Soldiers of the Sun is a solo, tactical treatment of infantry conflict in the Pacific theater during WWII. The innovative system functions without a map and incorporates a unique activation system that pits units of the team/squad scale against each other. Initiative can change rapidly throughout game turns via chit draw and each turn has the potential to...
Solitaire TacOps is a campaign system that simulates the battlefield space where operational decisions meet tactical realities. For Ortona, you start with four infantry battalions, one armored regiment, an artillery battery, and an engineer company. These are represented on counters ranging from platoons to squads, with tank groups and artillery guns....
During the summer of 1943, across the vast steppes of the Soviet Union, one of the largest and most decisive tank battles in the history took place: the Battle of Kursk. Pitting the armored might of the Third Reich against the mechanized forces of the Red Army, their campaign marked a turning point in World War II. The Eastern Front became a massive...
In the Pacific War that began in 1941, aircraft carriers and their aircraft became the main players in naval battles. However, during the night when aircraft could not fly and in bad weather, cruisers ans destroyers fought fiercely with their guns and torpedoes. The Solomon Naval Night Battle game recreates the surface battles between the Japanese and...
(From the Simulation Workshop site) Designed by Markus Stumptner, Solomon Sea simulates the World War II carrier battles for control of the sea lanes around the Solomon Islands, from May to November 1942. One player commands the Allied (US and Australian) forces and the other the Japanese. Victory is obtained by destroying the opposing fleets, landing...
W101 Solomons Campaign is a solitaire game covering the campaign in the Solomons in 1942-43, during and after Guadalcanal. The player controls US forces, while the game system controls the Japanese via random actions. Ground units on both sides are regiments and battalions, air units are wings or squadrons, and naval units are individual ships in the case...
Historical simulation of the Air-Sea-Land campaign waged on and around Guadalcanal in 1942. Game begins with US invasion and portrays the subsequent Japanese attempts to retake this strategic area and the American efforts to hold it. Each Turn simulates a week of real time, during which players deploy, have combat and attempt to achieve objectives. Has a...
Game description from the publisher: The Solomons Campaign is an extensive redesign of the old-SPI game of the same name originally designed and published by James F. Dunnigan in 1973. It presents a two-player, complex historical simulation of the air, sea and land campaigns waged on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the summer and fall of 1942. The...
Italy conquers British Somaliland Somaliland ’40 simulates the Italian conquest of British Somaliland in August 1940. In this two player game, one player ontrols the Italian forces and the other the British forces.[...] The map depicts the part of British Somaliland where the harshest combats took place. Each hex is about 10 km across (6.2 miles). Each...
Some Poles Apart is the second game in the Pocket Battle Games series from LPS, Inc., released to promote Against the Odds. Some Poles Apart takes a close look at a fascinating and almost unknown action from the opening days of WWII, when a small group of Polish troops earned full "Honors of War" from the Nazis for an amazing defensive stand they made in a...
Covers the unique situation in Iraq during WW2. The recent coup could provide the Germans with a ripe opportunity to step into the Middle East. The Iraqis requested German support when the British violated an agreement made in 1931 restricting British troops on Iraqi soil. Instead, the British created a major airbase at Habbinaya, east of Baghdad. In late...
November…1942. World War 2 ravages the globe in a bloody conflict for the very soul of humankind. Across the war-torn regions of the Mediterranean, the Axis powers of Germany and Italy control much of the theater. But the mighty nations of the United States and Great Britain are on the move, launching a massive offensive — code-named Operation Torch. But...