No Middle Ground is a board game

Board game

A board game is a game which involves counters or pieces being moved on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules. Games may be based on pure strategy, chance or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve...

 simulating operational level ground combat between Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 and Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

 on the Golan Heights during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. The product is intended as a simple game suitable for novices.

Microgame Design Group (MDG) in 2003

2003 in games

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 issued No Middle Ground in a plastic sleeve with a paper map and unmounted counters

Counter (board wargames)

Boardgame counters are usually small cardboard squares moved around on the map of a wargame to represent armies, military units or individual military personnel. The first modern mass-market wargame, based on cardboard counters and hex-board maps, was Tactics, invented by Charles S. Roberts in 1952...

. MDG in 2004 posted online a downloadable expansion called Target Damascus.

Components

168 unmounted counters representing Israeli and Syrian units and informational pieces; a 11" by 17" hexagon-patterned map, a rulebook, and two players' aid sheets. The game requires but does not include a six-sided die.

Credits

Game Design: Paul Rohrbaugh

Graphics: Kerry Anderson, Paul Rohrbaugh

Editing: Kerry Anderson, Peter Schutze

Playtesting: Brian Brennan, Joe Bowser, Peter Schutze, Stefan Anton Federsel

Expansions

A No Middle Ground expansion set titled Target Damascus was briefly posted for download from MDG, but with MDG's closure the files are no longer available.

Sources

• Elusive Victory: The Arab-Israeli Wars, 1947-1974, by Trevor N. Dupuy
  Trevor N. Dupuy
  Trevor Nevitt Dupuy was a Colonel, United States Army, retired, soldier and noted military historian.-Biography:Born in New York, the son of noted military historian, R. Ernest Dupuy, Trevor followed in his father's footsteps. Trevor Dupuy attended West Point, graduating in the class of 1938....
  
  , Harper and Row, New York, 1978
• Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness 1948-1991, by Kenneth M. Pollack, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2002
• Games of the Golan, by John D. Burtt in Paper Wars
  Paper Wars
  Paper Wars is a bimonthly wargaming magazine published by Omega Games, a producer of military simulation board games, card games for business education, and general-interest card games. The magazine's editor is John Burtt...
  
  #62, July 2006

External links

• No Middle Ground at Web-Grognards
• No Middle Ground at ConsimWorld