ATS: Ponyri – Metalgods
BGG rating
7.8

Expansion for Advanced Tobruk: Tank Battles in North Africa 1940-43

ATS: Ponyri – Metalgods

2011

Rules assistance for ATS: Ponyri – Metalgods

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2 players
  • 180 min
  • Complexity 4.0/5

Rules assistant for ATS: Ponyri – Metalgods

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ATS: Ponyri – Metalgods is an expansion for Advanced Tobruk: Tank Battles in North Africa 1940-43 released in 2011 for 2 players and 180 minutes per game. It was designed by Ray Tapio and its main mechanics are Hexagon Grid.

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About the game

This is an Advanced Tobruk System expansion game that allows players to recreate squad-level action from World War II. This expansion game, like all complete games and expansion games in the Advanced Tobruk System, uses the same ruleset from the system rulebook. Gameplay is the same for all games and expansions. It also comes with a Battlefield Walkaround booklet that points out landscape and terrain features specific to the game’s maps, and a few game-specific rules to reflect the unique circumstances the title portrays. Rules additions and changes are kept to a minimum allowing players to get started right away! In ATS, players alternate using impulses to move and fire infantry squads, armored vehicles and Heavy Weapons, to fulfill or deny completion of a scenario’s Victory Conditions. Each scenario sets the victory conditions that one side must complete to be victorious, and the opposing player must prevent. Draws are sometimes possible. The counters have the overhead view of AFVs and vehicles debuted in wargaming with Avalon Hill’s TOBRUK. Vehicles and guns come on 3/4" counters, infantry on a 5/8" counters, and status markers remain on 1/2" counters. Each new game or expansion in ATS drops you into a historical theater, and a specific locale within to give you an up close, and sometimes eyeball to eyeball perspective, with scenarios based or inspired by historical actions, all at 50 yards per hex. This Expansion comes with 2 large historical linking maps covering the firefights near Ponyri Station, during the Battle of Kursk, 1943. Includes 18 scenarios on the 18th Panzer Division's assault against Soviet fortified positions. Most scenarios play on one map. One "monster" scenario uses both maps. ATS Ponyri component list: 2 linking mapsheets 18 scenarios on 11 cards 1 Battlefield Walkaround booklet 2 small countersheets (5 rows with zb obr 39 25|A H|AA in upper left corner) 1 countersheet German Personnel 1 countersheet EF1 1 countersheet ATS New Russian Personnel 1 NOT A COMPLETE GAME. Ownership of any Eastern Front ATS complete game is required to play this expansion.

Mechanics

Designers

Publishers

  • Critical Hit, Inc.

Questions and answers

ATS: Ponyri – Metalgods supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.