Recent news
Whats going on at Great Escape Games?
20.08.10: With playtesting now well and truely complete we have put the Battle for Breslau up on our webstore. Follow the link to go to the PDF in the books part of our store.
Festung Breslau saw some of the most intense urban fighting of the whole war. The inhabitants were besieged for almost three months as the Soviet Sixth Army fought its way through the shattered streets towards the centre until, four days after Berlin had fallen, the city surrendered on the 6th May, 1945.
Players have the opportunity to either defend Breslau as the besieged Germans, taking up arms as forces from Independent Fortress Infantry Regiment (IFIR) “Mohr” and SS IFIR “Besslein” as well as Fallschirmjager troops. Or attempt to overrun the defences as forces from the Soviet Sixth Army.
This book presents 8 scenarios that can be played alone or as part of a campaign. As well as the scenarios this book also contains two new Orders of Battle for the IFIR “Mohr” and a Soviet Assault Platoon. The scenarios are designed for Rules of Engagement but are easily adaptable to other games.
In other Great Escape Games news, we have some new images of US infantry added to the webstore – 57mm anti-tank gun, LMG team, and a sniper team.
We’re looking forward to the Colours show in Newbury on the 11th and 12th of September where we’ll have some new offers on army deals and can chat about new projects in the pipeline.
13.08.10: At the moment we're working on quite a lot of things. We've just put the new British Airlanding Order of Battle up on the website and have a whole host of other's waiting in the wings. Some are in the early stages of development, such as lists for North Africa, others, such as some for A Very British Civil War are nearing the stage where they can go out to be playtested, others including OOB's for the Pacific are out being play tested as I type and will go up on the site shortly.
As well as these we've just recently completed the final stages of play testing for our new Battle for Breslau scenario book. As with our first scenario book, Battle for the Bridgehead - Beyond Ohmaha, this new one will be released as a PDF through the website. It features 8 linked scenarios as well as two new Orders of Battle, one for the Germans representing a platoon from the Independent Fortress Infantry Regiment (IFIR) "Mohr" and one for the Soviets representing an element from the specialist assault formations that the Soviets created. We will be putting it up on the webstore next week on Friday 20th. For more details follow the link below to see a preview of it.
British Airlanding Order of Battle
We have just put the British Airlanding platoon Order of Battle up as a free PDF download. Perfect for gamers wishing to field any of the British Airlanding forces such as the famous Ox's and Bucks, it can also be used to field Canadian and Polish airlanding platoons. Click on the title above to go to the Late War OOB Download page.
Scenario Competition
A quick thanks to everybody who entered our recent scenario competition, we had an excellent response and the variety of different scenarios was incredible, some more plausible than others! The winning competition was created by Mick Graham and is called Point of Attack. Follow the link in the title to go to the downloads page where we have put Micks scenario and an additional scenario called Infiltration, by Jack Watling which features a completely different type of game than the standard platoon v platoon games that we usually play.
New miniatures
We have recently teamed up with Artizan Designs and North Satr Military Figures to provide a new range of miniatures. The new range is using Artizan Designs World War 2 range which has then been put together to match the Orders of Battle from Rules of Engagement. Each force features a core platoon, the basic building block to any RoE force, consisting of a platoon Command and 2 Squads/Sections. Added to this are additional Squads/Sections and Company Support options which are exactly the same as those featured in our various publications. Added together this makes collecting an RoE force incredibly easy. Simply pick up the core platoon and then add the Company Support options you want and you're done. We will be adding complete armies to the webstore very soon which will provide gamers with everything that they will need to game with a particular platoon in one simple purchase and will also represent additional value.
Have a look at the webstore at each force. We have miniatures for British and Canadian Infantry, British Airborne, US Infantry and Airborne, German Grenadiers, Fallschirmjager, and Waffen SS. I'm sure you'll be as pleased with them as we are.
Errata Sheet
We have updated our errata sheet. This update includes clarification for the Fanatic rule, firing template weapons against vehicles, including open topped vehicles. Click on the title above to go to the Errata page.
Great Escape Games on tour.
Below is an updated list of the events that we will be attending this year. We have included all the events that we have confirmed a place at and will update the list as and when we add more. Why not come along to one in your area and have a chat?
| Date | Event | Location | Contact |
| Sat-Sun July 17th-18th | Attack | Devizes | Website |
| Sat-Sun September 11th-12th | Colours | Newbury | Website |
| Sat-Sun October 2nd-3rd | Derby World Wargames | Derby | Website |
| Sat-Sun November 20th-21st | Warfare | Reading | Website |
Armoured Assault
Armoured Assault is on sale now and availiable in the online store for £12.
