Vital Ground 1944 covers the 12SS Panzer divisions counterattack on June 7th against the strung out Canadian forces west of Caen. The 12thSS struck with 45 tanks and quickly advanced causing a panic to the allies. The Canadians had little armor and were out of artillery and shore support range. The battle lasted 6 hours and the SS advanced only a few miles...
"Operation Walküre" is a mini solitaire game about the 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. The goal of the conspirators was to kill Hitler in his East Prussian headquarters, the 'Die Wolfsschanze' (the Wolf’s Lair) and then seize power in Germany. The game recreates the difficulties in getting close to Hitler while avoiding Hitler’s suspicions and being...
Operation Walküre is a single-player-only game that recreates the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany during his dictatorial rule. Players negotiate with the Allied Forces while gaining generals and civilians as allies, with the aim of establishing a new government after Hitler's assassination. The game covers the period from the summer of...
An entry level tabletop wargame, that in fact has a greater level of detail than most "beginner" rule sets. Taking the approach of low cost gaming, the pictures and diagrams all depict ways to cut costs and begin gaming, and as such tends to relegate this rule set to a "beginner" level. Set as a platoon or company level engagement, the rules have a unique...
Operation Weserübung: The Invasion of Norway covers the German invasion of Norway in 1940 during World War II. The game covers all aspects of the invasion, including land, naval, and air operations as well as the British and French involvement. Operation Weserübung is a two-player or three-player game, with one player taking the Germans and the other...
Operation Westindien simulates the devastating effects of the German U-boats in the Caribbean from Feb. 16 to March 16. While Operation Paukenschlag (an upcoming ATO game) began along the US East Coast at the same time (equally devastating), a handful of U-boats, Group Neuland, were ordered to deploy in the Caribbean. Unknown to most today, in 1942, the...
SGB-20 Op. Winter Storm (1986) (JPY 5,800) One mapsheet, 504 counters, two identical PACs, one 24-pg rule/scenario booklet (3 scenarios), and one Historical Softbound book entitled “Photographic Series of the East Front-Operation Winter Storm” (72-pg) (JPY 1,800). The historical softbound appears to have been available separately, but I have three copies...
Inside this book you’ll find all the rules you need to simulate a battle set in the Second World War at a scale of single man and single vehicle. The book also contains specific tables for the weapons used by each army but, thanks to the Summary Tables that are also included, they are easy and fast to use. The game also uses a unique and innovative system...
Operations Olympic & Coronet is an update of the Olympic solitaire game first published in S&T along with a second complete game covering the planned follow-up invasion: Operation Coronet. The Olympic map has been updated to reflect better understanding of the tough and, in places, impassable terrain as well as the potential landing sites. The Coronet map...
A very easy game about the Battle of Britain, included in the central pages of "The Battle of Britain Project Book" printed for the Royal Air Force Museum in the 50th anniversary of the event. On a squared map representing Northern France, the Channel and Southern England, the German player moves 10 bombers and 15 fighters against the 25 fighters of the...
Operazione C3 is a simulation game that aims to reconstruct the planned, but never realized, invasion of the island of Malta by the Axis forces in the summer of 1942. The game is played in turns, each representing one day of real time. The map scale is 1.5 km per hex, and the units represent represent battalions and companies that would have taken part in...
Operation “Case Blue” was intended to lead Axis troops to conquer the oil fields of the Caucasus, but it ended in the Stalingrad Pocket. Considered the decisive battle of World War II, Stalingrad was the culmination of the German operation to complete the invasion of Ukraine. —description from the publisher (translated) L’Operazione “Blu” doveva condurre...