“There's a valley in Spain called Jarama. it's a place that we all know so well. It was there that we fought against the fascists. We saw a peaceful valley turn to hell.”—Excerpt from Woody Guthrie’s song Battle of Jarama. After failing to take Madrid in November, Francisco Franco ordered his forces to cut off the former capital city and now symbol of...
Saddam Moves South (SMS) is an operational level two player wargame covering a hypothetical Iraqi invasion of Saudi Arabia in 1990. The assumption here is that after the Iraqi army overran Kuwait in the first week of August 1990, Saddam Hussein continued the offensive to grab the vital oilfields of Saudi Arabia. In response, the United States leads a...
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of my Shootin Iron miniature game, I decided to revise and rename the original 1st edition of the game. Upon rereading, I actually think the 1st edition was a more unique...and possibly better, game. I hope you enjoy reading and playing it as much as I do. Revisiting and replaying this has been a joy, and reminded me of the...
Sadowa covers the one day battle (spread over 13 turns) between the Prussians and the Austrians (and their Saxon allies) during the 1866 Bohemian campaign. Standard game (4 pages of rules), and a more advanced game with setup information (an additional 4 rules pages) with simultaneous plotting and some minor changes to the core system. Units represent...
Sadowa: a name that sounded like a thunderclap at the turn of the 19th century. Also known as Königgrätz in the German world, it was the largest battle in the Western world after the Napoleonic Wars and up until World War I. It also marked, and contrary to what all observers expected, the fall of the power that had dominated the Germanic world for four...
A person could make the case that Sadowa is the single most significant battle in the last 200 years. What? An unheard-of campaign from an almost overlooked war(Austria v Prussia, 1866)? But consider... if the Austrians had won at Sadowa, there might not have been a powerful Prussia, who beats the French in 1870, unites Germany, and competes with Great...
Part of TSR's minigame series. From the rulebook... "Saga minigame recreates a mythical time period occuring sometime after the fall of Rome - the age of heroes and vikings! Each player takes a heroic figure and attempts to perform deeds that will generate enough glory to ensure that the hero's memory will live in the sagas composed after his or her death....
Note that there are two editions of Saga. Saga 1st edition was released in 2011. Saga 2nd edition was released in 2018. For more information about the second edition of Saga (aka Saga II or Saga v2), you can Click Here. Gripping Beast's Dark Ages miniatures skirmish. Each side has between 25 to 73 miniatures, organised into groups of 4-12 figures....
“Varjazi & Basileus” is a supplement for Saga that features a 12 page full color rule booklet containing rules and lists for the Pagan Rus, the Era Of The Princes Rus and the Byzantines (as originally featured in a long sold-out issue of Wargames Illustrated.) There is also a new Hero Of The Viking Age for the Byzantines and a new Swords For Hire unit. The...