"Losing Tobruk was one of the heaviest blows I can recall during the war.” — Winston Churchill Desert Blitzkrieg is an Operational level two-player board-wargame covering the North African desert Campaign from April 1941 to December 1942. Units are regimental level and Divisional Integrity is key to maximizing the density of your forces on the map covering...
Free print-and-play. Division and independent brigade level - few units and fast play - 7.5mis/12kms per hex which is larger than AH's Afrika Korps. Campaign game has 4 11x17/A3 component mapsheets perfect for the scale. Campaign game has 45 half-month turns - IIFeb41-IIDec42 - and could be long, but many turns may be spent just fortifying and rebuilding...
Desert Carnage: The Second Battle of Nanawa, July 1933 covers the three day battle between Bolivia and Paraguay during the long Chaco War. The Chaco War remains the only declared war among South American nations in the 20th Century. In brief, Bolivia wanted access to the Atlantic, and de-manded Paraguay cede territory. The earlier discoveries of minerals...
A Most Bitter Blow - Operation Battleaxe, June 1941 -The famous Tiger Convoy of May 1941 brought over two hundred tanks and fifty Hurricane fighters to Wavell’s command in North Africa – and an increased expectation from Churchill of an imminent offensive. General Wavell had reservations about the operation but reluctantly gave the green light. After early...
An LPS bonus mini-game for two-players, Desert Duel, by designer Mike Rinella, looks at the first battle of Alamein in 1942, where modern armies fought each other and the desert, in a desperate effort to breakthrough to or defend the path to the Nile. This is not the Monty vs. Rommel El Alamein battle most people think of but an earlier action, July 1 to...
“Yakum purkan min shemaya.” (Salvation will come from heaven). –Line from an Aramaic prayer. Desert Eagles is an introductory level game about aerial combat set in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Israel’s victory in this war assured its status as an independent nation, and set off decades of conflict with its Arab neighbors that lasts to this day. Each copy of...
"Desert Fox" is a Division/Regiment/Battalion level simulation of the war for Egypt and Libya from Sept 1940 to January 1943. There are three mini-wargames and one long campaign wargame which the rules state "It is very lengthy and is recommended for fanatics only, or those with time to spare"! The game includes a bright desert yellow 44" x 15" five colour...
Desert Fox is a brigade level simulation of the war in North Africa from the arrival of Erwin Rommel in March of 1941 until the end of 1942 when the Allies, landing amphibious forces in Western Africa, blockaded any chances for future Axis offensives in North Africa. The Axis player attempts to secure Libya and Egypt by seizing Alexandria, while the...
This game covers the Crusader battles. On December 9, 1940, British forces launched Operation Compass, forcing the withdrawal of Italian forces from North Africa. In February 1941, Hitler decided to dispatch the German Afrika Korps to North Africa. Rommel's Afrika Korps immediately launched a counterattack, encircling Tobruk in Libya. On the other hand...
Fox Killed is an expansion of The Desert Fox wargame appearing in Strategy & Tactics magazine nr 87. Fox Killed simulates war between Britain and Italy in North Africa from the start of Graziani’s offensive into Egypt in September of 1940 up to February 1941, when the arrival of German forces in Tripolitania and the transfer of British forces to Greece...
Desert Fox Deluxe is a combination of two previously published games covering parts of the North African campaign–Desert Fox and Trail of the Fox–expanded with additional rules, units, and maps to cover the entire war in the North African desert from the Italian invasion of Egypt in 1940 to the final Allied clearance of Africa in 1943. The map scale is 10...