Campaigns in Europe (CIE) is a two-player series of games focused on campaign scenarios at the division/corps level. The system uses the same maps as War in Europe (WIE), with updated graphics and a more detailed terrain analysis. The counters have been upgraded and are presented with historical identifications. The game system utilizes a Move/Fight...
The D-Day folio series consists of four separate games, each portraying a portion of the Normandy campaign area. Turns represent two to three days each; the games cover the campaign from the initial landing to the breakout. Each game comes with one map covering a portion of the battlefield at 2.5 miles per hex. The playing pieces represent the regiments...
The Allied invasion of Normandy was a watershed moment in the war. Months of careful planning proceeded while the entire uncommitted strength of the American, British, Canadians, and other Allied armies massed in England. Across the Channel the Germans strove mightily to create hardened defenses on the beach and back them with a slew of new and veteran...
The date: June 6th 1944. World War II is in its’ fifth year. The Axis Powers of Germany, Italy and Japan tried to rule the world and nearly succeed. Many countries fell. In response the USA, England, Russia and others Allied. Struggling, the Allies fought on until a decision to was made to risk an amphibious invasion on the fortified French cost of...
Spin-off of the popular 1970s British sitcom. Get the members of your platoon to certain places on the board. The board itself shows Walmington-on-Sea, which has been occupied by Nazi troops. Players roll a die to collect bombs and landmines before swiping swastika markers off the board and replacing them with British flags to reclaim territory. The aim is...
This is low-to intermediate-complexity, two-player, examination of the historic alternative to Montgomery's ill-fated Operation Market Garden. Instead of his left-jab through lowland Holland to the Rhine, we have Patton's proposed right-hook, starting at Metz and swinging north and east toward the Ruhr for a war-winning knockout blow. Or, as an alternative...
Japanese children's 'wargame'. 1-4 players move from their starting spaces (2 as submarines, 2 as bombers) by die rolls, directed through a network of spaces by the number they roll, scoring points for the enemy ships they land on and 'sink'. With luck, one player can reach the victory space in the minimum of 5 moves. The spaces in descending order are:...
The 5th entry in The Gamer's popular Operational Combat System, and the grandest in scope, DAK covers the entire North African campaign at the regimental level, from Compass to El Alemain and beyond. This is the most specialized of the OCS titles, with rules for the Commonwealth brigades & unusual organizations, minefields, the Greek campaign, and a...
DAK Attack represents incidents the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) face on return journeys from Road Watch or Raid missions in North Africa during the Second World War. As a player in this primary solo game you are in command of one of the LRDG elite patrols, making tactical decisions to try and destroy as many enemy assets as possible on your return to...
DAK the Desert is campaign level wargame for North Africa in World War 2. This game published in the self-published edition (old) Game Journal volume 51. Players control either Axis or Allied army in North Africa. Players manage unit organize, supply, movement and combat. Each combat unit represent battalion, regiment or brigade and they can operate...
A long-awaited reissue of the revised second edition of "DAK the Desert" (originally included in GJ Issue 51). "DAK the Desert" is an operational-level wargame themed around the North African campaign of World War II. It depicts the fierce battles between General Rommel's Deutsches Afrikakorps (German Africa Corps) and the British Eighth Army. Highly...