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WARGAME RECON BREAKTHROUGH HISTORY Announcing "Lucky Strike" (Ardennes 1944) and "Steeple Chase" (Holland 1944), two infamous high-risk military gambles that failed to change the course of World War II, will be bundled in 2027 by Compass Games. ARE YOU FEELING LUCKY TODAY? Coinciding with the release of Lucky Strike, a World War II dramatic thriller from Roadside Attractions, game designers Frank Davis and Soichiro Nakane announced they are remaking the classic 1965 Battle of the Bulge wargame from Avalon Hill. The Bitter Woods For seven decades, the surprise German counterattack in the Ardennes in December 1944, better known as “Battle of the Bulge,” has been one of the most popular wargame subjects. But like the panzer armies racing to the Meuse in 1944, wargames often run out of gas after players devote hours moving hundreds of units across a ping-pong sized game table using surgical tweezers. Race to the Meuse Combining a stark winter campaign game map and taunt sudden death game mechanics, Lucky Strike artfully captures the mood and pace of Hitler’s desperate last gamble to prevent Germany’s defeat in World War II. More History in Less Time Wargames should NOT be forever wars. War is a game of speed and cunning, not a "simulation" governed by fine print rules, diffential movement tables, ZOC bonds, and long division combat calculations. Played on your coffee table with fewer pieces than chess, Lucky Strike is a blitzkrieg counterstrike against monster wargames that take forever to play. A Bridge Too Far Currently in development, Lucky Strike will be published next year bundled with Steeple Chase, a riveting, high-wire military gamble game based on the ill-fated "Operation Market Garden” as the second duo in the Breakthrough History series from Compass Games.