Second Ediiton Notes With the end of the 2nd. world war, the world enters a new political configuration headed by two great blocs: the United States and the Soviet Union. Despite the climate of hope in the division of defeated Germany, a series of suspicions begin to emerge among the old allies. The Russians with control of so-called Eastern Europe awoke...
(from the Decision Games web site:) Luftwaffe is an update of the classic Avalon Hill game covering the US strategic bombing campaign over Europe in World War II. As the US commander, your mission is to eliminate key German industrial complexes. You select the targets, direct the bombers, and plan a strategy intended to keep the Luftwaffe off-balance. As...
Objective: be the first reaching target space (150) with a matching die roll - moving by turns - basically a 'snake and ladders' approach with a few specialities: - very large board - war game theme - belittlement of aerial war - according instructions 'suitable for the very young ones' which should give this game a special place.. should had been...
The Luzon Campaign, 1945 is a wargame, purpose-designed for solitaire play, which covers the fighting across the main Philippine island of Luzon early in 1945. You, as the single player, actively commands the invading US forces, while the rules direct you in the deployment of the defending Japanese. You win or lose via the seizure of (or failure to seize)...
2024 Charles Roberts Award Nominee for Best Operational Game. Luzon: Race for Bataan covers the mobile campaign during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, from December 22, 1941, when the main Japanese forces landed in Lingayen Gulf, to January 7, 1942, when the U.S.-Philippine Army completed its retreat to the Bataan Peninsula. New designer Matsuura...
MacArthur's defeat is a simulation of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines from December 1941 to May 1942. Designed for two player but easily played solo, the game covers land and air operations, abstracting naval operations. Units are primarily regiments with some battalions. Artillery battalions are represented in a semi-abstract manner. Air units...
This game simulates the October 20, 1944 to February 3, 1945 U.S. Sixth Army campaign to secure the Philippine Island of Leyte. The game includes 5 scenarios allowing players to simulate all or part of the campaign. Players are placed in the positions of the American and Japanese commanders. (10 pages of rules and a few pages of scenarios.) Contents :...
Macarthur: The Road to Bataan covers the battle of Luzon Island during the winter of 1941-1942. Basically this game deals with a large island that must defend itself without any hope of significant outside help, against an enemy that can strike from virtually any direction. The Japanese can assault the island at many different points, causing the Allies...
Solitaire wargame included in Panzerschreck Anthology. The player controls an invasion force of 7 British units that must control an unknown quantity of Vichy French held positions around the north coast of Madagascar by the end of the 5th turn. Victory conditions are determined by random die roll at the end of the game, but either Diego Suarez and/or...
MAG-23 Guadalcanal is a book-based game that celebrates the story of Marine Air Group 23, known as the "Cactus Air Force", a ragtag group with planes, pilots, and personnel from the Marine Corps, Navy, and Army Air Forces. Their heroism helped deliver America a much-needed early victory in the Pacific during the Second World War. "The book-based solitaire...
From the rules: Magical Strike is a free cooperative miniature figure game inspired by anime series Strike Witches. Defend the Earth! Only the teenage Witches, with the help of 1940’s best flying technology the Striker units, can stop the alien Neuroi invasion. Fly over the massive Neuroi, clearing beam points, while searching for the core. Hurry, to the...
Between September 9th and 10th, a battalion of Carabinieri students, under the command of their officers, played an important role in the defense of Rome. This is a little-known and little-told episode in the history of the force, a kaleidoscope of images where personal value, audacity and stubbornness have written pages of history and sometimes even of...