Blitz! A World in Conflict is a grand strategy game where players fight all the battles and manage all the economies of the five major powers who fought World War II: Germany and Japan for the Axis, and for the Allies: the Anglo-French Alliance (Great Britain, France, the British Commonwealth nations, and all of their colonies), the United States of America, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Developed in cooperation with the Australian Design Group, Blitz! A World in Conflict brings the award-winning tradition of World in Flames™ into a re-imagined format that is much faster to play, with beautiful components, while maintaining World in Flames' premiere historical accuracy.

In each Blitz! turn, first the Axis and then the Allied players take turns performing activities. First you move out your naval and air units to sea, and resolve all sea area combats. It's possible for both sides to have units in the same sea area when a sea area combat is over. After moving your land and air units (except those at sea), you then launch your land area attacks. These include both ground attacks aimed at controlling a land area (unlike sea areas, only one side will control each land area when combat is over) as well as air attacks that bomb enemy ports and factories. Both sides may then perform an optional second round of activites exactly as before, but this time each major power needs to spend Oil in order to participate. Lastly, players resolve turn end activities together, including neutral entry, building and repairing units, and awarding Victory Points. When one or more major power has 15 VPs, the game is over and the victorious player(s) are determined.

Components:

• 1 map 22” x 34”
• 2.5 countersheets – mixture of 5/8” and 3/4"
• 8 Player Aid Cards
• 1 Rules Book
• 2 Ten-Sided Dice

Scale:

• Game Scale: Grand Strategic
• Time Scale: Variable from 9 months per turn to 4 months per turn
• Map Scale: Full-Globe – area based
• Unit Scale: Army/Air Force/Fleet