
ALT Dark green ARGUS card. Header: "On this day | 4 November 1942". Title: "El Alamein". Text: "Rommel asked Hitler for permission to fall back. No reply came. At 17:30 he ordered the retreat. With no trucks, most Italian infantry were left behind." Gold question: "Did he wait too long?" Footer: "Sources: Playfair (2004); Bierman & Smith (2003), via Wikipedia" and the ARGUS wordmark.

ALT Dark green ARGUS card. Header: "On this day | 3 November 1942". Title: "El Alamein". Text: "Rommel reported his worn-out army could not hold. The answer from Berlin: stand fast, yield not a yard of ground. He ordered the line held." Gold question: "Obey the order or pull back?" Footer: "Source: The Rommel Papers (1953), via Wikipedia" and the ARGUS wordmark.

ALT Dark green ARGUS card. Header: "On this day | 2 November 1943". Title: "Empress Augusta Bay". Text: "Night action off Bougainville, Solomon Islands. Task Force 39 used radar to turn back a Japanese cruiser force sent against the beachhead." Gold question: "Sensors or drills: which carried the night?" Footer: "Source: Naval History and Heritage Command" and the ARGUS wordmark.

ALT p2-ardennes.png alt: Dark ARGUS card titled "Day by day. The map fills in." Three schematic map panels labeled early, mid and late December 1944 in the Ardennes. A front line bulges further west in each panel and more unit markers appear on both sides. Caption: positions replayed from the historical record. Small label: illustration, not a screenshot.

ALT Dark oil-painting style grey dawn sea in rain squalls. Small U.S. warships in the foreground lay white smoke while a line of large Japanese battleships with pagoda masts looms on the horizon, shell splashes nearby. Text: "On this day, 25 October 1944. Off Samar. The battleships were up north, chasing a decoy. First question in any wargame: what's our decoy?"




