Beer and Pretzels Urban Combat

Author:
John R. "Buck" Surdu
Cover of BAPUC
Publisher: Self
Date Published: 1982
Period: Modern
Scale: Skirmish
Status: Out of Print
Some limited stock still available by special request.
Notes: Board game.

Beer and Pretzels Urban Combat (BAPUC) was my first attempt to publish a wargame. BAPUC was a skirmish game set in urban environments. The board, while designed myself, looked very much like the SPI game, Sniper. It used a card-based turn sequence. BAPUC was quite fun. The game was written while I was in high school, but it was published while I was a cadet. I can recall hearing people shouting during BAPUC games at the other end of the hallway.

BAPUC map

The development of BAPUC was greatly assisted by Al Slisinger, Nick Cirocco, and others.