Hill is a chess-like battle game for 2 or 3 players who control armies made of Airplanes, Cannons, and Tanks. The first player to plant his Flag (King) in the center circle wins. Enemy pieces can be captured by entering their space. Planes are like chess Queens and Cannons are like Rooks. Tanks can move only two spaces. There is also a Trench which is a...
Hill 226 is a small solitaire wargame set during an episode of the Battle of Kursk, when the Totenkopf Division, part of the II SS Panzer Corps, was tasked with capturing the town of Prokhorovka. To achieve this objective, they first had to secure Hill 226.6. The game is played over 8 turns, representing the 8 hours available to accomplish the mission, on...
A companion game to Stamford Bridge: End of the Viking Age in the same "Shields & Swords" series, A Hill Near Hastings: The Beginning of the Norman Conquests recreates *the* battle that will forever be tied to the year 1066. This game sees the addition of cavalry and bow units to the "Shields & Swords" system, and features special rules that recreate, in a...
The Hill of Death is the first game in the new "Shattered Union" American Civil War series by Tiny Battle Publishing. The series is designed to be accessible and fast-playing, suitable for gamers of any experience level. It is based firmly within the core design philosophy of the Blind Swords and Black Swan systems, but will focus on more obscure or...
Strategic Situation: HILL OF DOVES is a solitaire boardgame in which the player controls an Imperial British Army at war with a programmed non-player Transvaal Republican Army in 1881. The British army’s aim is to win the war by controlling the area known as Laing’s Nek which lies on the border between Natal and the Transvaal. The British army has up to...
[from a session report] The game is basically a miniatures game, but based on H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Each player has a "family" of misfits who are seeking to locate the legendary Necromonicon and bring it safely to their lair. Of course, to do this, they must do battle with the other families, attempting to slaughter them before they can find the...
Hind Commander deals with interesting, but difficult field – helicopter actions over the modern frontlines. The rulebook (fine printed, 100 pages and sheets with full-color counters ) and 1/600 miniatures may be purchased from Assault Publishing web store. Hind Commander has a lot of advantages which make playing it fun, challenging and unique: •a...
Hind Commander: Urban Creatures (HCUC) is a Solitaire- or up to 4-Player cooperative game from Robert J. FRITZ inspired by the miniature game "Hind Commander" by Marcin Gerkowics (Assault Publishing). The Player/s fly combat helicopters and have to eliminate a creature (according to the given scenario) before more than 50 % of the concerned town has been...
Hind & Seek is a ruleset all about asymmetrical warfare and is aimed at company to battalion sized games, in 6mm or 3mm scale. Larger scales can be used just as easily, from 10mm and 15mm, up to 1/72 scale. These rules are based on the real-life accounts of actual combatants, largely from the books The Bear Went over the Mountain and The Other Side of the...
"You are assigned a new and difficult task… I know no other man in which I have such limitless faith as I have in you. Perhaps you will still be able to save the day in the east… The Kaiser, too, has faith in you… Therefore, take up your new post, which is the greatest that can be granted to a soldier. You will not betray the trust placed in you." Helmuth...
Hindenburg’s War: Decision in the Trenches, 1918 (HW) is a strategic-level, two-player wargame of low complexity that covers the fighting on World War I’s western front during that final year of the war, from the start of the first German offensive on 21 March through Armistice Day on 11 November. The game’s sub-systems are crafted to present a...
From the editor's website: Hinge of Fate is primarily meant to examine the strategic alternative history possibilities inherent in the campaign that could’ve occurred within Poland and the Rhineland in September 1939 if the French had resolved to keep their promise to launch a “major offensive” into Germany within a week after that nation invaded Poland....