From: Roberto Chiavini <mumaye@libero.it>
Subject: One review more

Sacrifice in the East (Minden Games)

One of the two offers from Panzerschreck number 6, this small game, designed by James Meldrum, is a 
two players simulation of the final months of WWII in the East. Object of the historical game is Berlin (the 
owner of the city after 10 turns is the winner of the game), but there are a plethora of variants and scenarios 
to make this game interesting for several replays (there is also a bid systems to make competitive play more 
feasable).

The map is simple, with graphics reduced to the essentials, and even the counters are not very attractive (as 
usual for a Panzerschreck game), but functional: each unit is rated for attack – defense – movement, and 
there are units for both the normal scenario and the variant ones.

Sequence of play is replacement – movement – combat, first for the Soviet player, than for the German 
one. There are simple rules for ZOCs (that stop movement for the turn, but are not locking), combat is 
regulated by a CRT with retreat and elimination results, with combined arms and terrain giving column shifts 
for both attacker and defender.

The historical scenario is probably too simple and too one-sided to be interesting, but with the variant chits 
and the bidding system the game could become more replayable. All in all, a small, simple game, worth a 
few trys.

I rate the game 6 in a 1-10 scale