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Canadian Crucible: Brigade Fortress at Norrey
Subject material for the TCS was varied (though concentrated on the Second World War, with one exception set in the first Gulf War). The first dozen games in the series, published between 1989 and 2000, covered both well known battles (such as the OMAHA Beach landings, the Hürtgen Forest, the tank battle at Stonne, Guadalcanal, Maleme airfield on Crete, and the Battle of the Bulge) as well as more arcane subjects (the German invasion of Leros, British troops at Anzio, Spanish troops in the siege of Leningrad, and the Russo-Finnish War of 1939). Just two more titles followed in the new century, in 2005 and 2009. With sixteen titles (including Force Eagle's War, the only title not set in the the Second World War) in print over a fifteen year publishing history of the system, TCS had not covered the Commonwealth forces in Northwest Europe. In 2013, the 16th game in the TCS line was published, featuring Canadian troops in Normandy. Background Game designer Larry Brien notes that:
As further background, Brien writes:
The Game Canadian Crucible depicts actions between units of the 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade and units of the 12th SS "Hitler Youth" Panzer Division in the period 8 June to 11 June 1944. Three Battle Honours were awarded to the Canadian units that participated in these actions:
The game includes eight shorter scenarios and a full-length campaign game that makes full use of all the components included in the product. Scenarios The scenarios depict smaller parts of the overall brigade action. The map depicts terrain west of Caen including the villages of Rots, Le Hamel, Norrey-en-Bessin, Bretteville-l'Orgueilleuse, Le Mesnil-Patry and Putot-en-Bessin.
Campaign Game The Campaign Game (described in the rule book as Scenario 5.7) depicts the entire span of events in this area using the 7th Brigade order of battle and has several optional lengths:
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The
Tactical Combat Series (TCS) made its debut in 1989 with the game
Bloody 110. The series, published originally by The Gamers and
currently by Multi-Man Publishing (MMP), provides a common set of rules
for brigade-level tactical engagements fought out at a games scale of
125 metres per hex, 20 minutes per turn and unit counters depicting
platoons and individual vehicles. The common rules are supplemented in
each game of the series by historically accurate maps, orders of battle,
and special rules to depict actual engagements ranging from a few hours
(as in The Bloody Beach: Omaha, TCS 3) to several days.
Each game includes multiple stand-alone scenarios as well as campaign
games which link play over several days of game time.
