June 1944, the Allies have finally opened the second front demanded by Stalin. The Red Army then launches the Bagration operation. Bringing considerable resources, over 2 million men and 4,000 tanks, it aims to liberate Belorussia. Taken by surprise, the German Army Group Center collapses quickly. The Soviets then advance 600 km in a month, causing an...
Victory: World War II, originally released as Victory: The Blocks of War, is a Block game published in 1998 by Columbia Games. It is a generic war game played on modular maps with World War II units. The game uses a stripped down Front system, with the whole command control element removed and simplified movement and unit production. Block sets for blue...
Without expansion, Victory is a two-player game. The regular expansion blocksets for Victory each contain 50 wooden block units in any of 6 available colors: the red and blue of the base game, or orange, green, gray or black. Expansion blocksets come with a few simple additional rules for multi-player games. Victory 2nd ed. includes elite units in the...
The "Elite" blocksets for Victory: The Blocks of War add additional unit types, and are available in the same player colors as the base game and expansions. Red and blue are the original colors, but green, orange, gray, and black are also available. Note that each color of elite blockset is sold separately, so you'll need at least two elite sets...
New maps for Victory: World War II which contains maps 1-4 and Victory: World War II – Second Edition which contains maps 1, 2, 6 and 7. Originally available in six mapsets each containing a pair of maps not included in Victory: World War II plus a blank mapset. With the advent of Victory: World War II – Second Edition, the maps not included in the 2nd...
The Logistics set adds factories and other logistical issues to Victory. Land, sea and air units each have their own factories, replacing the generic city production points of the standard game. Airfields can now be built, allowing air units to land even without a city or town. Mulberries are temporary ports that can be built by Marines. A storm affects a...
The classic World War 2 sandbox game updated and with improved mechanics, more unit types, and streamlined gameplay! Victory is a fast-paced strategy game of World War 2 combat using the popular Columbia Block System where each unit is facing the player, but not the opponent! This "fog-of-war" aspect allows for feints, bluffs, and outright surprises not...
The Second World War is raging, and your industrial output is needed for the war effort. In Victory through Industry, you'll build a factory complex capable of manufacturing the products needed by our boys at the front, everything from battleships to canned food. Over the course of the game, players build a network of factories that consume certain...
Panzer Digest #14 (Summer 2019) is a full-color wargames magzine that contains three complete games in addition to gaming articles, variants, and reviews. VIKING FURY is a solitaire, strategic level wargame covering the Viking expansion from the end of the 8th century. BATTLE OVER EUROPE is a two-player tactical, plane vs plane World War II card game...
Vinegar Joe's War: CBI (China-Burma-India Theater of Operations) is a wargame of the World War II campaign in Southeast Asia: Malaya, Burma, Indochina and adjoining areas of India and China. In that campaign the Japanese overran Malaya, captured the strategic British base of Singapore and conquered Burma. Later campaigns saw the Japanese-Allied struggle...
Sat inside the cockpit with the engine rattling through your bones, you turn to engage. Managing your energy and fuel, can you gain position to get a shot off? Or will the bandit get the better of you? Sometimes it is better to disengage than push a losing fight. Violent Skies is a solitaire game of aerial combat in the Second World War. Using a game card...