"Victory in Normandy", is a two-player wargame simulation covering the fighting in France from 7 June (D-Day+1) to 25 August 1944 (D-Day+80, the fall of Paris), using daily turns. The 17x22" map shows the area from Brest to Paris, and from Cherbourg to the Loire River. The main units of maneuver are divisions, along with corps artillery and support units....
Small game, published on Tactics magazine in Japan. Though it is really a small magazine game, this game covers all aspects of galactic warfare. The key point is that at the start every power has really very limited capacity. Because of this reason, the small map is really big enough for expanding, and even the regular capacity for other game is really a...
Victory in the West: Plan Yellow, The French Campaign 1940, is a realistic two-player game that accurately recreates the 1940 campaign in all its aspects except one: the outcome is totally up to you. The game's centerpiece is an options system that lets the Allied player trade Victory Points for changes to his armies and policies that might (or might not)...
Victory in Vietnam is a strategy game covering the US war in Vietnam from 1964 until 1975. It is based around actual events and the US OpPlan 32 plus various histories of the war. The game offers players a wide range of strategic options to choose from. Optional rules and events allow nuclear weapon use, Soviet and Chinese participation and much more. Also...
The Victory Is Ours!: Napoleonic ruleset in Fratt’s Battle Manual series that focuses on the psychological effect of battle. The philosophy behind the rules is the primacy of human actions as opposed to cumulative material effects of ballistic combat. In the chaos of battle, humans begin to ignore the increasing material flotsam around them and fall back...
A Victory Lost: Crisis in Ukraine, is a simulation of the intense mobile fighting between the Axis and Soviet forces in the southwestern USSR, from the completion of the Soviet encirclement in December 1942 to German Field Marshall von Manstein's famous "Backhand Blow" counterattack. The Soviet forces aims to trap and eliminate the Axis forces that are in...
The Victory of Arminius is a tactical game for two players that depicts one of the most famous battles of the Roman Empire, the action that stopped the empire’s expansion into Germany in A.D. 9, when three Roman Legions were destroyed in fighting with the German tribes. The players take sides, one commanding the Germans, the other the Romans. Each hex is...
This wargamer’s guide provides a comprehensive overview of the American War of Independence (or American Revolution), 1775–1782. The guide includes a series of maps showing the location of major battles by year with accompanying summaries of those battles and of the major campaigns of the war, and additionally it includes details of many lesser-known...
June 1944, the Allies have finally opened the second front demanded by Stalin. The Red Army then launches the Bagration operation. Bringing considerable resources, over 2 million men and 4,000 tanks, it aims to liberate Belorussia. Taken by surprise, the German Army Group Center collapses quickly. The Soviets then advance 600 km in a month, causing an...
Victory: World War II, originally released as Victory: The Blocks of War, is a Block game published in 1998 by Columbia Games. It is a generic war game played on modular maps with World War II units. The game uses a stripped down Front system, with the whole command control element removed and simplified movement and unit production. Block sets for blue...
Without expansion, Victory is a two-player game. The regular expansion blocksets for Victory each contain 50 wooden block units in any of 6 available colors: the red and blue of the base game, or orange, green, gray or black. Expansion blocksets come with a few simple additional rules for multi-player games. Victory 2nd ed. includes elite units in the...
The "Elite" blocksets for Victory: The Blocks of War add additional unit types, and are available in the same player colors as the base game and expansions. Red and blue are the original colors, but green, orange, gray, and black are also available. Note that each color of elite blockset is sold separately, so you'll need at least two elite sets...