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Cityfight: Modern Combat in the Urban Environment

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1979 · 2-3 players · 360min · weight 4.27 · 129 ratings

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ID
4436
Name
Cityfight: Modern Combat in the Urban Environment
Year
1979
Rank
12360
Min players
2
Max players
3
Playing time
360
Min playtime
360
Max playtime
360
Avg weight
4.2727
Num weights
22
Bayes avg
5.55772
Average
6.77558
Users rated
129
Num owned
569
Wanting
37
Wishing
101
Num comments
109
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (7)
Action PointsDice RollingGrid MovementHexagon GridSecret Unit DeploymentSimulationSimultaneous Action Selection
Categories (2)
Modern WarfareWargame
Description (1965 chars)

Cityfight: Modern Combat in the Urban Environment, is a super-detailed tactical simulation of post World War II combat in the urban environment. Placed in the role of platoon, company, or battalion commander, the player is faced with a wide variety of offensive or defensive missions to be carried out in a built-up area. The player must manage such specialized units as sappers, snipers, spotters, flamethrowers, and military police. Very limited intelligence with respect to the location of Enemy forces is a key characteristic of the game system. You can name it "double-blind" due to the fact that you just manage your own troops on your own map while your opponent is managing his forces on his own map. The opponent's forces have to be detected and then be marked with "known/unknown"-markers on your own map. Twenty scenarios include historical conflicts ranging from 1956 to 1979, and hypothetical situations involving NATO, Soviet, Chinese, and irregular forces. A comprehensive guide to scenario design is included. [Note: The actual name of the game, as given in the rules, is "Cityfight." People often call it "City-Fight" because the name had to be hyphenated on the front of the box cover, and is also hyphenated on the box sides and on the maps where there is no such imperative.] Firefight: Modern U.S. and Soviet Small Unit Tactics is a similar game utilizing the same base system but without the many complications introduced in Cityfight. Game Scale: Game Turn: 20 seconds Hex: 55 feet / 16.67 meters Units: Individual Infantry & Vehicles to Fireteams Game Inventory: Two identical 17 x 22" four color mapsheets Five dual-side printed countersheets (1400 1/2" counters - 567 combat & 833 markers) Two 64-page Cityfight rulebook One 40-page Cityfight TO&E, Charts & Tables booklet One 8-page Charts & Tables booklet Four 6-sided dice Solitaire Playability: Very Low Complexity Level: Variable Players: 2 or more Playing Time: 2-100 hours

LLM v2 (wide)

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LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.