War Room: A Larry Harris Game (2nd Edition)

War Room is Larry Harris's global Second World War game, from the designer of Axis & Allies. Up to six players command the nations, allies sit side by side, and the whole world is on the table: oil, iron and other strategic resources, convoys, morale and capitals.

Its signature is secret orders. Every round each nation writes its movements on a chart at the same time, allies whispering over the map, and only then are the orders revealed and carried out. Plans collide. Fleets arrive where nobody expected them.

This is a full day rather than an evening, often six hours, and that is the point. The memory is of a long campaign where a quiet bid of oil for turn order or a convoy left unguarded decided the war hours later.