Welcome to Operation Biting, a solitaire World War II wargame. In this game you are in command of a group of British Airborne on a daring raid in enemy-occupied France to steal some new top secret radar. Also known as the Bruneval Raid the radar is defended by an enemy garrison, set against a snow laden cliff top. You must lead your squads, after their...
"Board & card game for 2 players. World War II theme. Abstract platoon level combat. Each figure represents a company or unit of men. Victory: You rout the enemy if you destroy 9+ of his units." The game is played on a chessboard or any other 8x8 grid. Miniatures or counters are used to represent the combatants. Each player starts with eight Infantry, four...
It’s 1948, and World War II has left Germany divided between Ally and Soviet powers. Because Ally-controlled West Berlin is locked behind Soviet borders and cut off from all land transport, the people of the city must rely entirely on air support for all their supplies. Play as a pilot in Operation Candy Bomber and work cooperatively with the other players...
Operation Cannibal simulates the battle of Arakan in Burma during 1942-43. It uses a multiple impulse system where impulse chits are drawn and the player whose chit is drawn may perform actions which may be limited due to the restrictions of the chit drawn. Operation Cannibal is a fast-paced two player wargame that reproduces the circumstances, the events...
From 1943 to the end of World War Two, both the American Office of Strategic Services and the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) materially assisted the anti-Fascist, anti-Nazi Partisan movement in Italy. Teams of agents were inserted behind the Axis lines by submarine or parachute to make contact with the Partisan groups and brigades. An example...
(from ATO website) Operation Cartwheel was a miniaturized version of Allied Grand Strategy in the Pacific—a multi-pronged advance aimed to make it difficult for the Japanese to focus their responses... a jumping from air base to potential-next-airbase. (MacArthur called it, “Advancing the bomber line.”) And, most of all, the novel concept that not every...
Operation Causeway: Formosa 1944 is an operational-level two player wargame covering the planned but never executed Allied invasion of the Allied island of Formosa in World War II. Had the operation been executed, it would have been the largest amphibious invasion of the Pacific Theater of Operations. The Allied objective is to gain control of Formosa with...
This is the twelfth game in the Pocket Battle Games series from LPS, Inc. From Wikipedia: The Channel Dash, (codenamed Operation Cerberus by the Germans), was a major naval engagement during World War II in which a German Kriegsmarine squadron consisting of both Scharnhorst class battleships, and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen along with escorts, ran a British...
(Version française ci-dessous.) In 1944, during the night of 5th to 6th June, paratroopers of the British 6th Airborne achieved three heroic missions that made possible the D-Day Normandy Landings on the East sector (Gold, Juno and Sword beaches). In Operation Commando - Pegasus Bridge, one player leads the English commandos, while his opponent is in...
After the British Airborne of the first opus, Operation Commando comes back with the 101th and the 82th American Airborne jumping on Sainte-Mère-Eglise and Utah Beach. The game includes three scenarios in the Cotentin. It uses the same mechanisms as the first game "Pegasus Bridge" (with a deck of cards and a choice to play or not a card in order to...
Operation Compass: North Africa, December 1940 is an Operational level Solitaire board-wargame where the player primarily takes on the role of commanding the Allied forces during the first 4 days of the campaign in Egypt that saw the Italian forces forced out of that country in 1940. The Italian forces are managed by the player in accordance with the...