Blocks in the East and Blocks in the West were designed by Emanuele Santandrea and published in 2012 and 2013, respectively, by VentoNuovo Games. It is owned and copyrighted by VentoNuovo Games, and I present it as a Vassal module with their permission. Please visit the VentoNuovo website at http://www.ventonuovo.net/. You can find the latest rules there. This Vassal mod was created by Filip Labarque in 2013.

Module notes

After selecting one of the pre-defined scenarios, all units are in the correct position on the map, on the Setup Sheets and on the Reinforcement Sheets as per the scenario. Since there are no Reinforcement Sheets in BITW, I’ve put the reinforcements in the correct position on the Turn Track. When selecting the “New” setup no units are in place and you can drag and drop them from the Pieces panel.

After selecting a setup, you can select which side you want to play as: Axis, Allies or Solo.

Once the game opens you see this menu bar:

Once you start an online game, you can (and probably should) hide you pieces from the opponent by clicking on the respective Hide Axis/Allies button. You can see when your units are hidden by the white outline around the unit. Note that you cannot manipulate the pieces of the opponent.

When playing solo you can hide/reveal the units of each side by clicking on the corresponding Hide Axis/Allies Solo. When in solo mode, you can manipulate all pieces.

Each unit has a right-click menu:

This shows what manipulations you can do on the units.