Campaign to Stalingrad: Southern Russia 1942

About this board game

Campaign to Stalingrad: Southern Russia 1942 is a two-player wargame with a 360-minute play time, simulating the Russo-German War in southern Russia from June through December 1942.

The game presents the conflict across a detailed operational scale. Each turn represents three days, while every hex covers 16 kilometers. Most playing pieces represent divisions, creating a broad view of the forces involved in the campaign.

Alongside the divisional units, the game includes specialized Soviet formations. Soviet tank, cavalry, and mechanized corps appear in the order of battle, as do independent brigades and regiments, adding variety to the forces represented on the map.

Three scenarios cover distinct phases of the 1942 fighting:

• Fall Blau, the German summer offensive.
• Uranus, the Soviet winter offensive.
• A full campaign game covering the entire period from June to December 1942.

This structure lets players focus on a single offensive or experience the wider campaign across its complete historical timeframe. The separate scenarios also provide clear entry points into the game’s treatment of the southern Russian front.

Rated as a game of moderate complexity, Campaign to Stalingrad combines a large geographic scale with a carefully defined time scale and a mixture of major and independent military formations. Its setting, scenario range, and campaign format make it a focused simulation of one of the pivotal periods of the Russo-German War.