Ochi: The Italian Invasion of Greece, 1940

[Grognard Gunny]

You got that right!

GG

[JayTownsend]

The ebb and flow of this one is going to be really fun,

[plloyd1010]

Maybe eventually. After spending almost every day for the last 40 years sitting at a computer screen, Vassal doesn't sound like much fun.

For me, the play is the thing. I prefer pushing cardboard too, but the dearth of players and scheduling issues were the primary impetus for PG Über. Formulary considerations were bringing component game requirements together and general experimentation. The byproduct of that is not needing the component qames to play a supplement, but for other reasons you cannot play the component games yourself.

My cousin and Jay are the only players in my area, and Jay works nights. (And our wives would like to see us occasionally.) If you have a game club, congratulations! Otherwise, it is solo play or Vassal. (Ask Felipe what happens when solo players enter the arena.)

[JayTownsend]

My mom is also in hospice care and my wife needs surgery next year, so besides work, my family health issues are really taking up my normal time. My dad is 86 as well, my kids live out of state, so life in 2023 has been very difficult for me. Anyway, cry me a river. Keep playing PG!

[JayTownsend]

Ochi
A Panzer Grenadier Story
At 0300 on 28 October 1940, the Italian ambassador to Greece presented Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas with a formal demand that Italian troops occupy Greece. Alors, c’est la guerre, Metaxas answered, but Greek propagandists would claim he instead gave a one-word reply: Ochi, Greek for “Hell No.” At 0530, the Italian invasion of Greece began.
The Greeks held, and by mid-November had launched their own counter-offensive and captured part of Italian-held Albania. From January through April the lines remained in place, but then German intervention quickly brough the campaign to and end, only to lead to four years of bitter unconventional resistance.
Ochi is a Panzer Grenadier expansion based on the battles between the Italian invaders and Greek defenders, with scenarios by Jay Townsend. We tell the story of the Italo-Greek war, through 40 scenarios with 176 new pieces, all of them die-cut and silky-smooth.
   
You’ll need Parachutes Over Crete and Conquest of Ethiopia to play all of the scenarios.
You get to add Greek Evzones, Albanian Blackshirt Militia and Italian Bersaglieri bicyclists to your Panzer Grenadier lineup.
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Stock Code APL8827
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[Rodney727]

I too am looking forward to this game and I have pre-ordered it. There’s so much more to be published that this game will last forever! I am working on a campaign study on the German 1st Panzer division. It will include their battles from 1939-1945. Also toying with the idea of adding 1 star generals to the game as they were generally on the front lines of combat. My main sources come from German order of battle, all three volumes and Panzer aces also all three volumes. Note that German Generals started at Major General and not Brigadier like in the allied armies.

[JayTownsend]

Sounds interesting Rodney. I do have a General counter for the US and the ROK forces in my Korean PG games and I know Rommel is in Desert Rats, so that is three Generals in the series I can think of off the top of my mind.

[JayTownsend]

When you look at the big picture of WWII, the Greek-Italian War of 1940-41, known as Ochi for the PG game, might have had the biggest consequences of any battle of WWII. How so, well it pushed the start date back for Operation Barbarossa by one month and many feel one month was the difference in if Moscow and the Soviet Union collapsed. If that is so, can you image the resources the Germans would now have to defend the Western Front or even transfer to North Africa or maybe assist Japan or start Operation Sea Lion again? I think the US & UK could have still prevailed but in a much dragged out, costly war. Just food for thought in the hypothetical realm.

[joe_oppenheimer]

Sounds interesting Rodney. I do have a General counter for the US and the ROK forces in my Korean PG games and I know Rommel is in Desert Rats, so that is three Generals in the series I can think of off the top of my mind.

Airborne has a Brigadier General.

[JayTownsend]

    When AP gets to it:

Since I ordered the complete kit plus some and already own the base games, I’ll make a complete game box out of Ochi.