The Springing the Trap game expansion module is an add-on to Baiting the Bear (BtB). With Springing the Trap (StT), there are two games that are now playable. The Short Game, which consists of Baiting the Bear alone, and the combined game, which is Baiting the Bear combined with Springing the Trap. The expansion allows players to extend play to include the...
Wait a minute. Don't we mean BLACK Friday? Nope. It's "Balck Friday," as in German General Hermann Balck. In the winter of 1942, his crack 11th Panzer Division fought an amazing series of battles along the Chir River in response to the Soviet surprise attacks that surrounded Stalingrad. It has been called one of the finest divisional actions of all time....
Low complexity WW2 wargame covering the facist invasion of the Balkans (Yugoslavia and Greece) 1941. Players take turns moving their forces and attacking enemy units The historical imbalance is accounted for by different victory objectives and a tight timetable: The Facist player must occupy the enemy cities to win while the Allied player is focussed on...
Balkan Front is a detailed simulation of the Axis campaigns of conquest in the Balkans, from autumn 1940 to summer 1941. It covers the failed Italian invasion of Greece, the German blitzkrieg that overran Yugoslavia and Greece, and the German airborne assault on Crete. First (1990) Edition Game components: Two maps (in two full sheets as 14A & 15B or six...
The first Grand Europa module, Wavell's War is a module that links Europa games Balkan Front and War in the Desert together with East Africa. Ownership of both Balkan Front and War in the Desert is required for a complete play of WW, covering 1940 to 1943. It also updates Balkan Front and War in the Desert rules and counters to the latest Europa standards....
Balkan Gambit is a military simulation exploring the alternative-historical premise that the Allied powers have chosen to invade southern Europe via Greece, Albania, and Yugoslavia in the latter half of World War II. Nothing like this actually happened, though the Allies went to great lengths to convince the Axis powers that such plans were intended in...
Balkan Gamble explores hypothetical invasions of the Balkans during WW2. There is also a scenario depicting a hypothetical Soviet invasion of Yugoslavia to unseat Tito in 1950. This is not the same game published in Strategy and Tactics #298, Balkan Gambit, 1943-1945, though they share almost the same title (and the same designer). Instead, it uses the...
Balkans 1941 is a game for two players based on the German blitzkrieg into Yugoslavia and Greece in World War II. This set the stage for Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia. One player is the Axis player, the other is the Allied. The Axis player controls all German (including Army, SS and Luftwaffe), Italian, Hungarian and Bulgarian units. The...
In the late Summer of 1944, the Soviets were poised to invade the Balkans after having inflicted a crushing blow to the Wehrmacht at Belarus. On August 20, 1944, after a period of relative calm in that front, the Soviets opened up their offensive between the Black Sea and the Carpathians. Despite of German counterattacks and setbacks such as Debrecen, by...
The Baltic Sea was one of the most politically fractured, geographically constrained, and tactically diverse maritime theatres of the Second World War. Unlike the open Atlantic or the island labyrinth of the Aegean, the Baltic was a semi‑enclosed battleground where every coastline was contested and every island mattered. Baltic Cauldron is the first in a...
"Baltic Gap: Summer 1944", depicts the Soviet drive into Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania during the summer of 1944. As the game begins, the defense of Vitebsk, a Byelorussian fortified city located just a few hexes beyond the southeast corner of the playing surface, has just collapsed. 1st Baltic Front is advancing westward through the shredded German line...