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4th Reich: Puremen vs. the Mutants for Control of the World
4th Reich: Puremen vs. the Mutants for Control of the World
by Task Force Games (1985)
Player Count
1 to 2

Player Ages
12+

Playing Time
2 hours
Categories
  • Science Fiction
  • Wargame
  • Economic
  • World War II
  • Novel-based
  • Designers
  • Dana Lombardy
  • Howard Anderson
  • Mechanisms
  • Secret Unit Deployment
  • Hex-and-Counter
  • Dice Rolling
  • Grid Movement
  • Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game
  • Movement Points
  • Artists
  • Dana Lombardy
  • Bruce Weigle
  • Family
  • Country: Germany
  • Country: Italy
  • Country: Russia
  • Alternate History
  • Rating: 0/10 from 0 users

    Description

    "4th Reich: Puremen vs. the Mutants for Control of the World" is a somewhat obscure wargame by Task Force Games based on (albeit without attribution) the SF-novel "The Iron Dream" by the Jewish author Norman Spinrad. This very controversial novel describes a parallel world in which Hitler wasn't successful with his "Kampf" in Germany and became a successful SF-pulp-novelist in the US. The main part of the book is the actual text of Hitler's "Iron Dream", a pulp-tale about "Ubermenschen" conquering a future world filled with mutant "scum." The idea of Spinrad's novel was to expose fascist tendencies in 50's American literature. The TFG designers transported this "theme" into a board game which plays like a wargame: future Nazis against future mutants. The names of all protagonists have been changed in an apparent attempt to avoid infringement, but the game clearly takes its slightly tongue-in-cheek approach directly from the book.

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