West Front: The Campaign in Europe 1943 - 1945. West Front is our grand strategic game of the European campaign. It can be played in historical scenarios starting at either the Italian or Normandy landings or in an open landing zone campaign. The game focuses on the Army Group level, with players controlling subordinate armies as the main combat...
West Front '44 is a two-player wargame of the campaigns along the Rhine in the winter of 1944-45 (December to March). The Allies are attempting to establish bridgeheads across the Rhine River while the Germans are planning for their Ardennes counteroffensive. The game uses a variant of the Boots/Manstein's War system to model command, control, and...
A double-blind wargame published in The Wargamer Magazine #35. This Corps/Divisional/Brigade scale game covers the advance into Germany following the Normandy invasion. The double-blind system uses two maps so neither player can see the units of his opponent. Movement is handled by calling out hex numbers when a unit enters into "enemy territory". Players...
The campaign in Egypt and Libya 1940-43 In September 1940, Marshal Graziani's Italian 10th Army crossed the frontier from Libya into Egypt with the strategic Nile Delta and the Suez Canal as its objective. The offensive soon faltered. In December, General O'Connor led the outnumbered Allies in a counter-attack that crushed the 10th Army and threw the...
The Near East, Europa IX, is a module of maps and counters covering the countries of the Near East. Three maps cover Asiatic Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Western Iran, at the standard Europa scale of 16 miles per hex. They display the diversity of terrain in the region, from sandy desert to high mountain peaks, from the marshy lowlands of the Persian Gulf to...
Appearing in Europa Magazine #15, Enter Rommel (Europa Battle Scenario #2) is a specially numbered 4 page pullout in the center of the magazine. Awards: 1990 Charles S. Roberts Award: Best Historical or Scenario Magazine Article, By Mr. Frank Watson (from the introduction:)Enter Rommel is a scenario suitable for use with Western Desert of "War in the...
Appearing in Europa Magazine #28, El Alamein (Europa Demonstration Battle #1) is a specially numbered 4 page pullout in the center of the magazine. The scenario requires the counters, and map 19, from Western Desert, and except for a few variants, relies on the rule sets from Western Desert or Balkan Front. El Alamein was created to illustrate Europa's...
In September 1940, Italian divisions rolled over the border between their colony of Libya and British-dominated Egypt. After advancing several dozen miles they stopped to secure their supply lines, only to meet a devastating British counter-attack that soon had them reeling back halfway across Libya. For the next two and a half years, Axis and Allied...
Western Front Tank Leader is the second game in West End Game's Tank Leader series. A tactical (platoon/company level) game where formations are activated by playing command cards. The emphasis is on command, control and communications with the use of Command cards that represent formations which are used to determine order of movement/combat, rallying and...
The defense of Westerplatte went down in history thanks to the heroism of 216 Polish soldiers attacked by over 2,500 Germans. Attacked from the air by Stukas, shelled from the sea by the battleship Schleswig-Holstein, as well as by artillery and heavy machine guns, they lasted seven long days, inflicting heavy losses on the attackers. —description from the...
Westfront was a PanzerBlitz variant published in The Spartan magazine number 1. The variant expanded the PanzerBlitz system to the Western Front, prior to the release of Panzer Leader. The variant added new geomorphic maps, unmounted unit counters, and rules. A reprint of the variant was released in 1973. The reprint included four pages of rules additions...
WestFront details the conflict between the Allies and Germany during WWII between 1943-45. Players have to contend with production, supply, command control and the weather to try and break the other sides lines. Additional rules are included for amphibious invasions. Several scenarios cover every major point of the war. The game comes with a fantastic...