Black Sea * Black Death
Soviet amphibious landing on the Black Sea coast, 1943
Title: Black Sea * Black Death
Publisher: People's War Games (1982)
Designer: Jack Radey
Subject: Soviet attempt to outflank the German 17th army on the Black Sea Coast
Scope: battalion-company
Box: 11" x 14" x 1"
Counters: 1 sheet of 400 + 1 sheet of 200 0.5" square counters.
sheet #1:
37 gray/black (infantry)
1 gray/black (cavalry)
12 gray/black (regiment headquarters)
8 gray/black (engineers)
4 gray/black (anti-tank)
14 gray/black (artillery)
2 gray/black (motorcycle)
1 gray/black (commando)
1 gray/black (self-propelled artillery)
1 gray/black (panzer grenadier)
4 gray/black (construction)
6 gray/black (tank)
1 gray/black (armored car)
3 gray/black (shore battery)
1 gray/black ("73")
1 gray/black ("125")
1 gray/black ("Busche")
1 gray/black ("von Hake")
1 gray/black ("Novo. Garrison")
54 red/black (infantry)
5 red/black (engineers)
7 red/black (anti-tank)
5 red/black (anit-aircraft)
8 red/black (artillery)
8 red/black (regiment headquarters)
2 red/black (infantry weapons)
1 red/black (infantry mortar)
3 red/black (machine gun)
2 red/black (heavy mortar)
1 red/black (rocket launcher)
1 red/black (mountain rocket)
6 red/black (mountain)
3 red/black (air unit)
10 red/black (tank)
10 red/black (Div/Bde/Rgt units)
5 blue/white (artillery)
1 blue/white (heavy mortar)
7 blue/white (airborne)
18 blue/white (infantry)
2 blue/white (engineer)
2 blue/white (infantry weapons)
1 blue/white (infantry mortar)
2 blue/white (headquarters)
2 blue/white (shore battery)
14 blue/white (air unit)
3 blue/white (Bde/Rgt units)
48 white/blue (ship unit)
2 white/black (amphibious supply)
6 white/black (smoke)
2 white/black (turn)
6 white/black (out of command)
6 white/black (no supply line)
1 white/black (impulse)
1 darkgray/black ("Platov")
3 darkgray/black (cavalry)
12 lightblue/black (infantry)
1 lightblue/black (anti-aircraft)
1 lightblue/black (motorcycle)
1 lightblue/black (artillery)
1 lightblue/black (headquarters)
1 lightblue/black ("Rumanian")
2 blue/black (HAKO)
12 bluegray/black (air unit)
8 bluegray/black (anit-aircraft)
3 white blanks
sheet #2:
50 white/black ("1")
50 pink/black (trench)
20 gray/black (suppressed)
20 lightred/black (suppressed)
30 pink/black (fortifications)
30 white/black (assault)
0 blanks
Map: 1 22" x 26" unmounted sheet
Rules: 1 40-page booklet
Player Aids: none
Dice: 2 6-sided (1 red, 1 white)
Information on this title compiled by
David Krause
on December 31, 1999.
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