At dawn on 25 October 1983, the United States of America attacked the island nation of Grenada, 100 miles (160 km) north of Venezuela. Codenamed Operation Urgent Fury, the multinational intervention was the result of a formal appeal for help from the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States triggered by the strife within the People's Revolutionary...
Produced by the Westinghouse Labs Weapons Division, possibly as a sales or training aid. A simple two-player board, card and dice game of force building and maintenance set during the Cold War. Each turn each player (Red and Blue) must use his budget to buy new combat units (air, land or naval) or support units (bases, repair depots, etc) and maintain his...
London 1982 (sic) is a solitaire war game depicting the action, called Operation Nimrod, performed by SAS, one of the first British Special Forces, in the Iranian Embassy in London on May 5th 1980, where a group of terrorists had kept for 6 days several hostages. A daring operation, which was a success with the liberation of the hostages and the...
Publisher's blurb: "This is 1985. This is World War III. But this is not your typical World War III. There are many accurate-to-the-underwear-brand World War III games to choose from, and the ones that I have played are quite good. This, however, is not one of them. Although The Long Road flirts with reality, it’s not ready to move in and live with it....
"The Lost Valley: The Siege of Diên Biên Phù" is a solitaire dice and card-driven board wargame of tactics and resources management about the battle of Diên Biên Phù, which saw the defeat of the French Expeditionary Corps in Indochina by the Vietnamese People’s Army in 1954. This battle signaled the beginning of the end for the French Colonial Empire and...
We were sent on patrol. The squad was depleted, morale in the pits. Then one of our guys exploded. Ambush. Surrounded. Our lucky day. We tried to hold them off and radioed for evac, but the helicopter wouldn’t come unless the landing zone was clear. We had to hold out. We had to survive… The Lucky Seven is a tactical solitaire game set in an unknown...
LZ Albany depicts the ambush of US air cavalry units by the North Vietnamese Army on 17 November 1965, during the Pleiku Campaign. Turns cover one hour, with multiple impulses driven by a random chit draw. Additional chits add extra assets like artillery and air power. US and NVA platoons maneuver through areas of jungle, sawgrass, and clearings. Leaders...
"This game simulates the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu (Ma'alinti Rangers - The day of the Rangers - in Somali). The game is designed for solo play, the player controlling the U.S. and U.N. forces involved in the battle, while the game system simulates the Somali defenders." The game comes with an historical article, rules, an A4-size map of the Mogadishu area...