publisher's description From its conception, the Blue Sky Game Series was designed to be an expandable system that would allow players to simulate and explore the challenges of aerial warfare throughout the 20th century. With this supplement players can now field Polish, French, and Dutch aircraft. All the maps, info counters, charts, dice and Flight...
Division-Regiment level combat in World War I. The Allies must blast their way through the thinly-held German trench lines. Strafing airplanes, artillery barrages, and advancing tanks all help. The Germans must hold out, counterattacking only where necessary, and moving their regiments and divisions so as to block the Allies' advance until reinforcements...
This hypothetical game studies what would have happened if World War One had been fought into 1919. The Western Entente will bring massed tanks, mechanized infantry, fresh American divisions, and paratroops into battle to create the dynamic breakthrough that will end the stalemate of trench warfare. The German Army, dug in for long months, will hold...
Toussaint L’Ouverture and the slave insurrections in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), the richest trading colony in the new world, shocked and terrified Western Nations. Not since Spartacus had slave rebellions succeeded on such a grand scale. However, this story cannot be confined to a single leader like Toussaint. It is far more complicated, riddled with...
Black Eagles Over Belgium: Blucher vs. Napoleon, 1815 is a hex-and-counter wargame covering the Belgium led battles taking place near Waterloo. The game includes three scenarios, the Battle of Ligny, the Battle of Wavre, and the Battle of Plancenoit. A combined campaign is also included with additional rules for movement between the maps. Black Eagles Over...
It is May 1917 and you are in command of No. 10 (Naval) Squadron. A few weeks ago, the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) experienced the disaster of "Bloody April". Approximately 250 pilots were lost in combat against Germany’s best, including the famous Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen. The RFC begged for relief and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) stepped in...
Black Gold (Texas Tea), the sister game Mississippi Banzai , is yet another in XTR's many alternate-history wargames. This one takes its cue from the post WW2 oddness of Tomorrow the World. It's 1948 in the alternative-world where the Germans and Japanese won WW2, conquering our entire planet. Now they intend to square off against each other in one final...
Black Hand was a name given to an extortion method used in Italian neighborhoods at the turn of the 20th century. This is a thematic card driven mafia game! Each player is the Godfather of one of the five families in New York, well known as Cosa Nostra. The game is played in 5 rounds, each starting with a variety of real events! The game includes combat...
Forget about range, cover, and terrain - on this virtual battlefield you trade trenches for subnets and fire support for computer daemons. The battles on the network aren't fought with soldiers, they're fought with runners: hackers who compete over lucrative data servers, filled with corporate secrets. Black Hats is a head-to-head skirmish-sized tactics...
“The island is lousy with Nips” –February 27th Message from the US Alamo Scouts to General Walter Krueger that more Japanese were on Los Negros island than reported. Before fleeing Corregidor, General Douglas MacArthur pledged to return to the Philippines. It was first necessary to retake New Guinea and at least neutralize the Japanese fortified base at...
Little Big Horn wasn't the only battle. Two other major battles (Rosebud Creek and Slim Buttes) and eight further battles were needed to suppress the Sioux and other tribal peoples who defended their homelands with both consummate skill and enduring courage. A block styled war game that takes fog of war to another level through the use of command blocks...