"Kharkov 1943", published in 1999 in "Vae Victis" issue 25, is a wargame which covers the operations "Star" and "Gallop" around Kharkov in February-March 1943. This wargame uses a variation of the system used in Vae Victis issue 13 for "Arnhem". The focus of the game system is on initiative and command, with alternating formation activations (i.e., the...
Kharkov 1943: Le Coup de Maître de Von Manstein is an Operational level board-wargame - a two in one as it contains all the material for TWO battles of World War 2: Kharkov (1943) and Rostov (1941) both happening in the same corner of USSR. A fourth game of a planned series of six which all use the same rules, on 6 page leaflets. Published in a issue of...
At 1020 hours on June 4, 1942, Japanese naval aircraft still ruled the skies over the Pacific. All that changed within ten minutes, when U. S. dive bombers sunk three out of four carriers constituting Kido Butai, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s main strike force which had devastated Pearl Harbor only six months before. The solitaire game Kido Butai simulates...
"Kiev: The Battle of Encirclement, 1941" is a simulation wargame of the German Blitzkrieg campaign from 29 August to 26 September 1941. It ended with the largest encirclement in history: 665,000 Soviets were destroyed; 3718 guns and 884 armored fighting vehicles captured; and the remains of the great Soviet prewar army of April 1941 was finished as a...
KIEV 1941 - Biggest Battle of Encirclement is the first battle of KIEV theme wargame. In this game, One player takes the role of the Axis army while another player commands the Russia army. Players attempt to achieve victory by moving their combat units across the game map to attack their opponent’s combat units and occupy as many objectives as possible....
—description from the publisher "Kiev 1943" is a wargame by Nicolas Stratigos, the third game of the "Storms in the East" VaeVictis jeux d'histoire series. After the failure of Zitadelle in mid-July 1943, then the loss of Kharkov on 23 August, the German armies surged back on the Dnieper with the Soviet forces at their heels. The Voronezh Front of Vatutin...
With Moscow '41 and Leningrad '41, VentoNuovo established their successful foray into Operation Barbarossa, covering the Central and Northern fronts of this immense invasion. Following on from their success, VentoNuovo now present Kiev '41, which will cover the Southern front and complete the trilogy. Players take either the German or Soviet Union forces...
Kiev & Rostov: Battles of Army Group South, 1941, is a set division/regiment level simulations of crucial campaigns in the southwestern Soviet Union during World War II. Kiev: The Battle of Encirclement, 1941, depicts the German Blitzkrieg campaign that lasted from 29 August to 26 September 1941. It ended with one of the largest encirclements in history...
A card game for 2-4+ players set in the period 1940-45. Players represent various elements of the German Resistance trying to assassinate Hitler. Through card play players strive to be the first player to assassinate Hitler. Players share a common deck comprising 6 card types: Method (Plot Card. Weapons used in an attempt) Conspirator (Plot Card. Key...
New England Simulations revisits a familiar World War II venue -- the hedgerows of Normandy -- with some refreshing twists in The Killing Ground: Campaign for Normandy, July-August 1944". The game combines a mechanic usually reserved for smaller games -- a chit pull combat system -- with two gorgeous maps, 900 counters, and a 36-page rulebook that should...
OVERLORD: D-Day and the Beachhead Battles is an expansion module for The Killing Ground: Campaign for Normandy, July-August 1944 that covers the period from June 6, to July 5, 1944. This 30 game-turn module links directly to The Killing Ground with an additional map, playing pieces and rules. It may also be played as a single map, stand alone game. In...
"Kirovograd" is a World War 2 wargame that recreates the epic armor battle which took place in the Ukraine from January 5-16, 1944 between the forces of General Ivan Konev's Second Ukrainian Front and General Otto Wohler's Eighth Army. After ten days of desperate fighting in conditions of frost and light snow, Konev's troops were unable either to make a...