On December 1941 soviet forces landed on Kertch and performed offenivse on Teodosia, in hope to break the siege of Sevastopol. Badly commanded, soviets were defeated by Germans on May 1942 and had to evacuate from Kertch. Kertch landing was one of the worst planned soviet military opertaions ever. Soviets lost 150 000 soldiers, 4500 cannons and 10 000...
(from the publisher' website:) Keren simulates the Battle of Keren, one of the pivotal engagements in East Africa during the Second World War. The Italian units, particularly the Savoia Grenadiers, fought so well the Commonwealth forces had to conduct three assaults to break their position. Indeed, the Savoia Grenadiers were never dislodged from their...
Included in Competitive Edge (Formerly 'Gamefix') Magazine #12 Solitaire game of the battle for Stalingrad, 1942/43. Innovative system plots the player as the surrounded Germans trying to break out from the Soviet encirclement. Components: (8) pages of rules, incl. (4) pages of scenario, charts & historical background. (1) 11x17" Map (1) sheet of counters...
From the introduction: "Kesselring is a simulation for 2 players of the Allied invasion of Southern Italy in late 1943. One player controls the Axis forces led by Field Marshal Albert Kesselring and the other assumes the role of his historical opponent Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery". This wargame was first presented in The Wargamer Magazine issue 5...
Kesselring’s War: Decision in Italy 1943-44 is an operational level two player wargame covering the campaign in Sicily and southern Italy, July 1943 to February 1944. The game covers the months from Operation Husky through the initial landings in the southern peninsula up to the Anzio invasion and first battle of Monte Cassino. This was the time when the...
(from ATO web site:) Kesselschlacht: Ukraine Spring 1944, (literally, "cauldron battle") is a simulation depicting the encirclement and escape of the German First Panzer Army from the Ukraine in the Spring of 1944. The German forces were very low on fuel and ammunition and had been caught flat-footed by yet another overwhelming Soviet offensive. First...
Kestenga: Another Fight to the Finnish is a Brigade level game depicting the fight for the Murmansk railroad in July 1941. In July, 1941, Finnish troops began a thrust through the wilderness just south of the Arctic Circle, hoping to reach the important rail junction of Louhki, a vital link on the Soviet Union's lifeline, the Murmansk Railway. Despite the...
"Pouch" Series Game #5 (also published in Conflict Magazine #5). "A border dispute between Mongolia and the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (Manchuria) drew Imperial Japan and Soviet Russia into a short, sharp, and obscure war in the spring of 1939 known as the Khalkhin-Gol affair." A battalion-level tactical game. One 17" x 36" brown and blue (rivers &...
A hex and block style wargame, Khalkin Gol is a little known border incident that escalated to a major battle in Manchuria. Soviet and Japanese tactical doctrine comes to a head at Khalkin Gol in the summer of 1939. This pivotal battle was the earliest example of the blitzkrieg tactics so popularized by the Germans in WW2. Since the Japanese had decisively...
Khalkin-Gol War: Struggle for Mongolia, 1939 is an operational-level, two-player wargame covering a “what if” Japanese-Soviet war in Mongolia in 1939. The historical campaign saw a series of limited actions in the late spring and early summer of 1939 along the Khalka River (Khalkin Gol) on the Manchukuoan/Outer Mongolian border. The campaign ended in a...
"Kharkov: The Soviet Spring Offensive 12 May to 21 May 1942", is a brigade/Division level simulation of the Spring 1942 Soviet strategic offensive. The Second Battle of Kharkov or Operation Fredericus was an Axis counter-offensive in the region around Kharkov against the Red Army Izium bridgehead offensive conducted 12–28 May 1942, on the Eastern Front...