Let's Play! Cities of the Damned: Aachen | Complete Playthrough | Mini-Review!

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This is a complete playthrough Cities of the Damned: Aachen, printed in Against the Odds Magazine Number 60. Aachen is designed by Michael Rinella and uses the same system as his previous designs Stalingrad: Advance to the Volga, 1942 and Manila: Savage Streets, 1945. No two conflicts show the breath and scope of urban warfare the Western Allies ran up against in 1944 than the battles for Aachen and Cassino. Both campaigns tell a very similar story about the high price of hubris and the quality of courage. Cities of the Damned (published in ATO #60 magazine) features two challenging solitaire games in which the player must lead his Allied forces to victory in two of the WWII’s most intense battles. Aachen by Mike Rinella: Fresh from a string of victories across the length of France, the US Command set its sights capture of the supposedly weakly held German city of Aachen. The Americans confidently made plans to surround the city, isolate it, and accept its surrender. But being the former capital of the First Reich, and the first true German city to fall into Allied hands, the city’s propaganda value was simply too great: Hitler forbade surrender. He even grudgingly authorized releasing forces from his Ardennes Offensive build up to help the defenders. American troops would have to storm the city and take it by force. Hidden among the picturesque buildings was a fortress of bunkers, gun emplacements, sniper holes and death traps. The GIs advancing into the city would soon be fighting in the nightmare battlefield of Aachen. The Aachen game uses the popular solitaire system designed by Mike Rinella for the game "Stalingrad: Advance on the Volga, 1942" (Take Aim Designs / Revolution Games). Support me directly! Monthly: https://www.patreon.com/wargaminghansen One-time donation: https://paypal.me/wargaminghansen The game on BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/396726/cities-of-the-damned-aachen-and-cassino The game on the publisher's website: https://www.atomagazine.com Contact me: On BGG at username "wtjbatman", or via email at murdly@gmail.com 0:00 Introduction 0:42 Overview 5:50 Playthrough 1:14:45 Mini-Review/Final Thoughts