Teploie, "Las colinas de hierro" ("The iron heights") is a wargame included in Alea Magazine number 7 (March-April 1990). The game portrays the battle for the Teploie village and heights during the July 1943 Kursk offensive. The German units are part of Army Group Center. One hex represents 1 km. Game includes a small map (42x29 cm), one countersheet with...
1938 went from bad to worse for the Republican cause in Spain. Successes the previous year at Guadalajara, Teruel and Belchite were undone by Nationalist victories that overran Vizcaya as well as continued and massive military support from Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. Madrid was finally cut off and fell in the early summer and many outside of Spain felt...
“The Japanese hoped that World War II would make them the masters of the Pacific. They recognized the industrial might of the United States. Their strategy was therefore to destroy the American Navy with a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. The plan almost worked. The Japanese ran wild in the Pacific and seemed invincible. The most devastating weapons in...
An LPS bonus mini-game, Terrible Swift Swordfish is a solitaire simulation of the Royal Navy's bold and devastating attack on the ships of the Regia Marina in the port of Taranto during the night of November 11-12, 1940. In two waves, the player send his Swordfish carrier-based biplanes laden with either torpedos or bombs to attack Italian ships or bomb...
A Test of Mettle is three games in one package, one of two Professional Series Games published by High Flying Dice Games. Components include three 11 by 17 inch full-bleed maps, one sheet of 280 die cut counters, one full color Players' Aide Chart, and three 8 page rule books. The game is available in either boxed (plastic counter tray with clear lid and a...
Teutons!: Assaults on the West, 1870-1940, is a 'Three-in-One' invasion of France game. France and Germany have been rivals for centuries, dating back to the splintering of the Frankish Kingdom in the ninth century. In 1870, Otto von Bismarck expertly played on a millennia of tension to orchestrate the Franco-Prussian War that led to a unified German...
TACTICAL GAME The "TG" is a complete system of rules for tactical naval combat using miniatures of any scale. It covers the period 1890 to 1945 and contains data for 563 classes of ships from 19 countries. This system is an improved version of our highly acclaimed TG-2. It uses new randomization and torpedo methods which will make it a classic in tactical...
The Battle of Britain and Operation Sea Lion After the defeat of France in the spring of 1940, Britain alone remained in the war against German aggression. Follow-ing their triumph on the continent, the Germans organized and trained their forces for the campaign they hoped would win the war: the invasion and conquest of Britain. With the British army only...
Description from the rulebook: This is a two-player scenario for the Europa system of conflict simulation [...]. It requires the use of maps/counters in the Europa game Their Finest Hour and the air rules and OB/OAs (Order of Battle/Order of Appearance) which are part of this package. It also requires that a number of air counters be made/modified to show...
“As I was crossing the compass platform the captain hailed me, not with the usual rigmarole of 'Enemy in sight, bearing, etc', but with 'There's the fucking Scheer! Open fire at her!'… But the name of the enemy ship was of course the Graf Spee.” – Lieutenant-Commander Richard Jennings, HMS Exeter's gunnery officer during the Battle of the River Plate...
“As a consequence, carrier battles were risky, unstable affairs that hinged on striking effectively first. To do so, a carrier force had to locate its adversary before it was detected itself, or not long after.” – Robert C. Rubel, Deconstructing Nimitz’s Principle of Calculated Risk This is an expansion to my ruleset There's The Effing Scheer, which allows...