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...
From their website: Napoleonic Wargames Rules. March Attack are presented as an 80 page A4, full colour, perfect bound book. The rules are designed to allow players to fight large battles with battalion sized units in a reasonable amount of time. Command and control, orders and morale for large formations are combined with easy to learn tactical game...
March and Fight or Die ! are the Small War Skirmish rules for the colonial era from roughly the 1850s to the 1920s. French Foreign Legion, the British and German Schutztruppen are all covered and so are their enemies. Without heavy weapons 2-4 players can play on a card table. Small War Games Skirmish series games are designed to be played in an area the...