Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear! – Operation Barbarossa 1941 (Second Edition)

This is the 2012 second edition of the game that started the Conflict of Heroes series, set on the Eastern Front in 1941 during Operation Barbarossa. You command individual squads, guns and tanks on a hex map built from modular boards, spending action points to move, shoot and react. Cardboard counters stand for every vehicle and unit, and the rules come without lookup charts, so play stays fluid once the first turns are behind you. Dice decide the firefights, but good positioning decides who gets to roll first. Think of it as a tabletop tactics puzzle where you feel every single squad. Plan on a long afternoon for a proper scenario, and best with two people facing each other across the map.