Lets follow the year of 1943 in WWII, and take a look at what titles used to cover off on the major events of ’43. All AARS future and past will be posted here to log our progress thru the war.
You can see past Years here: 1939 , 1940, 1941, 1942
January 2, 1943 – Allies take Buna in New Guinea.
January 14-24 – Casablanca conference between Churchill and Roosevelt. During the conference, Roosevelt announces the war can end only with “unconditional German surrender.”
January 22, 1943 – Allies defeat Japanese at Sanananda on New Guinea.
January 29-30 – Battle of Rennell Island – Pacific Theater
February 1, 1943 – Japanese begin evacuation of Guadalcanal.
See Pacific War game play of the Guadalcanal campaign.
February 2, 1943 – Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler’s armies.
SPI Battle for Stalingrad: https://wp.me/p3euWn-75VFxh
Operation Star,
I think I have a OCS scenario for this. Plus the Battle for Stalingrad counter Offensive in Fortress Stalingrad from S&T 114 looks into this also.
February 19-25 – Battle of Kasserine Pass – North Africa
Should I play a special title here? Ugh…maybe I can find a small title. Maybe a scenario from a larger game? OCS?
February 19-March 15 – Third Battle of Kharkov – Eastern Front
March Rzhev-Vyazma Offensive
March 2-4 – Battle of the Bismarck Sea – Pacific Theater
March 20-28 – Montgomery’s Eighth Army breaks through the Mareth Line in Tunisia.
April 18 – Operation Vengeance (Yamamoto Shot Down) – Pacific Theater
April 19-May 16 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising – Eastern Front
May 10, 1943 – U.S. Troops invade Attu in the Aleutian Islands
Hell Frozen – LNLT – To be played.
May 17 – Operation Chastise (Dambuster Raids) – European Theater
July 9-August 17 – Invasion of Sicily – Mediterranean
Live video play series starts here: https://wp.me/p3euWn-75VGg2 , note that I do make many, many mistakes playing live, its a bit of a brain burner doing this, this way…:)
We ended up playing Sicily and then Sicily II back to back. Sadly the Sicily AAR was lost, only images remain, which are posted to a facebook folder on the Bigboard.
July 24-August 3 – Operation Gomorrah (Firebombing Hamburg) – European Theater
August 6/7, 1943 – Battle of Vella Gulf in the Solomon Islands.
August 23, 1943 – Soviet troops recapture Kharkov.
August 25, 1943 – Allies cocomplete the occupation of New Georgia
August 17 – Schweinfurt-Regensburg Raid – European Theater
September 3-16 – Invasion of Italy – European Theater
Planned title: Anzio reprint Avalon Hill
September 26 – Operation Jaywick – Pacific Theater
October – Battle of Lenino
November 6, 1943 – Russians recapture Kiev in the Ukraine.
November 2 – Battle of Empress Augusta Bay – Pacific Theater
November 20-23 – Battle of Tarawa – Pacific Theater
SPI Tarawa I only played a few turns of this, so sadly I cannot report more, nor do I appear to have secured images.
November 20-23 – Battle of Makin – Pacific Theater
December 26 – Battle of the North Cape – Atlantic Ocean
December 24-26 – Soviets launch offensives on the Ukrainian front.
Ukraine ’43 will fit nicely here! Even tho it seems this is set in August?