: Triumph and Folly (reprinted and revised as Sicily II) - 2000
  8. Guderian's Blitzkrieg II - 2001/2011
  9. Korea: The Forgotten War - 2003/2014
  10. DAK2: The Campaign in North Africa, 1940-1942 - 2004
  11. Case Blue - 2007
  12. Baltic Gap: Summer 1944 - 2009
  13. The Blitzkrieg Legend: The Battle for France, 1940 - 2012
  14. Reluctant Enemies: Operation Exporter - 2014
  15. Beyond the Rhine: The Campaign for Northwest Europe - 2015
  16. Tunisia II - 2016
  17. Sicily II - 2016
  18. Smolensk: Barbarossa Derailed - 2018
  19. Hungarian Rhapsody: The Eastern Front in Hungary - 2020
  20. The Third Winter: The Battle for the Ukraine September 1943-April 1944 - 2021

Future plans 2022 (see English and French version on OCS Update 30 March 2022)

  • Crimea (Crimean Campaign, 1941-42 and 43-44) - Currently in proofreading and final development
  • Luzon (Dec 1941-Jan 1942) - Currently in development
  • Cross-Channel Attack (Normandy June - Sept 44) - Currently in development
  • Forgotten Battles (Army Group Center, Sept 43-Apr 44) - Currently in development
  • The Hero City (Army Group North, Sept 43-Apr 44) - Currently in development
  • A Season in Hell (Kursk and East Front Summer Campaign, June 43-Sept 43) - Currently in design & initial playtesting
  • Czechoslovakia 1938 - Design submitted, in development queue
  • Bagration - Currently in design
  • Italy - Currently in design
  • Sea Lion - Currently in design
  • Malaya - Currently in design
  • Prussia 1945 - Currently in design
  • Changsha - Currently in design and initial playtesting

Very early design

  • Greece 1940-1941
  • Anvil Dragoon 1944
  • Operation Torch 1942
  • Greece and Crete 1940-1941
  • Shanghai-Nanking 1937-1938

The Third Winter, Forgotten Battles, The Hero City and Crimea can be played as one massive combined campaign, called Ost Front.

2. Links

2.1 Weblinks

2.2 BGG series page

2.3 Geekblogs

2.4 Geeklists

2.5 Twitter

  • OCS on Twitter (#operationalcombatseries, #mmp, #multimanpublishing)

2.6 Discord

  • Yes there's Discord channel for OCS Gamers.
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