The Third Winter: The Campaign for the Ukraine, September 1943 - April 1944, begins with the “Race to the Dnepr,” as Army Group South rushed to a secure defensive position behind one of Europe’s largest rivers. Four powerful Soviet Fronts must be used in close cooperation to overcome the Axis forces, which include two Panzer Armies. The game contains 85%...
Southern Front: Race for the Turkish Straits: Game Two in the Third World War series, although it uses the same rules, is very different from its parent. Bulgaria and Romania, reinforced with three Soviet armies and special-capability forces, face Greece, Turkey, and Yugoslavia, thinly reinforced with a few elite units from the U.S., France, and Italy. The...
The Third World War: Battle for Germany: is a game of the struggle for central Europe by the forces of NATO and the Warsaw Pact. The divisions and independent regiments and brigades of fifteen nations battle in multi-impulse turns that feature NATO reserve movement and Pact echeloning. Air units represent groups of 100 aircraft of a specific type, each...
The Third World War, Designer Signature Edition features many new enhancements, larger counters, and combined game rules to cover all four games in the series. The complete Third World War game series includes all four games in one box. Third World War (subtitled Battle for Germany) is a game of the struggle for central Europe by the forces of NATO and the...
Battle for Cuba in the fading days of the Cold War. The objective is, as the Cuban player, to delay NATO reinforcements to Europe in the Third World War. Each side has a fixed set of units (counters) to either take over or defend Cuba in the Cold War. "Cuban Front, Battle for Cuba" is a Fan Expansion based on a wargame published by Game Design Workshop...
'Arctic Front: Battle for Norway' is the third game of the Third World War series, uses the same rules as its predecessors but presents a very different gaming situation. The Soviet Leningrad Front, with its special airborne, amphibious, and arctic-equipped contingents, assaults Norway, reinforced with a few elite units from the U.S., Britain, Canada, and...
Persian Gulf: Battle for the Middle East: Persian Gulf uses the same rules as the other games in the Third World War series to show a different aspect of modern warfare operations in the deserts and mountains of the middle east. Persian Gulf includes a special "game within a game", covering the diplomatic, political, and military maneuvers by the Soviet...
"The Third World War: Alternative Naval Ruleset", published by Compass Games in Paper Wars #106, is an alternative set of naval rules developed by Dominic Warren, Greg Warren, and Eric Farago. Some rules include adding and adjusting naval zones, a map overlay depicting the new Danish Straits naval zone, allowing the Soviets to send raiders to interdict...
1989: Worsening tension in East Asia brings old adversaries closer to war. Europe stands on the brink of Armageddon. Destabilization in the Persian Gulf causes regimes to teeter on the brink of collapse. Will East Asia be the spark to start the firestorm that is World War 3? This design expands the theaters involved in the Third World War, Designer...
Strategy and conquest in Ming Dynasty China 36 stratagems is a game for 2-3 players, which is set in the Ming Dynasty era in China and neighbouring states. You are the leader of one of several rival families aspiring to become emperor of the entire region. You start the game in a capital city, with just an aspiring emperor, a scout and a small army. The...
Thirty Years of Misery is an easy to play game on the Thirty Years War of 1618-1648 for up to 4 players. Players on the same side must coordinate and work together to win the war, but the victory conditions only allow a single faction within the victorious alliance to win the game. Carddriven mechanics with lots of events, random chit pull based turn order...