The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the start of World War II in Europe.
The morning after the Gleiwitz incident, German forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west on September 1st on 1939. As the Germans advanced, Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Polish-German border to more established lines of defence to the east. After the mid-September Polish defeat in the Battle of the Bzura, the Germans gained an undisputed advantage. The Polish forces then withdrew to the southeast where they prepared for a long defence of the Romanian Bridgehead and awaited expected support and relief from France and the United Kingdom. Will the Polish hold the lines until the Allies aid arrives and vanquish the German Advances over Europe?
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| Division 1 |
3 Squad Bases |
7 Squad Bases 1 SdKfz 251 Half Track |
| Division 2 |
4 Squad Bases |
6 Squad Bases 1 SdKfz 251 Half Track |
| Strategy Decks | - | - |
| Starting Strategy Cards | - | - |
| Operations Cards | - | - |
| Deployment Zone | On any opposite grey hexes's two boards. | On any grey hexes. |
| Starting Initiative |  |
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| Objective | The Polish player must not lose all units on any Part Scenario and must prevent the Germans capture the building marked with a Victory Marker on scenario. | The German player must push forward through the 3 scenarios, and wins if he controls the building marked as a Victory Marker until round 4 on the last scenario. He loses if all units are destroyed. |
| Rounds | Part 1: until Retreat declared Part 2: until Retreat declared Part 3: 4 |
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| Actions per turn | 2 | 2 |
| Reinforcements | The Polish player can buy new units with the Command Points aquired over the Part's Scenarios and add them as Starting Units in the Last Part ("R" hex). | - |
| Special Rules |
The Polish player may declare a RETREAT on the beginning of the COMMAND PHASE when playing the Parts 1 and 2 of the Campaign. When declared, do as follow:
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