This is a race game from 1 to 60 and was produced during the black-out period of the Blitz in Britain. Special squares on the game board resulted in different things happening during the course of the game (i.e. Dogfight in the sky, stop to watch and lose your turn, Red plane shoots down enemy, receive two tokens, black and red flyers collide, lose two...
Produced in the years immediately following the London Blitz and other German bombing raids on UK cities, this is a 60-space race game depicting a conflict between an unnamed "enemy," in black planes, with the red-planed defense squadron. The immediacy of war reaches into even the daily lives of common citizens, with almost every space bringing some sort...
WARGAMES RULES FOR AIR COMBAT IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR Recommended scales: 1/144 TO 1/300; 1/72 OR 1/600 possible Complexity: 4/10 A SET OF QUICK REFERENCE SHEETS IS AVAILABLE THROUGH THE PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE These rules are intended to allow two or more Players to have a fast and simple game representing tactical air combat during the Second World War....
For its age, some quite clever ideas. Here are the important rules; The game is intended for two players, one taking the 'planes' and the other the 'shells', both represented by discs. The aim of the game is to get as many planes as possible through to the Objective. Each player moves in turn commencing with a Plane. The Moves; The discs move according to...
Aerodrome II is a miniatures game of aerial combat during World War II. Players take roles as pilots in fighters and bombers. Each player controls a 1/100 or 1/144 airplane mounted on antennas allowing planes to be at differing altitudes. The planes move over hexes on a table dueling with other players to shoot each other down. As with Aerodrome, pilots...
Africa Orientale (Italian for East africa), is a simulation of the campaign fought in the horn of Africa in 1940-41. On 10 June 1940, Italy declared war on Britain and France, which made Italian military forces in Libya a threat to Egypt and those in the Italian East Africa a danger to the British and French territories in the Horn of Africa. Italian...
Africa Orientale Italiana is a complete Panzer Grenadier game based on these battles: the Italian conquest of Somaliland and British re-conquest, the campaign in Eritrea including the bloody Battle of Keren, the South Africa invasion of Somaliland and much more. There are 30 scenarios based on these battles, organized into “battle games” that allow you to...
This game was first published by Asahi syuppan as one of its simulationgamebook series. This game was designed by Mr. Takanashi who is known as a professor designer in Japan. As always, Takanashi's game concentrates very specific aspect of the battle. This time, it concentrates "Supply". In this game, the units must have supply to move to attack and even...
Afrika Army Korps covers part of the battle for North Africa using the DAMOS rule-set and provides a solid way to experience the game under conditions radically changed from the Barbarossa series. Without having to worry about bogs, swamps and unreliable steppe, the desert becomes a tankers paradise. Exclusive rules for movement, sea transport, logistics...