The game is set during World War Two, where you are a German tank commander who has to get his battle-worn tank safely back to friendly faces. The only way back is through a small village, but this contains elements of enemy infantry. It is a card driven game, and there are two types of card. Terrain cards, which is the pack you are trying to go through as...
It is late 1942 and the seas are dangerous and frightening. Allied convoys surge across the Atlantic, bringing vital supplies to Britain and Russia. But beneath the waves, Germany’s U-Boats are on the hunt, silent and deadly. You are the commander of a Type VIIC U-Boat, the backbone of the Kriegsmarine’s submarine fleet. Your mission is to intercept and...
Lone Wolf is a solo Print-And-Play (PNP) game that puts you in the role of a German U-boat commander operating in the Atlantic during World War II. As captain, your mission is to patrol dangerous waters, locate and sink Allied shipping, avoid detection, and survive long enough to return to base. Each game plays out over a series of turns in which you'll...
Summary; Based upon the Lone Wolf Solo Roleplaying Gamebooks by Joe Dever, Lone Wolf the Skirmish Game lets players recreate the epic battles set in the world of Magnamund. Holmgard Games have created a simple to use skirmish rules based system to compliment the launch of it's new 28mm miniatures range launching on Kickstarter. Combining tactical round &...
Lone Wolf: Vengeance of the Kai is an asymmetrical 2-player strategy game set in the world of Lone Wolf - the fantasy setting of the epic game book series first launched 40 years ago. It encompasses the storyline of the first 12 books in the series, allowing players to relive the decisive battle between good (Lone Wolf and the Freeland Alliance) and evil...
Lonely Mountain is an adventure game played by 1 to 6 players. Each player controls a group of adventurers attempting to sneak into the Lonely Mountain (Erebor) and steal as much loot as possible. However, they must escape before Smaug the Dragon awakens, discovers their trespasses, and slays them all. The game takes place relatively soon after Smaug...
'The people of Massilia were worn out by all their misfortunes. They had been reduced to a catastrophic lack of food supplies, defeated in two naval battles, routed in frequent sorties, and even afflicted by a terrible epidemic caused by their long confinement and change of diet' Caesar, Civil War, book 2, 10.22.1 (translated by Kurt A. Raaflaub) A Long...
“The war didn’t make sense anymore. We all thought it was bullshit. We weren’t solving anything, we weren’t helping to win the war. We were just there, and it basically came down to staying alive and keeping your buddies alive.” –Pfc. Edward W. Voros, Company A, 46th Infantry, Americal Division, March 1971. For most Americans, by the Spring of 1971, the...
“If I’d known the Russians had so many tanks I would not have attacked!” --Adolf Hitler A Long, Hard Road: The Battle of Dubno is a moderate complexity level wargame simulation of the first major clash of large armored formations on the East Front. After launching Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22nd, the First Panzer Group...
Long Knives was a set of rules published by Greenfield Hobby Distributors and written by Jim Birdseye. They were a simple but effective set of rules that depicted Indian vs Cavalry actions in the old west. No counters came with the game as they were primarily printed with the use of miniatures in mind. Catalogue Description. Basic rules for skirmish...
Found in issue #7 of Little Wars magazine, fall 1977 (the game is also described in the rules as “Baselisk Game #2"). Tactical Studies Rules (TSR) published a total of twelve issues of Little Wars magazine from 1976 to 1978 before folding it into The Dragon. Components 1 11x17” area map of China and Southeast Asia 160 uncut, unmounted counters 4 pages of...