Relatively fast, free print-and-play minimalist convoys campaign game to keep Britain alive and build up for D-Day, opposed by U-boats, Kondor(/Vulture) etc. bombers, and the usual suspects: Scharnhorst, Bismarck, a pocket battleship, a raider, etc. Half-year turns. NO GRID. }:-) 3 convoy lanes to lay out with 1 or more convoys per lane plus any escorting...
Atlantic Sentinels is a solitaire, tactical level game placing you as the Senior Officer of the Escort, shepherding a convoy in the North Atlantic from the attacks of U-boats, both singly and in wolfpacks. You are in command of a convoy escort group, composed typically of 4-10 escort vessels guarding a convoy on its way across the Atlantic. Your mission is...
In this unique take on the trick-taking genre, cards represent the units that attacked or defended Allied convoys in the North Atlantic throughout World War II. For each trick, the lead player selects a convoy that traversed either the Arctic or the Atlantic in a given year (1940-1943), then declares whether the battle will be fought in the air, on the...
Atlantic Storm: Admiral’s Edition is the updated and revised version of Ben Knight’s competitive strategy card game Atlantic Storm that recreates the tension and surprise experienced by Allied and Axis sailors during the Battle of the Atlantic from August 1940 through December 1943. Players fight a battle for each convoy, and each player joins either side...
6 June 1944: While German Troops battled for their lives on the Eastern Front, all remained quiet in the West. The long anticipated allied invasion seemed particularly unlikely along this portion of French Coast known as Normandy. But this was D-Day, and the unlikely was soon to become reality. As the vast Allied armada came into view, as Allied munitions...
(from Decision Games' website) ON 6 JUNE 1944 the greatest armada the world has ever seen approached northern France. That fleet consisted of more than 5,300 ships carrying over 300,000 men and 50,000 vehicles. Opposing them was Germany’s veteran Wehrmacht. ATLANTIC WALL is a grand-tactical simulation of that campaign. The counters represent almost every...
Some have called it the most crucial campaign of the Second World War. It was not fought on the ground with tanks and artillery; it was the Battle of the Atlantic, pitting the German Wolfpacks versus the allied convoy system. Upon the result of the campaign hung the fate of Great Britain, and, by extension, the Allied cause in Europe. "Atlantic Wolves" is...
Reprint of earlier boxed game on the city fight in Stalingrad. This page is for the re-print that ATO is doing of the OOP game from Last Stand Games. We set the page up in the hopes of getting BGG to 'notice' it and include it on their "Kickstarters ending this week" listing. Failed. There is plenty of good material and discussions at the original page...
This is a Stratego-like game that's actually two games, an army game and a navy game. Pieces are set up on a board in a manner similar to Stratego, but rather than being linear (numerical values), the units have a rock-paper-scissors relationship. i.e. the tank unit is superior to infantry and engineers but is inferior to aircraft, artillery, and mine...
Description from the publisher: More Advanced Tobruk System adventures for the 101st Airborne in Normandy with eight scenarios featuring The Screaming Eagles on D-Day and the days that follow. This is a Deluxe Map version, featuring the largest hexes ever in an ATS product - no more stacking! This set contains: 8 scenarios on four cards a giant hex map...
From the publisher's website: ITEM POCKET, OKINAWA, 20 April 1944: As the afternoon wore on with ‘G’ Company unable to release the Japanese grip on the Pocket, Lieutenant Colonel McDonough decided to send up ‘E’ Company. At 1350 hours the company commander, Captain George R. J. Weigand, was ordered to move up between the two ridges, then turn left, using...