War in the Desert recreates the struggle for North Africa and the Near East. Using standard Europa scales and rules, the game covers the campaigns in the Western Desert, from O'Connor's offensive against the Italians in Dec 40, to the siege of Tobruk and battle of Gazala, through the defeat and pursuit of the Axis forces at El Alamein in Nov. 42; the...
An official Europa scenario published in The Europa Magazine 87 (Vol.XV,No.5). It covers the British campaign to seize Madagascar from the Vichy French, which took up most of 1942. The game uses typical Europa system rules, and includes a map of Madagascar (not on the normal Europa scale, with insert maps of Mauritius and Reunion), but players must supply...
Description from the publisher: War in the Pacific 1941-1945 allows players to replay the conflict between the Empire of Japan and the Allies in the Pacific Theater of World War II. WIP is a campaign game on a grand strategic scale. Random event cards reflect the major political and technological changes and events which occurred during the War; depots are...
The year is 1942. Japan has rapidly expanded across the Pacific, bombing Pearl Harbor, capturing key territories, and threatening to dominate Asia. The United States, determined to halt this advance, begins a daring island-hopping campaign to weaken Japan’s hold and force their surrender. Can you lead the American forces to victory, or will the Japanese...
War in the Pacific – The Campaign Against Imperial Japan, 1941-45 is a multi-level simulation of the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War Two. The game enables players to recreate the entire course of the war, from the opening Japanese attack on December 7, 1941 to the climactic Allied assaults in the closing days of 1945. This Monster sized game...
(BGG description:) Chandler Tedholm's Tactical Surface Combat rules replace the original War in the Pacific Surface-Surface Combat Display with what amounts to a complete tactical naval game system, explained in a mere six small-format pages of rules, and taking not much more time than the original combat system. Instead of the abstract "move by numbers"...
On Sunday, 7 December 1941, the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was attacked by Japanese aircraft. For the next four years, Allied task forces engaged elements of the Imperial Japanese fleet throughout the ocean. Marines and army units began their program of island-hopping, wresting from the Japanese the empire that they had expanded in every...
This extension kit is just that, a kit to extend War in the Pacific (Second Edition) into late 1945 and 1946 making it possible to explore the possibilities of the war continuing without atomic intervention. The kit includes a new counter sheet for planes, ships, and other units scheduled to appear after August 1945. It also includes an additional set of...
In June 1942, forces of the Japanese Northern Army occupied Attu Island as part of its Midway campaign. Attu, at the far western end of the Aleutian Archipelago, was American soil. In May 1943, American forces landed on Attu to liberate it. They were unprepared for the tenacity of the Japanese defenders and the brutality of the environmental conditions....
In 1945 Japan did not surrender. The Allies push hard to bring an end to World War II. What ends is nuclear fallout in Tokyo. With civil unrest across the globe, the Allies send special teams into radiated Tokyo to find the Japanese Army and its government to secure surrender and bring an end to World War II. The story to War in Tokyo uses the reality that...
The year is 1942 and you are charged with mobilizing your nation and battling to victory in the first fully industrialized, mechanized, global total war. For the first time in modern history, development of new weapons, manufacturing capacity and global supply chains turned entire national economies into war factories, and every citizen into a military...
War of Tank: France 1940: The Breakthrough at Dinant, covers the very beginning of the infamous sickle cut, the incredible German blitz that would end two weeks later around Dunkirk. On May 12th, Rommel, Hartlieb and their panzer divisions are on the bank of the Meuse River. And they’re not there for the fishing. In front of them, the French divisions are...