GMT's fifth epic game in its award-winning series of east front games, Barbarossa: Kiev to Rostov. This is a two-player, or two-team, operational level game depicting the battles of the southern wing of the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union during 1941. This game picks up where an earlier game in this series, Barbarossa: Army Group South, left off. It...
My proposed successor to a Moscow-Campaign-scale/-type game, Barbarossa's Climax: Moscow 1941, available as a free print (off, assemble,) and play game at www.CoatneyHistory.com/BarbClim.htm . As relatively simple as it is, it is still a 4-player afternoon-and-evening - weekend - game. There *is* a system-introducing Battle for Tula subgame with it (like...
A solitaire game simulating the Nazi-Soviet conflict on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945. The Player moves the German forces against a simulated Russian enemy. As time passes the Nazi forces gradually weaken, while the Soviet counter-attacks gather pace. Each year is split into 3 turns: Winter, Summer and Autumn. Game starts with Summer 1941 and ends at...
On June 22, 1941, before dawn, German tanks and guns began firing across the Russian border. It was the beginning of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, one of the most brutal campaigns in the history of warfare. Four years later, the victorious Red Army has suffered a loss of seven million lives. The Barbarossa campaign included some of the greatest episodes...
For shame, for shame, light infantry. I never saw you retreat before. Form! Form! It’s only a scouting probe!” --General Howe, a little before 7:00 AM upon seeing, out of the fog, the headlong retreat of the 2nd Light Infantry pickets. Moments later he and his staff came under sustained American artillery fire. A Barbarous Ground is a simulation of the...
As described on the back cover: "Take a side in the first war against terror fought by the young United States against the Barabary [sic] Coast Nations. Historically the War lasted from 1801 till about 1806. The War started when the Barabary [sic] Nations would board vessels that flew the US flag and take those US citizens as slaves. The U.S. DID at first...
From the Guild of Blades "Empires of History" series of Axis and Allies style historical games. Based very loosely on America's war with the Barbary pirates. This new edition features a color box and color components. In addition, boarding combat and ports are now represented by separate mapsheets. From the back of the box: "Take a side in the first war...
A set of fast play rules for late ironclad/early pre-dreadnought fleet battles of the 1870s and 1880s. Based on the successful Dahlgren and Columbiad system, the rules include a completely revised stat system to reflect the far larger, more heavily armoured and heavily armed ships of the era. Included with the rule are ship statistics for British, French...