Covers the D-Day landings at Omaha Beach on June 6th, 1944. Game consists of a Two color map, 72 counters and rules folder. From the Rules Folder: "The battlefield is divided into equal sized military sectors by the time/space grid. Along the boundaries of each sector are printed Time Factor Numbers. These numbers indicate the movement cost to a military...
Omaha Beachhead: Battle for the Bocage is a grand tactical simulation of the American amphibious assault against the German-occupied coast of Normandy on June 6, 1944 and the subsequent ten-day battle for the beachhead. In turns representing one day, each player controls a force of infantry, artillery, tank, anti-tank, flak, and ranger units. The map...
Omaha: The Battle for the Beach is a free-for-downloading game available from the Armchair General website. A Download Key is required; this is available to purchasers of the July 2004 issue of the magazine. The download itself consists of a zipped Adobe Acrobat file, from which the downloader will need to print 10 pages of rules, tables, counters, and the...
From skies above, paratroopers descend, Americans, Brits and Poles unite as one, Their mission: Bridgeheads to transcend, A path to victory till the war is won. A daring leap, a gamble bold and fleet, Crossing a river in boats task begun, To seize the span a victory complete, For Nijmegen's bridge, the prize that was won. A bridge too far, a dream of a...
On Hell's Highway is a 2-map simulation of the massive Allied airborne assault and ground offensive into Nazi held Netherlands in September, 1944. Taking advantage of a disorganized and retreating German Army, more than three British and American airborne divisions were dropped along a 60 mile corridor in an attempt to capture key bridges across multiple...
On to Berlin! Is an area impulse games that uses cards for activations and covers the entire European and North African theaters from 1939 to 1945. The redeveloped game, based on Rise and Fall of the Third Reich from Game Journal #70, is a fast playing game that allows players to control their faction’s forces and decide on their strategy to achieve...
The Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 had the goal of ending the war in one massive quick campaign. They believed Leningrad, Moscow and southern Russia could be occupied within four to six months, bringing the war to a close, thus altering the course of World War II. In December 1941, the harsh Russian winter ended the campaign with the Axis...
On November 19, 1942, while the main force of the German Army Group B was concentrated in Stalingrad, three Soviet armies launched an offensive against the Romanian units that were defending both flanks. This was the launch of Operation Uranus, aimed at encircling and destroying the German 6th Army. In response, the next day Hitler sent Erich von Manstein...
This is a rule set of aerial combat set in WW2, Dynamic cartoon style aircraft capture the prominent features of the real planes. Though the aircraft are comic book drawn the maneuvers and abilities are based on reported aircraft performance both anecdotal and charted. During a game players control from 2 to 12 aircraft by selecting an maneuver on their...
Translates roughly to "hiding game" or "off the grid game": during WW-2 in the Netherlands, people who ran the risk of being deported to Germany regularly went in hiding. Anne Frank obviously being the most well known example. Not just Jews, also men in the prime of their age, eligible for draft to work basically as slaves in the German factories. For...
One Bullet, One German covers the Polish uprising in Warsaw and the military operations in the immediately envi-rons east of the city in August, 1944. It was critical time for the German: not only was there the Warsaw Uprising to con-tend with, but a few miles east of the city, the German panzers were reeling back from a massive Red onslaught. The only...