MMP On to Richmond II: The Union Strikes South

Ardennes II is a Standard Combat Series reissuing of the award-winning game Ardennes from 1993 using the additional research available in the BCS game Last Blitzkrieg. Like its predecessor, it covers the German Wacht am Rhein offensive in December 1944 against the heretofore “quiet front” of the Ardennes Forest.
Despite heavy losses on both the Western and Eastern Fronts, the German Army attempted to re-invigorate its offensive forces using drafts of the elderly, infirm, and very young. The defending US forces were recovering from the dash across France and using the Ardennes area to give exhausted units a chance to refit and to give their new reinforcements some modest battle-zone experience.
The result went down in history as the Battle of the Bulge.
Overcoming the initial surprise, the US forces put together a series of determined defenses, numerous timely bridge destructions, and the incredible power of their well-supplied artillery to stop the vaunted German Panzer troops nearly dead in their tracks.

The game continues the SCS tradition of a very clean and easily played Sequence of Play, clear unit interactions, and straight-forward victory determination.

This game is highly recommended for those interested in learning for the first time or teaching the fine hobby of wargaming to beginners.

Scenarios:
-Ardennes Campaign, 2 maps, 16 turns
-Breakthrough Campaign, 1 map, 6 turns
-KG Peiper, part of 1 map, 5 turns
-The Goose Egg, part of 1 map, 5 turns
-Bastogne: Screaming Eagles Under Siege, parts of 2 maps, 8 turns T
-ip of the Spear, 1 map, 4 turns

Components:
-SCS rulebook (Version 1.8)
-Ardennes II game-specific rulebook
-two full-color 22" x 34" game maps
-560 counters
-6 scenarios (including four on a single map)
-box and dice