Armoured Assault is the fourth source book for Rules of Engagement and allows players to field additional vehicles to those listed in current published works.
As well as this it also provides gamers with additional scenarios with rules for fielding more than one armoured vehicle alongside infantry platoons or on their own.
What tanks will you find in Armoured Assault? The majority of the vehicles you will find in the book are vehicles that were found on the battlefield during the latter part of World War Two. These are vehicles that haven’t featured in the Orders of Battle given in the rule book or Operation Bagration source book. As well as these we have also included a few vehicles which, although not in the field in large numbers, are availiable to gamers as models and thus we wanted to give people the option to field them.
Follow the link in the title to go to the Book Overview page where you can have a more detailed look at the book.
Firestorm Games demo Gaming, Saturday, May 22nd
Beyond Juno, features the Canadians fighting 12th SS. We’ll be playing all day on a 16’ x 6’ table with full companies on either side. Everyone is invited to come and join in using their own painted figures or ours. We particularly want to invite new players and those who want to find out what WWII gaming, and RoE, is all about.
Operations and Objectives
We have added a hex map to the Operations and Objectives part of our Downloads page as well as a Historical Campaign based on the breakout of Canadian troops from Juno beach. Click on the link in the title to go to the downloads page.
Operations and Objectives
To support the release of Operations and Objectives we have added several files to the Download section. These include a quick reference sheet, the complete set of Fortunes of War cards and a conversion sheet to allow Warhammer Ancient Battles gamers to use the system for their games. The WAB conversion sheet is the first of many that we will be providing as free downloads to allow gamers of other systems to use the campaign rules. Follow the link in the title to go to the downloads page.
The Operations and Objectives book is now availiable from our online store, follow the link below or click on the thumbnail on the right.
Operations and Objectives
Operations and Objectives is our third book and allows players to introduce a strategic level to their WWII gaming. Taking control of company sized formations on the campaign map, sides compete to accomplish objectives set by the upper echelons of their commands.
Follow the link in the title to go to the Book Overview page where you can have a more detailed look at the book.
Poland Campaign 1939. Soviet OOB
We have just uploaded the third of our Poland Campaign Orders of Battle to the Downloads section of our website. This OOB gives details of a Soviet Infantry platoon. Click on the title above to go to the Poland Campaign Orders of Battle Page.
Battle for the Bridgehead - Beyond Omaha
The PDF is now availiable from our online store, click on the following LINK to go to the store.
We have just finished our first scenario book, Battle for the Bridgehead - Beyond Omaha. The Beyond Omaha campaign follows the first hours and days of the 2nd and 5th Ranger Battalion’s and 29th Infantry Division’s combat experience during the invasion of Normandy. Click on the title above to have a look at the preview for the PDF. This is the first PDF that we have released for sale. The PDF presents 9 scenarios that can be played alone or as part of two interlinking campaigns: Rudder’s Rangers and Blue & Gray, each scenario gives a detailed separate brief for both the Axis and Allied players. The PDF is 58 pages long and costs £5.
Tree Making Guide.
We have had several people asking if we could create our Tree making guide as a PDF so that it would be easier to download and print. Well here you go, follow the link in the title to go to the hobby downloads page.
Soviet Infantry painting guide
We've added a quick and simple painting guide for Soviet Infantry covering summer and winter uniforms. Just click on either the image or header above to go to the painting guide.
German Low Grade Order of Battle
This Order of Battle is designed to allow players to use rear echelon troops thrown together as front line infantry. It may be used to represent scratch construction units, kriegsmarine, “ear and stomach” platoons or under-equipped Luftwaffe field formations. Click on the title above to go to the downloads page and have a look.
Operation Bagration to the Fall of the Reich
Have a look at the preview of our recently released Eastern Front source book. This book covers the same time period as the Orders of Battle in our rule book and deals with the Eastern Front.
Wargames Journal review.
Want to know more about how Rules of Engagement plays? Follow the link in the title above to read the review by Rich Jones from Wargames Journal. Rich has also written a battle report which can be found by visiting the Wargames Journal site, follow the link below.
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