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Operation Crusader (18 November – 30 December 1941) was a military operation of the Western Desert campaign during World War II by the British Eighth Army (with Commonwealth, Indian and Allied contingents) against the Axis forces (German and Italian) in North Africa commanded by Generalleutnant (Lieutenant-General) Erwin Rommel.
Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) was a wargame and role-playing game publisher from 1973 to 1996. [1] Many of their games are now carried by other publishers. [ 2 ]
In Issue 30, the magazine expanded to 64 pages. In Issue 35 (1988), under new editor Michelle Sturgeon, [1] the magazine expanded to cover the entire genre of science fiction role-playing games rather than focusing solely on GDW games, [2]: 167 including Shadowrun by FASA and Paranoia by West End Games. [1]
Rodger B. MacGowan (born 1948) is an artist, game developer, art director and magazine publisher who has been active in the board wargame industry since the 1970s. MacGowan is a prolific artist of cover art for wargames, and the wargaming magazine he founded, Fire & Movement, won the Charles S. Roberts Award several times while under his editorial control.
The Battle of Point 175 was a military engagement of the Western Desert Campaign that took place during Operation Crusader from 29 November to 1 December 1941, during the Second World War. Point 175 is a small rise just south of the Trigh Capuzzo, a desert track east of Sidi Rezegh and south of Zaafran.
On 18 November, north of Bir el Gubi, Commonwealth forces started a new offensive, Operation Crusader.On 19 November in the Action at Bir el Gubi (November 1941) the 132nd Armored Division "Ariete" repulsed a British attack and on 23 November a great tank battle, Totensonntag (Sunday of the Dead), took place in the desert.
Loren K. Wiseman created a magazine in 1979 to support Traveller, with Game Designers' Workshop publishing The Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society (JTAS), which Wiseman would continue to develop as its editor. [1]: 55 J. Andrew Keith wrote so much material for JTAS that he used the pseudonyms John Marshal and Keith Douglass (although a ...
Operation Crusader was designed to simulate the historical World War II military operation of the same name (pictured in November 1941).. Starting with the hire of producer Jim Rose in December 1992, [1] [2] Avalon Hill began an effort to revive its computer game branch in response to flagging board wargame sales during the 1990s.