The Cossacks are Coming!
"The Tannenberg Campaign, 1914"
Title: The Cossacks are Coming!
Publisher: People's War Games (1982)
Designer: David Bolt
Subject: Eastern Front campaign, World War I - Germany vs. Russia
Scope: regimental
Box: 11" x 14" x 1"
Counters: 1 sheet of 400 0.5" square + 1 sheet of 200 0.5" square
sheet #1:
33 gray/black (infantry)
3 gray/black (machine gun)
3 gray/black (engineer)
1 gray/black (railroad)
11 gray/black (cavalry)
13 gray/black (dragoon)
1 gray/black (amored car)
3 gray/black (motorized infantry)
11 gray/black (indirect field artillery)
15 gray/black (field artillery)
2 gray/black (horse field artillery)
1 gray/black (heavy artillery)
2 gray/black (indirect heavy artillery)
5 gray/black (supply depot)
18 gray/black (fortress)
2 gray/black (zeppelin)
10 gray/black (airplane)
4 gray/black (leader)
17 gray/black (headquarters)
9 gray/black (dummy)
34 gray/black (command)
2 gray/black (ammo left)
47 green/black (infantry)
40 green/black (field artillery)
13 green/black (cavalry)
9 green/black (horse field artillery)
12 green/black (supply depot)
2 green/black (indirect heavy artillery)
1 green/black (indirect field artillery)
18 green/black (headquarters)
2 green/black (railroad)
1 green/black (engineer)
41 green/black (command)
1 green/black (leader)
9 green/black (fortress)
1 green/black (dummy)
3 green/black (airplane)
sheet #2:
24 white/gray (regular combat)
14 white/black (entrenchment mode)
3 white/black (rail mode)
54 white/black (strength points)
10 white/black (artillery support)
14 white/black (ammo left)
6 white/black (out of ammo)
8 white/black (main depot status)
8 white/black (army mission)
2 white/black (german rail points)
2 white/black (russian rail points)
6 white/black (prisoners)
1 white/black (final combat period)
1 white/black (current phase)
1 white/black (days used)
1 white/black (game turn)
5 green/black (leader)
29 green/black (command)
10 green/black (dummy)
1 white blank
Map: 1 22" x 36" sheet unmounted
Rules: 1 38-page booklet
Player Aids: none
Dice: 2 6-sided
Information on this title compiled by
David Krause
on December 31, 1999.
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