Balkan Gambit is a military simulation exploring the alternative-historical premise that the Allied powers have chosen to invade southern Europe via Greece, Albania, and Yugoslavia in the latter half of World War II. Nothing like this actually happened, though the Allies went to great lengths to convince the Axis powers that such plans were intended in...
Balkan Gamble explores hypothetical invasions of the Balkans during WW2. There is also a scenario depicting a hypothetical Soviet invasion of Yugoslavia to unseat Tito in 1950. This is not the same game published in Strategy and Tactics #298, Balkan Gambit, 1943-1945, though they share almost the same title (and the same designer). Instead, it uses the...
Balkan Hell: Bosnia-Herzegovina is a "what-if" simulation of intensified fighting that could have occurred in 1995 in the heart of the former Yugoslavia if the peace process had failed. It posits a campaign of about two weeks. Each hex is 7.5 miles and counters represent anywhere from 800 to 5000 men. It was published in Command Magazine Issue #35 as the...
This book contains a Matrix Game about the Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913 and two sets of tabletop rules (one for land warfare and one for naval warfare) based on the popular Portable Wargame system. This book is divided into three parts and a set of Appendices. Introduction Part One: The Matrix Game Concept (including a short history of the Matrix Game...
Description from the publisher: The Balkan Tragedy is a one-two player game simulating the conflict in the balkans during both the first and second balkan war. This is a more traditional hex and counter War-Game and plays in 90-120 mins for each scenario. The first scenario being the first Balkan War, and the Second Balkan War being the other scenario...
Strategy & Tactics magazine #164. Description from the rule book: Balkan Wars is an operational simulation of the two wars which were fought in the Balkans immediately prior to the First World War. ... There are two scenarios, one each for the First Balkan War and the Second Balkan War. In the first war, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro and Greece fight the...
From the introduction of the rules set: "These rules were written in response to requests to provide a simple, fast-play set of wargames rules to fight the table-top battles that arose in the BALKAN LEAGUE MATRIX GAME (see Wargames Illustrated 66). The rules are intended to be used with 15mm model miniatures (although they can easily be adapted for use...
Relive the First Balkan War in this exciting and quick playing game. Having recently lost Libyan and Adriatic territories to the Italians, the Ottoman Empire has shown its weakness. Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria now see this as their opportunity to expand and claim the Balkans for themselves. Will you maintain the Empire and hold lands held since the 14th...
Four players compete to keep/gain cities of the Ottoman Empire in Europe. The player with most cities under his control after 7 rounds is the winner. The game introduces a 4-outcome mechanism to conclude the result of each attack on a city using a fortune wheel. No dices used at all. Other game mechanisms include cards, pick of advantages from a table...
Balkans 1941 is a game for two players based on the German blitzkrieg into Yugoslavia and Greece in World War II. This set the stage for Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia. One player is the Axis player, the other is the Allied. The Axis player controls all German (including Army, SS and Luftwaffe), Italian, Hungarian and Bulgarian units. The...