SPI Cobra: Patton's 1944 Summer Offensive in France ST&T game #65 25% Unpun 1977

This is again another start for alot of game selling (just takes so long to sort count/sort some of these out) and some other stuff that l have bought and it just cluttering up everywhere. I definitely need to declutter.

Some of the games l am selling me and my Dad have had for years as we used the play them when l was kid and others l have collected more recently. I always think that l am going to get back to them and play but it is very unlucky. I will be keeping a few. So hopefully by the end of the year l will have got through and finally counted the bigger games which have literally feels 1000s of counters.

Cobra: Game of the Normandy Breakout, originally titled Cobra: Patton's 1944 Summer offensive in France, is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1977 that simulates the 1944 breakout of Allied forces from Normandy following D-Day.

Following D-Day, German forces prevented an Allied breakthrough, pinning them in a bridgehead which included the Contentin Peninsula of Normandy for seven weeks. In July 1944, while British and Canadian forces engaged the majority of the German panzer divisions east and south of Caen in Operation Goodwood, the First United States Army under the command of Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, assisted by George S. Patton's Third United States Army, launched Operation Cobra against the remaining German forces in their sector, hoping to break out of the bocages of Normandy and into the open countryside of Brittany.

 Cobra is a game in that simulates the summer offensive. Despite only referencing Operation Cobra in its title, the game covers the entire Normandy struggle, both the American "Operation Cobra", and the less successful British/Canadian "Operation Goodwood." It can be played with two players (Germans versus Allies), or as a three-player game, with the American and British/Canadian forces divided between two players.

Game Contents:-

The original SPI pull-out edition contains:-

  • Paper map, 22" x 32", scaled at 1 hex = 3.2 km (2 mi)

  • 200 die cut double-sided cardboard counters - 25% Unpunched
  • 8-page rulebook

This game has been partially played as in good condition  as you can see from the pictures. 

If you have any questions please feel free to ask

I hope these find a happy home and someone will enjoy using this. Again thanks for anyone who bids ;-)

I will combine shipping. I will post overseas but please ask for a quote.