question for my fellow grognards

WW2: Road to Victory is the first grand strategy release from IQ Software/Wastelands Interactive, which covers World War II in Europe and the Mediterranean. Hex-based and Turn-based, it allows you to choose any combination of Axis, Allied, Neutral, Major or Minor countries to play and gives you full control over production, diplomacy, land, air and naval strategy. Start your campaign in 1939, 1940 or 1941 and see if you can better the results of your historical counterparts. A series of historical events and choices add flavor and strategic options for great replayability.
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Michael the Pole
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Back in the dark past before the invention of electricity (and when my Tandy computer didnt even have a hard drive) I owned a (paper, of course) grand strategic game covering, if I remeber correctly, just the Eastern Front. Units were corps and armys, but what really made it unique were the counters, which were all hexagons.
I've been driving myself nuts the last couple of weeks trying to remember it's name. Does anyone have any idea as to what it might be? It was an AWESOME game.
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Were the Russian unit sort of pink looking? I remember a game, I believe called East Front, that had hex shaped counters and some wierd rules, so many Germany units were reduced for frostbite in the winter and such.
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ORIGINAL: James Ward

Were the Russian unit sort of pink looking? I remember a game, I believe called East Front, that had hex shaped counters and some wierd rules, so many Germany units were reduced for frostbite in the winter and such.

Yes they were, except that I seem to remember that Soviet Gaurd units were kind of a brick red. East Front was the name my petrified ROM was giving to me as well, and sure enough, a more carefull search of boardgamegeek.com has turned it up. Now to find a copy!
Thanks a lot, James. Well done![&o]

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Mike, do you remember Avalon Hill's Russian Campaign?  That game kicked butt.  I lived 3 miles from the place. 
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I always loved AH's Stalingrad.  That and Midway turned me into a wargame geek!
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Good post.

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Third Reich sucked me in.  Then when AH put out Squad Leader..., that was it, hooked for like.
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