From the dust jacket: "Fighting battles on table tops, with miniature soldiers and model terrain features, is one of the oldest and most exciting of indoor sports. A good war game combines all the strategy of chess, all the fun of model railroading, and all the excitement and challenge of a game of baseball. Thanks to innovations in the manufacture of...
Hube's Pocket - The Battles for Western Ukraine, January to April 1944, is the fourth game in the Operational Combat Series from The Gamers and depicts the campaign in the Western Ukraine from January to April, 1944. It pits Manstein’s Army Group South against the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts in three encirclement battles—Kirovograd, Korsun, and...
(from the publisher:) Rumble on the Danube! The bitter winter fighting for Budapest was one of the most prolonged, vicious city fights in history. And, until now, no one has ever tried to make a game to capture the struggle. Late December, 1944, while the Allies began to pinch off The Bulge, the Soviets—and their new-found Romanian allies—began the assault...
A Hungarian Rhapsody a magyarországi szovjet bevonulást szimulálja, amelynek következményeképp a Vörös Hadsereg eljutott a bécsi medencébe. Románia 1944. augusztusában történt átállása lehetővé tette a szovjetek számára, hogy a Kárpátok déli részén keresztül jól védjék a pozícióikat. Az ezt követő offenzíva során a német 6. hadsereg szinte megsemmisült...
In 1943, the Italians surrendered and switched to the Allied side. The Eritrea was a small warship that had been operating with the Japanese Navy ever since the fall of Italian East Africa. This is a two player postcard wargame, with the Italian player attempting to evade the Japanese forces, while the Japanese player attempts to out-guess and destroy or...
An LPS bonus mini-game. "World War II has broken out and a single German pocket battleship is supremely poised amid Allied shipping lanes to completely disrupt Allied naval preparations. Can a single ship, at once so powerful it can crush any convoy escort encountered, and so fast it can evade any more powerful force sent to sink it, succeed and vindicate...
Hunters from the Sky - The Airborne Assault on the Maleme Airfield, Crete - May 20-23, 1941, is the 6th game in the Tactical Combat Series (TCS) by The Gamers and covers the assault of the Luftlande-SturmRegiment on the New Zealand 5th Brigade to seize the Maleme Airfield. The German attack on Crete was the first large-scale use of airborne forces in...
Hunters in the Sky is a complete miniatures game of WWII air combat. The basic rules allow for relatively large battles with up to a dozen aircraft per side and minimal record keeping. Optional rules are included which cover; air to ground combat, bombers (dive, level and torpedo), variable pilot quality and experience, and simple campaign system. Advanced...
"Hurtgen Forest is a simulation on the battalion/regiment level, of the combat between U.S. and German forces near the Belgian border in November of 1944." (from the Hurtgen Forest rules folder.) Hurtgen Forest is one of four games included in the West Wall Quadrigame set. The game includes a 17" x 22" three-color map, 100 counters and and Exclusive rules...
(From the rear of the box:) The road to the Rhine, and beyond to Berlin, seemed wide open in the early fall of 1944. The German armies in France had ceased being organized formations and were streaming back to the Reich in willy nilly fashion, hotly pursued by the Western Allied armies as they dashed through Paris and to the borders of Germany. The First...