Division Commander is a set of miniatures rules designed for very high-level World War II operations. Each stand is a battalion, the ground scale is 3" = 1 mile, and turns are 90-180 minutes. The rules are designed from the ground up to play multi-day campaigns with multiple divisions per side. Like Bruce's "Great Battles of World War II" rules, one of the...
Description from the publisher: “All the tension on the carrier exploded the moment we heard Comdr. Dixon's voice come in strong and clear: ‘Scratch one flattop! Dixon to carrier: Scratch one flattop.’” -- Stanley Johnston, war correspondent for The Chicago Tribune, on the sinking of the Shōhō The Japanese Empire invincibly thundered across the Pacific...
Dog Boats: Battle of the Narrow Seas is a tactical-level wargame where you (as the Captain) take the command of either a Royal Navy Fairmile D motor gunboat (MGB) squadron or Vosper 72' motor torpedo boat (MTB) squadron in either the English Channel or North Sea from 1943-1944. Your main goal is to survive the war while sinking as many enemy ships as you...
From the rules: "Dog Fight very closely approaches an actual combat between fighting planes, bombers and anti-aircraft guns. The play takes place on a vertical board which allows the important consideration of altitude to become a part of the play. The planes against the sunset sky make a most realistic picture. "By making use of the allowable moves of the...
"Dog Sector" is a beer-and-pretzels level, solitaire wargame that simulates the famous WW II Normandy amphibious landing in 1944. American forces from off-map transports assault the beach. Those units not swamped during the approach attempt to move up the beach toward the German-occupied bluffs, clearing obstacles as they advance. Some units (tanks...
Dogeza in the Pacific is a strategic level wargame of the Pacific War. In a two-player case, the flavor of this game is a compact edition of Avalon Hill's Victory in the Pacific, but in a four-player case, each player (Japanese Army, Japanese Navy, U.S. Army and U.S. Navy) fights each other in order to save face of each organization. Sometimes army player...
Dogface is a solitaire WWII tactical combat RPG in which players take on the role of a single U.S. soldier, known as a "dogface" -- a hard-earned nickname given to the infantrymen who fought "their war" on the ground, on foot, through the mud and snow. Taking inspiration from such great games as Advanced Squad Leader, Combat! and the Combat Commander...
This game appears to be an Air Combat version of Battleship. Each player has two pegboards. One pegboard is hidden behind a screen in which the player secretly places his pieces. The other peg board is played in the open and used to track which points have been identified. Game Pieces differ in sizes from occupying between two to four peg holes. Game lasts...
Eight unique solid metal die-cast Classic WWII airplanes stored inside a solid wood game board. Strategic without being difficult, you can set up and teach the game in only a few minutes. Each airplane is sculpted and hand painted based on the specifications and markings of the classic European theatre airplanes of the Second World War. The skies over...
Dogfight is a board wargame for two players. There are two levels. In the first level there are WWII fighter planes. The second level is more complicated: modern jets use air-to-air missiles beside gun. The main characteristic is that the game board is covered with a net of equilateral triangles. The vertices of these triangles are points towards which...
DOGFIGHT @ ALAM HALFA Rommel's Strike for Cairo, Sept. 1942 Rommel's last offensive in the desert was a compelling one. He knew his past successes were waning for a variety of reasons and that unless something changed, he would be at the end of his logistical tether. By August, 1942, he was fast approaching a turning point and he feared his luck might run...