From the publisher: This once, a lack of military intelligence was a good thing The game takes place on the 19th and 20th of September 1943, during the Markham valley campaign aimed at seizing the important northern coastal town of Lae in Papua New Guinea. The commando company was despatched to seize the villages of Kaiapit and renovate the airstrip while...
When I wrote Kalashnikov Tribal Multi-Battalion rules, I integrated logistics, but hopefully in a ‘simple’ manner so they don’t get in the way but are a necessary part of your planning. The obvious next step was bringing things together to try and show the entire logistic tail. Now I don’t want to get into the whole economic side of it. There are board...
My aim with these rules was to create something which allowed you to fight larger battles, where each base is a battalion. The rules cover the period pretty much from the development of the magazine rifle onwards, but you can doubtless fudge that. The aim is to allow you to fight several different sorts of game. Yes you can have the clash of regular...
The kamikaze attacks -- deliberate mass suicides that turned aircraft into devastatingly effective guided missiles -- were a unique phenomenon of World War II. In the closing months of the Pacific conflict, the desperate but indomitable Japanese command formulated a last-ditch equation: one plane could equal one ship. "Kamikaze" is a two-player wargame...
What if Word War II hadn’t ended in 1945…? What if the Manhattan Project had been delayed…? The historical end of the Japanese Empire occurred in August 1945, before the invasion of Japan. For over 60 years, historians have debated what could have happened if a number of events had ended differently. Kamikaze 1946 proceeds from a historical base to...
Kampen om Norge ("The Battle of Norway") is a strategy board game about the German invasion of Norway in 1940. Each player takes control of the armed forces of either Norway, The Allies, or Germany. Using plastic soldier playing pieces that represent armies, and cards that represent war ships, bombers, fighters and special actions, the players battle for...
Objective: Eliminate your opponent/ - moving/acting by turns - Gameboard is your battlefield. You have several different military units with different qualities (range, power,...) at your disposal. 1. Place your 25 units into the red/blue marked areal. 2. Advance your units 3. Attack if enemy is within allowed range & vulnerable by your unit 4. Remove...
Command Quality Triumphs Over Superior Numbers! Most WWII rules leave you wondering how the Germans ever won a battle. Usually they fought out-numbered and against opponents with equal or superior equipment. So how did they ever win? The answer lays in their outstanding unit-level leadership. Kampfgruppe Commander places leadership quality at the...
Kampfgruppe Commander is the winner of the prestigious Origins Award. This updates third edition adds two scenarios, a template for vehicle cards, and makes many small tweaks to the system --incorporating ten years of player feedback. A poorly led Soviet tank brigade uses its entire turn simply to move and fire at an enemy held town. The German commander...