Free is good

Bravo, lads. Against the Odds magazine is offering up a free minigame (read: another micro history game) called "Stand at Mortain" to anyone who participates in their marketing shill for the magazine (click on the bold print to the left to view the offer).

ATO is in some respects the modern Strategy and Tactics, producing a series of issue games about once a quarter. The buzz has been good in general. I reviewed one of the earlier issues for Paper Wars, as I recall. I seem to recall enjoying it, although it was fairly complex. I don't mind getting email from them.

Here's a description of Last Stand at Martain.

Following the defeat of the British and Canadian offensives of Operations Goodwood and Spring, in August 1944 the Germans redeployed several panzer divisions to shut down the American Operation Cobra offensive by attacking due west to the sea. The fiercest fighting occurred to the north and east of Mortain at Hill 314 (hex 1501 on
the game map) where surrounded Americans of the 2nd Battalion of the 120th Regiment threw back repeated German attacks. Control of the high ground here would make the Mortain position nearly untenable, and with it the main Allied supply route from Normandy south would be severed.