This game covers the Crusader battles. On December 9, 1940, British forces launched Operation Compass, forcing the withdrawal of Italian forces from North Africa. In February 1941, Hitler decided to dispatch the German Afrika Korps to North Africa. Rommel's Afrika Korps immediately launched a counterattack, encircling Tobruk in Libya. On the other hand...
Desert Fox is a brigade level simulation of the war in North Africa from the arrival of Erwin Rommel in March of 1941 until the end of 1942 when the Allies, landing amphibious forces in Western Africa, blockaded any chances for future Axis offensives in North Africa. The Axis player attempts to secure Libya and Egypt by seizing Alexandria, while the...
Fox Killed is an expansion of The Desert Fox wargame appearing in Strategy & Tactics magazine nr 87. Fox Killed simulates war between Britain and Italy in North Africa from the start of Graziani’s offensive into Egypt in September of 1940 up to February 1941, when the arrival of German forces in Tripolitania and the transfer of British forces to Greece...
Desert Fox Deluxe is a combination of two previously published games covering parts of the North African campaign–Desert Fox and Trail of the Fox–expanded with additional rules, units, and maps to cover the entire war in the North African desert from the Italian invasion of Egypt in 1940 to the final Allied clearance of Africa in 1943. The map scale is 10...
Return to Europe: Sicily & Italy July–Nov 1943 is a Strategic level board-wargame of the Allied invasion of Sicily and Southern Italy. The operation was viewed as only a limited offensive to secure the Mediterranean and force Italy out of the war. The Germans also intended only a limited effort to delay the Allies while a strong defense was established at...
Desert Generals is a medium-complexity operational level game of the Desert Campaign, from 1940 to 1942.The game captures the ebb and flow of the North African Campaign from late 1940 to November 1942 with a unique emphasis on leadership and command. The game also recreates critical supply constraints. A player refighting the Desert Campaign, like his...
Desert Rats: Sand & Steel in the Western Desert 1941/42. A tactical scale World War II miniatures wargame designed for double-blind umpired play. "These rules are intended to provide a framework for tank battle games set in the Deserts of north Africa in World War 2. The basic groups of forces are tanks and similar mechanised forces, and the intention is...
The 7th Armored Division was an armored division of the British Army that saw distinguished active service during World War II, where its exploits in the Western Desert Campaign gained it the Desert Rats nickname. This exciting new wargame centers on the battles of this distinguished division. The Italian attack on Egypt in 1940 opened the new front of...
From the website: Desert Spitfires is part of the Wings at War series of wargames rules from Tumbling Dice. Desert Spitfires is designed for recreating Arab-Isreali Independence War 1948-49 air combat using Tumbling Dice's 1/600th scale aircraft models. The games are designed to last around one or two hours. As the sky tends to be a lot less cluttered than...
Desert Steel is the third game in West End Game's Tank Leader series. A tactical (platoon/company level) game where formations are activated by playing command cards. Winner of the 1990 Charles Roberts Award for Best WWII Board Game. The emphasis is on command, control and communications with the use of Command cards that represent formations which are...
Description from the publisher: Desert Struggle (DS) is a stand-alone game in the War Storm series. Recreates the events of those days and allows the players to reproduce the most famous battles on the Africa Front at a tactical level. Players take command of either the Allied or Axis forces (or can play solitaire) in the tactical battles of each scenario....