From the MicroDesign Group Website. THE GREAT IDEA World War I (1914-1918) left both Greece and Türkey near ruin. By 1920, Greece was emerging from what amounted to a civil war between supporters and opponents of the visionary but reckless prime minister, Elefthérios Venizélos. Türkey's civil war was still in progress, fought between the last, heartbroken...
Caballeros del Aire (Knights of the Air) is a highly tactical game based on the exploits of fighter pilots during World War I, such as the Red Baron (Barón Rojo). The difficulties faced by these men in their risky missions are faithfully recreated. (Translated from game catalogue). NAC was clearly improving its games and making them more varied when...
From the Rules Folder: CAMBRAI, 1917: The First Blitzkrieg In the pre-dawn darkness of 20 November, 1917, 378 British tanks and eleven divisions of infantry mounted the first truly mobile offensive in history, overrunning German positions with a rapidity comparable to the Blitzkriegs of the Second World War. Only a tenacious German defense-in-depth and an...
A set of miniatures wargames rules. Scale: 1/300 to 1/72 "These Rules are a development of the World War II Infantry Action Set published by Leicester Micro Models, of which they form a Second Edition. They have been developed and extended to cover the period 1917 to 1967 by the inclusion of additional weapons, and modified to enable large scale micro tank...
Camouflage is a card game from 1918. It consists of a deck of 56 cards. There are five cards each of nine different weapons of war: Airplane Gun, Tank, Howitzer, Mortar, Field Gun, Machine Gun, Rifle, Revolver and Bomb (hand grenade). There are 11 Camouflage cards, showing a camouflage pattern. Each player is dealt one card. The first player is then dealt...
Multi-map conflict simulation covering the German initial attack on Liege and their drive into Belgium and France in WW I until the end of November 1914. Intermediate complexity yet very playable with unique no-dice system. Divisional-Brigade level with step-reduction. Limited intelligence and FOW, unit cohesion effects, approx. 5 miles per hex, 2 day...
Canvas Falcons Triplane: Air to Air Combat in World War One 1914-1918 Legion Condor: Air to Air Combat in Spain and China 1936-1939 This game is designed to be a good simulation of air to air combat; however it is also a role playing game of sorts. Each player controls a single aircraft. The aircraft are "flown" using 3 wheeled trolleys or stands to...
Caporetto, 1917 Catastrophe for Italy By the standards of the Great War, Caporetto was a remarkable battle. Within a month, the Austro-Germans inflicted over 300,000 Italian casualties at a loss to themselves of only 100,000, and had shifted the front over 100 miles. But they fell short of a decisive victory. Caporetto recreates this spectacular offensive....
Subtitle: Four World War I Battles This is actually 4 games in one. A "fifth wheel" to the series (using the same standard rules) was the Strategy & Tactics magazine game Tannenberg. Series designer: David C. Isby Author of historical article: Richard Spence Serbia/Galicia: Austria-Hungary at War, 1914: Austria-Hungary must decide how to allocate its...
For sure the most famous battle on the Italian Front during the Great War, and a pivotal event of the war on this front. "Caporetto" is a confrontation between two different ways to make war: infiltration tactics against static defense. Caporetto, 1917 is the third game on a battle on the Italian Front, after Strafexpedition, 1916 and Gorizia, 1916, using...
Caporetto: The Italian Front 1917–1918 is a two-player wargame of the last year of the Italian Front, from the Central Powers’ offensive of the Fall of 1917 until the end of the war in October 1918. In this game, both players command two powerful but fragile forces: the armies of Italy and Austria-Hungary that, in the last year of the war, were at the end...