A simple wargame using counters or miniatures (not supplied) to simulate the battle of Bunker's Hill. Movement and combat are straightforward, with infantry having a short effective firing range, hitting on a roll of 6 on an ordinary die. In melee a simple comparison of combat value is made, with the weaker unit retreating. Artillery units have a long...
The players try to get their officer from their bunker to the opposite one. Each player has 8 soldiers (small discs), 2 machine guns (big discs), 1 sergeant (small pawn) and the officer (large pawn). The pieces move and capture like follows: soldiers: move and capture 1 space straigt or diagonaly forward machineguns: move and capture over any unoccupied...
Arrrr! It's time to set off and find your fortune! Beware of other scurvy dogs while ye do it! Buried Treasure is a 2-4 team game where sides compete with each other search, dig up, and escape with a treasure buried on an unhospitable island. While the game is written from a fantasical pirate point-of-view, you can really substitute is scenario into any...
Burma, 1942-45 is an operational-scale game using brigades and battalions. Play moves in stops and starts as supply and the monsoon may limit operations. The rugged terrain and tenuous supply lines result in a game of maneuver and logistics that players must manage to gain victory. The Japanese can infiltrate the Allied lines while the Allied can release...
Burma - The Campaign for Northern Burma, March-August, 1944, is the sixth game in the Operational Combat Series (OCS) from The Gamers, and covers covers the 1944 campaigns beginning with the Japanese "U-Go" offensive and ending up as what would be know as Imphal-Kohima, the most dramatic defeat ever inflicted on a Japanese army. In the spring of 1944, two...
Burma 1945 is a conflict simulation of the decisive campaign in Burma from November 1944 to May 1945. In this game, the Allies are on the offensive, trying to reconquer most of Burma from the Japanese before the onset of the monsoon season. Each Game Turn represents about 15 days for 12 total turns. Each hex on the map represents 25 miles (some 40...
Burma Masterstroke lets you wargame the British invasion and reconquest of Burma in the spring of 1945. Under William Slim, the XIV Army used Speed, Innovation and Deception to smash the Japanese Area Army in a masterful and often overlooked campaign. The campaign is covered in 10 action packed scenarios featuring the fighting throughout the country. These...
(from GMT games website:) Beginning with the fighting above the Channel convoys and ending with the assault on London and the fighter-bomber offensive, The Burning Blue simulates battles between German air power and the British air defence system. It recreates the tense minute-by-minute 'plotting board' battles between RAF fighter controllers and the...
One of the Great Campaigns of the American Civil War series modules. This one covers Ambrose Burnside's attempt to cross the Rappahannock River in late 1862, a campaign which ended with the Battle of Fredericksburg. Necessary command counters are from The Skirmisher #2 and the maps from Stonewall's Last Battle: The Chancellorsville Campaign and Grant Takes...