OPERATION DOWNFALL: the planned but never executed Allied invasion of Japan was abandoned following the US atomic strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Operation Olympic was to launch on November 1, 1945 with the objective to capture the southern third of the Japanese home island of Kyushu. After a rapid establishment of airbases and logistical hubs, this...
From publisher: Whoever said that historical wargames are boring? Are you tired of wasting hours and hours reading an infinity of tables and using mathematical formulae to discover if you have hit the opponent's soldiers or not? OO is easy to learn and has just the right compromise between realism and playability. Based on the principle of action/reaction...
(translation from the text of MoDian's crowdfunding page) This game represents a series of decisive battles between the Allied forces and the German forces in the Normandy area of France from June to August 1944 when the Allied forces landed in Normandy and marched inland. Number of players in the game: 2-4 people 2 players: the German forces player and...
In post-World War II Germany the scramble is on to mete out the fate to the Reich's most brilliant -and infamous- technical minds. Play as the Americans or Soviets racing to assemble the superior scientific team. Or you can play as the Nakam vigilante group hunting down the worst perpetrators of the war. Lastly, you can play as an ODESSA Network operative...
This is a small wargame of Operation Pointblank, included in "This Sim-Game is Awsome! 2017", an annual zine of wargame review. Operation Pointblank is the US 8th Air Force's strategic bombing campaign of Germany between February and December of 1944. One player is cast in the role of the US 8th Air Force planners, allocating bombers and their fighter...
A postcard game distributed in BANZAI Magazine No. 14, first game of the irregular series "World Bad Strategy". The Swedish army, along with the Danish army, planned an operation to retake Denmark on May 18, 1945, but by then the war had ended with Germany's surrender. What if the plan is activated a little earlier than planned? Or what if the end of the...
SGB-22 Operation Rainbow (1986) (JPY 6800) Subtitled both “Pacific War in Another World” and “From Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor by US Navy to Decisive Battle of Marshall”. The box cover has a dramatic picture of the Japanese battleship Nagato slowly turning on its side and billowing smoke while US dive bombers fly overhead ala the USS Arizona. An...