Cover art for The Cossacks Are Coming!: The Tannenberg Campaign, 1914

The Cossacks Are Coming!: The Tannenberg Campaign, 1914

1982 · BGG
Avg rating
6.94
Bayes rating
5.53
Weight
4.27 (Heavy)
Players
2
Playtime
6 hr
Ratings count
56

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Description

The Cossacks are Coming! is an operational simulation of the World War I Tannenberg campaign in which Russian and German armies battled during August and September of 1914. The game uses weekly turns (each composed of a variable number of impulses), a map scale of five miles per hex, and battalion to brigade level units to portray the conflict. Aspects of the campaign covered by the rules include artillery, limited intelligence, reconnaissance, command control, supply, morale, and prisoners of war.



600 counters

Mechanics

Dice Rolling Hexagon Grid Simulation

Themes

World War I

Publishers

People's War Games

Designers

David Bolt