Fighting Formations: US 29th Infantry Division

Fighting Formations is intended to be an ongoing series of wargames covering WWII tactical combined-arms combat at the platoon and squad levels. Each game in the series will feature a distinct combat unit, highlighting battles in which that unit participated as well as its particular order of battle and fighting characteristics. In this second volume of Fighting Formations, we feature the US 29th Infantry Division—"Blue and Gray"—as it fought from just after D-Day in June of 1944 to the end of the year.

In each scenario, one player will take command of elements of the featured unit while the other assumes control of the opposing forces. These two players will alternate giving orders, activating their units on the map for various military functions. Players attempt to achieve victory by moving their combat units across the game map to attack their opponent’s units and to achieve as many scenario objectives as possible. The degree to which a player succeeds or fails is measured by a scenario’s specific victory conditions—be it the destruction of enemy units, the taking of vital mapboard objectives, or the exiting of friendly units off the opponent’s map edge.

Fighting Formations: US 29th Infantry Division is a stand-alone game in the Fighting Formations game series. While utilizing the basic rules, playbook includes specific terrain, fortification, and unit special action rules in order to more accurately portray tactical warfare as experienced by the participants in France, Holland, and Germany during this time period.

• Three Backprinted 22" x 34" Maps
• Four Backprinted 17" x 22" Maps
• Six Die-cut Countersheets
• Two Player Aid Cards
• 55 Playing Cards
• One Track Display, 2-sided
• One Series Rulebook
• One Playbook
• One Scenarios Booklet
• One Examples of Play Booklet
• 10 Wooden Cubes
• One Wooden Pawn
• 10 Dice