Alternative Titles/Edition History:
1st Edition (as PL-D in Platoon Leader Version 1.0), 1995; 2nd Edition (standalone Easter at Tobruk), 2012
Publisher/Date:
Critical Hit (2012)
Product Type:
Campaign Game
Country of Origin:
U.S.A.
Contents:
2 pages of charts, 88 die-cut counters, overlay (missing from review copy)
Easter at Tobruk is a campaign game for Platoon Leader, Critical Hit’s rules system for ASL-compatible campaign games. It is basically a re-done version of the 1941 Australian-German Platoon Leader campaign game of the same published with the original Platoon Leader rules (i.e., for free), with a duplicate set of some Afrika Korps counters added (not needed to play this product), quickly cobbled together to be released at the same time as a new edition of the Platoon Leader rules. It is played on two desert geomorphic mapboards, not a historical map.
What is more, at $29.95, this product is perhaps the most outrageously expensive product in the history of Critical Hit. For nearly $30 one gets two sheets of cardstock, a sheet with an overlay (although this sheet was missing from the review copy), and a small countersheet that was not even designed for this product (but rather for another product).
Categorically, Easter at Tobruk is not even remotely close to being worth $29.95. It would be somewhat expensive at $14.95.
For only $15.95, a representative from Desperation Morale will come to your house and kick you in the balls–and it will still be a better value than purchasing Easter at Tobruk.
I playesd the CG and found it intersting and fun.
I bought it at $9,99 so it was not so expensive, still this edition alter the battleground in respect of the first ed. This fact was not taken into account in the CG, what it changes in respect to play balance I cannot say, but it’s another proof of the sloppiness of the CH (if you need another).