Battles in the East 2: Uman Pocket and Guderian’s Final Blitzkrieg, 1941

Battles in the East 2: Uman Pocket and Guderian’s Final Blitzkrieg, 1941 is a two-player World War II Eastern Front wargame volume from Decision Games. It includes two 1941 battles using the Battles in the East system, an evolution of classic SPI-style operational designs such as Panzergruppe Guderian, Army Group South, and Cobra.

Product Type: Boxed series volume containing two battles.

The first battle, Uman Pocket, covers Army Group South’s attempt to encircle and destroy Soviet forces west of the Dnieper during Operation Barbarossa. The second, Guderian’s Final Blitzkrieg, covers the drive toward Tula during the final phase of Operation Typhoon, as German forces race weather, exhaustion, and Soviet resistance in the attempt to reach Moscow from the south.

The system emphasizes operational movement, headquarters support, supply, and formation integrity, with Soviet and German cohesion changing as the war progresses. Each volume includes battle-specific scenario rules and setup materials while retaining a common series rules framework.

Contents include: one double-sided 22×34 inch game board, 440 die-cut 5/8-inch counters, 16-page system rules booklet, two sets of system charts, two sets of scenario rules/setup cards, scenario display card, one six-sided die, and storage bags.