Minsk '41 (1981)

Japanese game covering operation Barbarossa.

Division level with single step units - Russian units are back printed with an untried side similar to system pioneered in SPI's Panzergruppe Guderian. CRT uses an AE-AR-C-EX-DR-DE range of results.

105 combat units, 3 marker counters, 1 17" x 34" map. Rules are 8 pages in Japanese with designer's notes and examples.

Originally designed by Rec Co. and published by Epoch. And then reprinted by Kokusai-Tsushin in Command Magazine Japan #57, along with 1942.
Japan Wargame Classics edition, which was published in 2019, includes a bonus game Riga '41. Connecting Minsk with Riga is possible.