"The ferocity and insolence of these black-souled barbarians makes one shudder. It is an abominable kind of war. The air one breathes is contagious of insensibility and hardness." -Louis Antoine, Comte de Bougainville An Abominable Kind of War, presents the players with a juxtaposition; on the one hand, you have the stylized warfare of 18th century Europe...
Game background: In 1910, the Governor-General of Taiwan, Sakuma Samata, planned to conquer the aboriginal tribes by force. The Japanese police began to suppress the aboriginals of Taiwan by force, forcing them to submit and surrender. This was the "Five-Year Aboriginal Management Plan"! The five-year Aboriginal Management Plan planned to achieve the...
Above the Clouds! is a set of air-combat miniature wargame rules for fighting large air battles from the late 1930s through the 1970s. The rules are intended to produce a free-flowing and fast game to represent air combat. Although air warfare is a very technical form of combat, rules which focus too much on the technical details quickly lose the "feel" of...
Fall Weiss is the first expansion for the Above the Clouds! air-combat miniature wargame rules. Fall Weiss covers the earliest period of World War II, the Polish campaign (1939), the "Winter War" between Finland and Russia (1939-1940), and the "Sitz-krieg" (the waiting-war between France-Britain and Germany from 1939 through early 1940). Fall Weiss...
On June 14th, 1943, the Combined Chiefs of Staff issued the Pointblank directive, which authorized the initiation of Operation Pointblank, the code name for the primary portion of the Allied Combined Bomber Offensive intended to cripple or destroy the German aircraft fighter strength, thus drawing it away from frontline operations and ensuring it would not...