This is a small wargame of Operation Pointblank, included in "This Sim-Game is Awsome! 2017", an annual zine of wargame review. Operation Pointblank is the US 8th Air Force's strategic bombing campaign of Germany between February and December of 1944. One player is cast in the role of the US 8th Air Force planners, allocating bombers and their fighter...
“Time is now against Iran.” –Chairman and de facto commander-in-chief, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s comment following Operation Praying Mantis. Following the destruction of Iran Air Flight 655 by the US, fully loaded with pilgrims on their way to Mecca for the Haj, the Iranian military vowed revenge against the “Great Satan”. With Grand Ayatollah Khomeni...
A postcard game distributed in BANZAI Magazine No. 14, first game of the irregular series "World Bad Strategy". The Swedish army, along with the Danish army, planned an operation to retake Denmark on May 18, 1945, but by then the war had ended with Germany's surrender. What if the plan is activated a little earlier than planned? Or what if the end of the...
SGB-22 Operation Rainbow (1986) (JPY 6800) Subtitled both “Pacific War in Another World” and “From Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor by US Navy to Decisive Battle of Marshall”. The box cover has a dramatic picture of the Japanese battleship Nagato slowly turning on its side and billowing smoke while US dive bombers fly overhead ala the USS Arizona. An...
With the re-election of President Ronald Reagan in November of 1984, the Soviet Union realizes that they cannot compete with the military spending of the United States. They end their adventure in Afghanistan and turn their eyes westward. They start by sending covert operatives via commercial airlines throughout the United States to prep for their imminent...
Operation RI is a print and play wargame of moderate complexity for one or two players, simulating the Japanese overland advance on Port Moresby in 1942 and the subsequent Allied counter-offensive. Components (need to be printed, the counters require assembly): Rulebook Charts and tables Set up cards 2 x maps (recommended print size 11" x 17" each) 1 x...
Operation Rolling Thunder is an Operational level board-wargame that recreates the historical bombing campaign conducted by the US Air Force and the US Navy over North Vietnam during the period spanning from 1965 to 1968. The game accommodates both solitaire and cooperative play (in which one player assumes command of the US Air Force, while the other...
"Operation Rösselsprung" is an anti-partisan operation launched by German forces against the Yugoslav resistance between May 25 and June 3, 1944. This combined operation between the air and ground forces aims to seize - dead or alive - the chief of the resistance Josip Broz known as "Tito", whose hiding place was located in the village of Drvar in Bosnia...
Operation Sea Lion is available on the issue nº 49 of the spanish miniatures magazine "Wargames, Soldados y Estrategia". Its a small wargame that simulates a "what if?" invasion of Great Britain by the German forces in September 1940. The board is sized as an A4 page (29,7x21 cm) with the counters on another page the same size. The counters represent...
From the web-site description: "It is the year 1940. France has surrendered. The British and the remains of the French Army have retreated across the English Channel. Germany now controls the whole of Western Europe. The United Kingdom stands alone, waiting for the Germans to strike. Hitler approves plans for an upcoming invasion of the United Kingdom. A...