We received the following press release.--RL HPS Simulations and John Tiller are proud to announce the release of Kharkov '42, an operational level World War II simulation. Kharkov '42 covers the Soviet Spring Offensive of 1942, which was intended to liberate Kharkov and deal a telling blow to Army Group South. Instead of continuing preparations for Operation Friderikus, Von Paulus' Sixth Army found itself fighting for its life. Kharkov '42 features: 1 km hexes, 2 hour turns, with a master map measuring over 300 by 280 kilometers. Over 1500 units represent the Soviet Southern and SouthWestern Fronts versus the German Army Group South at mainly battalion level. Players control tank, reconnaissance, artillery, infantry, parachute, engineer, antitank, flak, rocket, headquarters, naval, and a wide variety of other specialized units. Scenarios range from a series of 27 starter and intermediate historical scenarios, up to the full 140 turn campaign game. Kharkov '42 can be viewed in either 2d or 3d mode. Supports single person play against the computer, two-person hot-seat, two-person Play-By-E-Mail, and multiplayer network play over LANs and the Internet. Comes with Main Program, full-featured Scenario Editor, and Order of Battle Editor. Complete on-line Help documentation plus on-line printable documentation in Microsoft Word format. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS Pentium-based 133mhz+ PC with 32 megabytes of RAM. 250 megabytes of hard drive space Windows 95/98 operating system. (Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft). Back to 1st Quarter 2001 List of News Items Back to Master List of News Items Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2001 by Coalition Web, Inc. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com