The Battle for Meiktila, March 1945
 

A Master Stroke: The Battle for Meiktila, March 5-14, 1945

http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_f...terstroke.html

Prolific game designer Paul Rohrbaugh designed A Master Stroke: The Battle for Meiktila, March 5-14, 1945 to cover the battle in Burma that resulted in the final liberation of Mandalay and Rangoon. Not a fight in the impenetrable jungle, this was a mobile battle featuring tanks in the armor-friendly central plain of the country.

What follows is a complete desktop-published board wargame; all that you the player have to do is download, print, assemble and provide the six-sided die, plus a coffee cup to hold the activation markers. What you do not have to provide is money, as A Master Stroke is 100% free.

The 11" x 17" map is in three sections, so that anyone with a printer can put it together without searching for a tabloid-capable printer. They also overlap for ease of assembly. For those who do want to print it in one piece, there is a second file, consisting solely of a one-piece map, that can be downloaded separately from the game. It is wholly optional though.

These are big files. The game is 8.6 MB, and the map is 5.13 MB.