No Retreat!: Polish & French Fronts

About this board game

No Retreat!: Polish & French Fronts is a two-player World War II strategy game covering the 1940 French campaign and the 1939 Polish Campaign, with a play time of approximately 180 minutes.

On the French Front, one player commands the Allied French and British forces while the other leads Germany. Players maneuver Army and Corps units across hexes representing roughly 30 kilometers, with each turn covering four days of real time, except the opening two-day turn.

The game’s card-assisted systems create constantly changing tactical puzzles around movement, units, and battles. Historical and alternative Plan cards shape each side’s objectives, while unexpected developments ensure that the outcome is never entirely predictable.

• French Front: Fight the May–June 1940 campaign, including regular, historical, and simulation games.
• Operation Dynamo: Attempt to evacuate the British Expeditionary Corps from Dunkirk or break through to the main French Army.
• Polish Front: Recreate the September 1939 campaign through regular, historical, and alternative-history scenarios.
• Fog of War: The Polish mini-game uses hidden information to reflect inexperienced forces and increase replayability.

The Polish scenarios also explore possible changes to the campaign, including different levels of French intervention, Soviet actions, Czechoslovakia’s fate, and Poland’s preparation. Its alternative-history outcome can influence the setup of the French Front game.

With campaign games lasting three to four hours, a roughly two-hour Poland mini-game, and shorter scenarios of about 50 minutes, No Retreat!: Polish & French Fronts offers several ways to examine the campaigns and their pivotal historical possibilities.