Tank Battle

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Tank Battle
Players2
Setup time< 5-10 minutes
Playing time< 15-20 minutes
Age range8 to Adult

Tank Battle is a Milton Bradley board game of strategy where players attempt to out-guess and out-maneuver their opponent in a contest of armored warfare, and includes the extra strategy brought by fuel and ammunition dumps as well as anti-tank guns and mines. On the box lid was a picture of tanks resembling Shermans and Panzers and in some releases the playing pieces resembled these models.

Contents

Milton Bradley touted this game as "The game of planning and strategy".[ citation needed ]

Game play

The players take turns moving tanks across a 10x10 grid of 100 numbered rectangles, while attempting to take out the ammunition dump, the fuel depot, the headquarters, the anti-tank guns and the tanks of the opposing player. The player that destroys all the opponent's tanks without losing all of theirs wins. [1]

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References

  1. Tank Battle Instructions. Milton Bradley Company, USA. 1975.