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8th Army: Operation Crusader – The Winter Battles for Tobruk, 1941

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1984 · 2-2 players · 240min · weight 2.86 · 134 ratings

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ID
6814
Name
8th Army: Operation Crusader – The Winter Battles for Tobruk, 1941
Year
1984
Rank
11776
Min players
2
Max players
2
Playing time
240
Min playtime
120
Max playtime
240
Avg weight
2.8571
Num weights
21
Bayes avg
5.56399
Average
6.77858
Users rated
134
Num owned
403
Wanting
7
Wishing
29
Num comments
77
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (8)
Dice RollingEventsGrid MovementHexagon GridHidden MovementMovement PointsSecret Unit DeploymentSimulation
Categories (2)
WargameWorld War II
Description (565 chars)

8th Army: Operation Crusader - The Winter Battles for Tobruk, 1941, uses battalion/regiment scale units, the game depicts British attempts to relieve the Commonwealth garrison at Tobruk. 8th Army was one of three "double-blind" land warfare wargames released by GDW in the eighties. The game system used two maps so that both players were "in the dark" as to the disposition of the opposing forces at the start of the game. The game system does not require a referee, but instead relies on the honor system. Also published in Command Magazine Japan #53 in 2003.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

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.