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...
From the website: "NATO air strikes have failed to stop the mass killings in Kosovo or force the Milosovic government to sue for peace. NATO and US forces feel that the only way to stop the "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo is to launch a ground campaign against Serbian forces to not only liberate Kosovo, but to bring about regime change in the Milosovic...
In the late Summer of 1944, the Soviets were poised to invade the Balkans after having inflicted a crushing blow to the Wehrmacht at Belarus. On August 20, 1944, after a period of relative calm in that front, the Soviets opened up their offensive between the Black Sea and the Carpathians. Despite of German counterattacks and setbacks such as Debrecen, by...
In the fall of 1861, General McClellan ordered his subordinate, Charles Pomeroy Stone, to make a demonstration on the West bank of the Potomac 35 miles from Washington DC to see if the Confederates might react. A patrol had mistakenly reported a rebel camp ripe for raiding so Stone, in turn, ordered Colonel Deven to advance on the supposed camp. Having...