Birth of the Blitzkrieg The German lightning campaigns against Poland in 1939 and the western Allies in 1940 brought the term blitzkrieg into the popular vocabulary and changed the face of warfare forever. This book presents ten exciting and balanced historical battles for Command Decision from both the 1939 Polish Campaign and the 1940 French Campaign...
Blitzkrieg Legions: Fall of the West The book provides detailed orders of battle and unit organizations for Command Decision, including notes on variations in equipment and readiness of the different divisions, of all three major belligerents in the 1940 campaign. The French: Probably the most varied army of World War II, both in terms of organizational...
Crisis in the Ardennes - The Battle of the Bulge 1944 On December 16th, 1944 the German Army launched Operation Wacht am Rhein (Operation Watch on the Rhine). This operation, whose goal was to split the Allied armies and capture Antwerp, was the last major offensive launched by Germany in the West. Known as the "Battle of the Bulge" due to the shape of the...
From Normandy to Lorraine On June 6th, 1944, the Allied invasion of France began, an undertaking that involved 12,000 planes, 7,000 ships, and over 160,000 men on the first day alone. After a brief, but bloody struggle, the beachheads were secured, and the land campaign could begin. The Allied troops would face bitter fighting in the hedgerows of Normandy...
The Return: Leyte October 1944 On the 20th of October American forces landed on the Island of Leyte, fulfilling General Douglas MacArthur's promise to return to the Philippines. This booklet contains campaign rules covering strategic movement, weather and beach assaults for the capture of Leyte by the American 6th Army. Optional rules are also included for...
When Olympus Trembled What's inside: An overview history of Operations Marita, Merkur, and Herkules covering the invasions of Greece, Crete, and the proposed invasion of Malta. 10 historical battles presented as game battles - from the opening drive into Northern Greece to the air assault on Crete, to the fictional drive across Malta to the capital of...
Road to Tokyo October 1942-July 1945 covers the war in the Pacific Theatre of Operations (PTO) from October 1942 to July 1945; the period when the Allies took the strategic initiative away from the Japanese. Thirteen scenarios are included from the turn of the tide at Guadalcanal through to Okinawa, and not forgetting the battles in Burma and Borneo. Rules...
Commanders at War: Stalingrad - Cauldron of Death is an operational-level wargame in the “Commanders at War” solitaire book wargame series. The player controls the German 6th Army during Case Blue, the 1942 Eastern Front offensive attempting to reach Russia’s coveted oil-rich region. Standing in the way is the industrial city on the Volga River -...
One of the games in Bandai Co., Ltd.'s Party Joy series of lighter boardgames (#64). This one is based off the videogame Commando. It is a simple roll-and-move type game, with symbols on the board indiciating what happens when you land on that spot. There are multiple choices on which direction to go, but not too much in the way of required thinking. There...
Commando Actions is a turn based hex and counter small unit level simulation of commando actions or raids during WWII. Hexes are 25 meters, elevation levels 150 feet, turns are 10 minutes and counter are 3-10 men teams or single tanks, guns, ships, buildings, etc. The game rules are divided into the basic game (book 1 of the rules) and optional/advanced...