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Great War #15 - Vimy Ridge and Beyond

By: Critical Hit

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: Advanced Tobruk System - Great War Series

Last Stocked on 7/19/2024

Product Info

Title
Great War #15 - Vimy Ridge and Beyond
Publisher
Category
Publish Year
2021
Dimensions
9x12.25x.5"
NKG Part #
2147921827
MFG. Part #
CRTGWATS-15
Type
Ziplock

Description

Welcome to Great War ATS number 15: Vimy Ridge and Beyond. This 15th module for CH Great War ATS system brings you the Canadians, showcasing some of the most sanguinary battles in WWI.

Some 619,636 Canadians enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the war, and approximately 424,000 served overseas. Of these men and women, 59,544 members of the CEF died during the war, 51,748 of them as a result of enemy action. The CEF served with distinction at Neuve Chappell, and at 2nd Ypres in 1915 they made a legendary stand to hold the line during the first gas attack on the Western Front. Posted to the Somme in September 1916, the CEF fought the sanguinary battles for Mouquet Farm and Courcelette, taking the 2nd German line that was an objective of the failed 1 July attack. Posted back to Arras in 1917 the CEF finally cracked the defenses of Vimy Ridge in a brilliant attack, which had defied both the French and British for the past 2 years. Posted back to the Ypres area in the fall of 1917, the CEF was tasked with taking Passchendaele in October and November, in appalling weather. This was the final push to that town that had been an objective since August. In abysmal weather the CEF finally captured it in November 1917. In 1918 the CEF was in the forefront of the great offensive that ground down the German army in the west, in fact, the 2nd Canadian division advanced past Mons on 11 November 1918 to finish the war where it had begun for the BEF 4 long years ago.

All of these battles were hard fought affairs, where no quarter was asked or given. Now, with this latest GWATS module you get to see if you can match the exploits of this fearsome fighting force on some of the most pitiless battlefields of World War I.

Includes:

  • 8 new scenarios - GWATS #115-122: Kitchener's Wood, A Cane and a Lionheart, Gravenstafel, Cheers for the Living, High and Dry, Sanctuary Wood, The Pimple, Courcelette.
  • 4 map boards: A51, A52, A53, A54
  • Color folio
  • Special Rules (4 pages)
  • 2 Counter sheets (1 with 176 5/8" Personnel counters, 1 with 108 3/4" AFVs/H Weapons counters and 26 1/2" marker counters)