"... a drama never surpassed," so wrote Winston Churchill about the Marne Campaign of 1914. The Death of Glory - France 1914 presents battles of the Marne Campaign for Command Decision - Test of Battle. This scenario book contains: a foreward by Greg Novak, a campaign overview, special rules for 1914 battlefields, ten scenarios, orders-of-battle, Battle...
Winston Churchill wrote a book about the eastern front of the Great War, The Unknown War. One-hundred years later, the events and drama of the Great War in the East are still largely unknown. This scenario book presents battles on the eastern front of the Great War during the campaigns of 1914. The ten scenarios focus on maneuver warfare; Austrian, German...
The Great War (1914) It is the summer of 1914. The Archduke Franz Ferdinand (heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) and his wife have just been assassinated in Sarajevo. In retaliation for this offense, Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary has declared war on Serbia, an ally of Russia. This sparks a world of controversy and very quickly...
This is the Army Lists book for the European fronts of World War I. You will need the Contemptible Little Armies rulebook in order to use these lists. Some of the armies are broken down by years as the armies were organized differently during those time frames. Along with the Lists, are several pages of quick references on the armies at the back of the...
This is the Army Lists book for the Middle East and African fronts of World War I. You will need the Contemptible Little Armies rulebook in order to use these lists. Some of the armies are broken down by years as the armies were organized differently during those time frames. Along with the Lists, are several pages of quick references on the armies at the...
"The Zenith of the Battleship 1890-1920" Cordite and Steel is very much a simulation. Even though the mechanics are pretty straightforward (there are only 14 pages of actual rules), there is a great amount of adjudication needed for every shot taken. Players use range estimation and plot their shots by target, distance, number of shots, and spread. Factors...
Dreadnoughts & Battlewagons provides a low complexity ship-to-ship combat system allowing players to explore historical and hypothetical encounters during the age of the super dreadnought. Each counter depicts a single ship or the information markers required to denote a ship’s damage, special ship movement, or configuration. Ships are rated for weight of...
The Cossacks are Coming! is an operational simulation of the World War I Tannenberg campaign in which Russian and German armies battled during August and September of 1914. The game uses weekly turns (each composed of a variable number of impulses), a map scale of five miles per hex, and battalion to brigade level units to portray the conflict. Aspects of...
(from Oregon Consim Games website:) The Cossacks Are Coming! (2nd Edition) is an extensively researched historical model of the Russian invasion of Germany in August and September of 1914. The design is a revision of the original The Cossacks are Coming! (People’s War Games 1982). Based on the 3rd edition Death of Empires rules system the five scenarios...