Ardennes II

The Standard Combat Series (SCS) games enable both experienced and beginning players to enjoy simple to play and quick to learn games. These games attempt to bring out common wargame themes, terms, and techniques.

Ardennes II is a  Standard Combat Series reissuing of the award-winning game Ardennes from 1993 using the additional research available in the BCS game Last Blitzkrieg. Like its predecessor, it covers the German Wacht am Rhein offensive in December 1944 against the heretofore "quiet front" of the Ardennes Forest. 

Despite heavy losses on both the Western and Eastern Fronts, the German Army attempted to re-invigorate its offensive forces using drafts of the elderly, infirm, and very young.  The defending US forces were recovering from the dash across France and using the Ardennes area to give exhausted units a chance to refit and to give their new reinforcements some modest battle-zone experience.

Scenarios List:
Ardennes Campaign, 2 maps, 16 turns
Breakthrough Campaign, 1 map, 6 turns
KG Peiper, part of 1 map, 5 turns
The Goose Egg, part of 1 map, 5 turns
Bastogne: Screaming Eagles Under Siege, parts of 2 maps, 8 turns
Tip of the Spear, 1 map, 4 turns

• Two 22" x 34" map
• 2 countersheets
  
• Standard Combat Series (SCS) rulebook (version 1.8)
  
• Ardennes II game-specific rulebook
• Sheets with Tables
• Two 6-sided dice