Game description from the publisher: It is 1815 and the world has been turned upside down. Napoleon Bonaparte has finally been defeated after nearly conquering all of Europe through years of devastating warfare. Now the Great Powers must deal with the chaos left behind. As each nation eagerly tries to grow, a careful balance of governmental, military and...
Balance of Power are a set of horse and musket rules that allow players to fight battles with multiple corps per side in a reasonable amount of time. Each turn is 15 minutes, each infantry unit approx 1000 men, each cavalry unit approx 500 and each artillery unit 12 guns. The rules emphasise easy to play game mechanics at the unit level so that a large...
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. -For the Fallen, by Robert Laurence Binyon Balance of Powers pays fitting tribute to the fallen with a respectful presentation of their bitter struggles in the air, on land, and at...
Wait a minute. Don't we mean BLACK Friday? Nope. It's "Balck Friday," as in German General Hermann Balck. In the winter of 1942, his crack 11th Panzer Division fought an amazing series of battles along the Chir River in response to the Soviet surprise attacks that surrounded Stalingrad. It has been called one of the finest divisional actions of all time....
Low complexity WW2 wargame covering the facist invasion of the Balkans (Yugoslavia and Greece) 1941. Players take turns moving their forces and attacking enemy units The historical imbalance is accounted for by different victory objectives and a tight timetable: The Facist player must occupy the enemy cities to win while the Allied player is focussed on...
Balkan Front is a detailed simulation of the Axis campaigns of conquest in the Balkans, from autumn 1940 to summer 1941. It covers the failed Italian invasion of Greece, the German blitzkrieg that overran Yugoslavia and Greece, and the German airborne assault on Crete. First (1990) Edition Game components: Two maps (in two full sheets as 14A & 15B or six...
The first Grand Europa module, Wavell's War is a module that links Europa games Balkan Front and War in the Desert together with East Africa. Ownership of both Balkan Front and War in the Desert is required for a complete play of WW, covering 1940 to 1943. It also updates Balkan Front and War in the Desert rules and counters to the latest Europa standards....
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...