Balkan Front
Europa III: The Axis Campaigns in Greece and Yugoslavia, Autumn 1940 to Summer 1941

• Year of Publication: 1990
  
• Publisher: Game Research/Design
  
• Design: John M. Astell

Balkan Front recreates the campaign in the Balkans from the autumn of 1940 to the summer of 1941. It covers the failed Italian attempt to conquer Greece, the German blitz which overran Yugoslavia and Greece, and the German airborne assault on Crete. Balkan Front is a complete revision of Marita-Merkur, bringing the state of the art Europa rules, counters, and maps to this classic game. This game includes:

Two revised “new style”. maps covering Yugoslavia, Albania, and Greece.

720 counters covering the campaign forces of Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia, Britain, Germany, Hungary, and Bulgaria.

State of the art rules, based on the award-winning Scorched Earth and forthcoming Second Front. Also included are political rules covering the web of Balkan duplicity and intrigue, from unstable Yugoslavia to territory-hungry Bulgaria.

Scenarios covering the grand campaign and the individual campaigns in Greece, Yugoslavia, and Crete, plus some “what if” scenarios.B

• One full map and one half map (14A, 15A)
  
  
• Three counter sheets with 720 counters (20A, 21A, 22A)

Current Errata & Extras

Europa Games

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Drang Nach Osten!
Unentschieden
Narvik (1st ed)
Their Finest Hour (1st ed)
Case White
Marita-Merkur
Narvik (2nd ed)
The Fall of France
Their Finest Hour (2nd ed)
Western Desert
The Near East
Spain and Portugal
Fire in the East
Torch
Scorched Earth
The Urals
Balkan Front
First to Fight (1st ed)
A Winter War
Second Front
For Whom the Bell Tolls
War in the Desert
First to Fight (2nd ed)
Storm over Scandinavia
Wavell’s War
Barbarossa Unleashed