
- BGG rank
- BGG #7,482
- BGG rating
- 7.0
Eastern Front: A Panzer Grenadier Game
- 2 players
- 120 min
- Complexity 2.8/5
- 2005

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Black Sea Marines is an expansion for Armata Romana: A Panzer Grenadier Scenario Book released in 2023 for 2 players. It was designed by Michael Bennighof and its main mechanics are Dice Rolling, Secret Unit Deployment, and Modular Board.
Black Sea Marines is a Panzer Grenadier Campaign Study, with 11 scenarios based on the land battles of the Black Sea Fleet Marines in the dark days of 1941 against German and Romanian invaders. There are two chapters, each with a battle game to link the scenarios together. You’ll need Panzer Grenadier: Fire in the Steppe, Armata Romana and River Battleships to play all of the scenarios. —description from the publisher
Black Sea Marines 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.
Black Sea Marines belongs to these categories: Wargame, World War II, and Expansion for Base-game. Its main mechanics are Dice Rolling, Secret Unit Deployment, and Modular Board. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The credited designers of Black Sea Marines are: Michael Bennighof. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists Black Sea Marines as an expansion for Armata Romana: A Panzer Grenadier Scenario Book. Expansions add new content, rules or scenarios to the base game and usually cannot be played on their own, so you need Armata Romana: A Panzer Grenadier Scenario Book to use it. Check that your edition of Armata Romana: A Panzer Grenadier Scenario Book is compatible, as some expansions were revised between editions.