In early 1864, Union Gen. Nathaniel Banks led a small army up Louisiana's Red River. His objective, in conjunction with an overland campaign through Arkansas, was the Confederate Trans-Mississippi capital at Shreveport. Poor coordination of the two columns enabled the Confederates to concentrate their slender resources against each in turn. Banks was...
This is a long-waited sequel game of Manstein: A Brilliant Back-Handed Blow. The game starts just after the battle of Kursk in Summer 1943 and ends in March 1944. The game uses the same engine as its predecessor. Each player selects his chits each turn, then draw chits one by one and activate part of the force designated by the chit. The Soviet player must...
Manstein's Triumph is an upcoming game from LPD Games' Campaigns of the Second World War series. From LPD's website: "The struggle to secure Hitler's southern flank went on over the winter of 1941-42. Brilliant use of the Red Navy's Black Sea fleet removed the Odessa army to the great fortress of Sevastopol and landed two Armies on the Kerch Peninsula....
Manstein's War: Decision in the West 1940 is a two-player wargame of the German offensive in Western Europe in May-June 1940 in which the Wehrmacht seized a stunning victory over Allied forces in the Low Countries and France. The game uses a variant of the Boots system to model command, control, and logistics on an operational scale. Both players can fight...
Many Parsecs of Space (working title but yes - pun intended!) is an upcoming space 4X game that reimplements Martin Wallace's innovative deck building mechanic from A Few Acres of Snow. Anyone familiar with AFAoS or Mythotopia will be playing MPoS in minutes, though it's far from a simple reskinning. MPoS takes the core mechanic in an entirely new...
"Maori" is a wargame for one to four players, of clan warfare typical in Polynesia before European contact. Players build war canoes and train warriors (including the elite Royal Guard) to create a force to strike at their adversaries, while protecting or even fortifying their home village. The player is represented on the board as the Head Chieftain- if...
Maori Wars is a simulation of the principal uprisings that took place between 1845 and 1872 due to British colonial incursions into native Maori lands on the North Island of New Zealand. Conflict involved the destruction of numerous villages, pas (strongly fortified villages that featured intricate trench-works) and colonial settlements. The war introduced...
The Spanish Civil War at Sea In summer of 1936 the Spanish Navy was the eighth world naval power, with 2 battleships, 4 cruisers, 15 destroyers and 12 submarines. Following the nation's fate, the Navy was also split in two. War at sea was mostly long and hard convoy warfare blockade, counter-blockade and a few naval surface actions (like the sinking of the...
The Spanish-American War of 1898 was decided at sea, where both navies, with their shortcomings and strengths, gave their best. Cuba & Filipinas is the expansion of Mar Rojo that covers this forgotten conflict. To play Cuba & Filipinas a copy of Mar Rojo is essential. What does the Cuba & Filipinas expansion include: A deck of 50 new fleet cards, including...
Today, a “marathon” is a long race—possibly of 26 miles or so but often different. Or it may be a long session of doing something—nearly anything. There are “movie marathons” and “shopping marathons” and many other kinds, all picking off a word that means “long distance” or “long term.” But originally the word was the name of a small Greek village and...