Beda Fomm
BGG rank
BGG #13,325
BGG rating
6.9

Beda Fomm

1979

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

  • 2 players
  • 120 min
  • 12+
  • Complexity 2.2/5

For 2 players

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Beda Fomm is a board game released in 1979 for 2 players, 120 minutes per game, and ages 12 and up. It was designed by Frank Chadwick and its main mechanics are Dice Rolling, Grid Movement, and Hexagon Grid.

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About the game

"Beda Fomm: Wavell in the Western Desert, 1941" is a complete historical wargame simulation of the Italo-British Battle of Beda Fomm, fought 5 February 1941. Company and platoon scale units, 1 mile per hex. Each game turn is 1 hour. One of GDW's Series 120 games, a line of introductory wargames spanning various historical eras. The games in the series had 120 counters and were supposed to be playable in 120 minutes or less, hence the name.

Publishers

  • Game Designers' Workshop (GDW Games)
  • Kokusai-Tsushin Co., Ltd. (国際通信社)

Questions and answers

Beda Fomm 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.