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Cobra: Game of the Normandy Breakout

Nike and Cooper Española, S.A., 1977

Cobra: Game of the Normandy Breakout is a tabletop game published by Nike and Cooper Española, S.A. in 1977. It is played with 2 players, from age 12 and in about 120 to 480 minutes.

players
2
minutes
120–480
years
12+

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Publishers
Nike and Cooper Española, S.A., Six Angles, SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.), Tactical Studies Rules (TSR)
Designers
Brad Hessel, David James Ritchie
Artwork
Larry Elmore, Nicolás Eskubi, Ivor M. Janci, Redmond Aksel Simonsen, Masahiro Yamazaki
Year of release
1977
Also known as
Cobra · Cobra: Patton's 1944 Summer Offensive in France

About the game

Cobra: Game of the Normandy Breakout, originally titled Cobra: Patton's 1944 Summer offensive in France, is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1977 that simulates the 1944 breakout of Allied forces from Normandy following D-Day.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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