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LINE OF DEPARTURE ONLINE FEATURES A MASTER STROKE DOWNLOAD PAGE
DOWNLOAD THE GAME Prolific game designer Paul Rohrbaugh designed A Master Stroke: The Battle for Meiktila, March 5-14, 1945 to cover the battle in Burma that resulted in the final liberation of Mandalay and Rangoon. Not a fight in the impenetrable jungle, this was a mobile battle featuring tanks in the armor-friendly central plain of the country. What follows is a complete desktop-published board wargame; all that you the player have to do is download, print, assemble and provide the six-sided die, plus a coffee cup to hold the activation markers. What you do not have to provide is money, as A Master Stroke is 100% free. The 11" x 17" map is in three sections, so that anyone with a printer can put it together without searching for a tabloid-capable printer. They also overlap for ease of assembly. For those who do want to print it in one piece, there is a second file, consisting solely of a one-piece map, that can be downloaded separately from the game. It is wholly optional though. These are big files. The game is 8.6 MB, and the map is 5.13 MB. A broadband connection is highly recommended. IMPORTANT: When prompted by your browser, save the file to your hard drive.
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MASTER STROKE: THE BATTLE FOR MEIKTILA MARCH 5-14, 1945 (COMPLETE GAME)
ONE-PIECE MAP FOR A MASTER STROKE
DOWNLOAD THE ERRATA AND LIVING RULES One objective of A Master Stroke was to make it as errata-free as possible. Upon its September 2006 release, it came pretty close. Still, there is a need for a small number of corrections, and a few clarifications. Besides the errata, there are living rules, incorporating the most recent corrections, clearly marked. Both are available for download here. It should also be noted that both the most current iteration of the living rules, and the errata, are incorporated into the complete game downloads above.
PLAY IT ONLINE A Master Stroke is supported for online play with VASSAL, and the ZunTzu gaming platform. Thanks to Bill Ash for designing modules for both systems.
A MASTER STROKE
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