In mid-1944, despite their rapidly deteriorating position, the Japanese launched a massive offensive in China. They had three objectives: Open a land and rail route across China to their southern conquests in Indochina and the Dutch East Indies (and bypass the US submarine blockade along the Chinese seacoast), and; Eliminate all the US bomber bases in...
Operation Ironclad is a wargame covering the British invasion of the island of Madagascar in 1942. At this time, Vichy French forces controlled Madagascar with the potential of turning the island into a base for Axis attacks against Allied sea lanes in the western Indian Ocean. Ironclad was the first phase of the invasion which began in May and concluded...
Operation Isabella (OI) is an intermediate-complexity two player wargame simulating the possible events that could have unfolded across Iberia during the late summer of 1942 if either side’s planned but never run campaigns had been set in motion. A complete game generally takes from two to three hours to complete, and it is suitable for solitaire play....
Portrays the disastrous Commonwealth raid against the German-held French port city of Dieppe in 1942. The game uses a simplified version of the D-Day at Omaha Beach system. (from Publisher website :)Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, August 1942 (OJ) is a purpose-designed solitaire game, by John Butterfield, simulating the disastrous Commonwealth raid against the...
By 1942 the British Admiralty was increasingly fearful of losing control in the skies over the English Channel. Earlier in February the German’s Operation Cerberus saw the battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gniesenau, as well as the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen sail up the channel to ports in Germany, beneath the very noses of the RAF and Royal Navy. New German...
"Operation Jupiter: Churchill’s Plan to Invade Norway, 1942" (OJ) is an intermediate complexity, two-player wargame simulating the possible events that could have unfolded during the first 30 days of this planned but never run World War II campaign. The British prime minister had intended it as a strategic alternative for Operation Torch. A complete game...
In February 1945, the Japanese executed Operation Kita ("North"). Two hybrid battleship-aircraft carriers and four escort ships dashed home to Japan from Singapore. The Allies detected the Japanese task force, but all their tries to attack it with submarines and aircraft were ineffectual and failed. These were among the last IJN warships to safely reach...
Budapest 1945: The Bitter End This is a solitaire wargame that recreates the German Operation Konrad, which began on January 1, 1945. The player controls the German army and aims to rescue Budapest, which is besieged by the Soviet army. Soviet infantry units are printed directly onto the map while their armored elements can move and counterattack if...
On August 23rd, 1942, the German 14th Pz Corps broke through with amazing speed to the Volga, north of Stalingrad. The stunning euphoric victory quickly turned into a desperate battle of survival for the Germans as they try to hold their positions that cut-off the Russian 62nd Army. Within days, the Germans were in dire situations by Aug.28th. The Russians...
What if Hitler decided to try again for Moscow during the summer of 1942 rather than plunging the Wehrmacht deep into the Caucasus and Stalingrad as he did historically? "Operation Kremlin" uses the corps-army level units that were historically available for this campaign. The German player is on the offensive, seeking to win by controlling Moscow and...
Operation Leopard depicts the amphibious and air assault on the island of Leros which occurred November 12-16, 1943.The Germans airdropped a battalion of paratroops while conducting an amphibious assault against the island held by the British 234th brigade. The game is tactical in nature with operational elements in the planning and conducting amphibious...