From the intro: Wild Fire, or WF, is a table top miniature wargame for 10-30 mm figures. It is focussed on reinforced platoon level skirmish games, and is suitable for one off games, or campaigns, but can be used to play games as small as squad size. It uses the same system as Baptism of Fire: World War II Skirmish Wargaming. It's been reprinted together...
Wild Geese: living on the front line, Mercenary Units In Action Around The World, 1960’s To The 1990’s. The life of a mercenary depends upon the accounts you read or your approach to the topic. On one level, mercenary life can seem romantic, an adventure, where often noble Soldiers of Fortune venture forth to save lives, right wrongs and vanquish the evil...
From the website: Wings Over Suez is part of the Wings at War series of wargames rules from Tumbling Dice. Wings is designed for recreating Arab-Israeli War air combat using Tumbling Dice's 1/600th scale aircraft models. The games are designed to last around one or two hours. As the sky tends to be a lot less cluttered than the ground, games can be set up...
The Winning Edge This is a U.S. Army artillery training device that uses a question-and-answer trivia game format. It appears to have been printed in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Category titles include MOS/Specialty, NBC, Fieldcraft, Crew Served Weapons, and Uniforms. Players must also complete FFE (Fire For Effect) missions and TOT (Time On Target)...
From the One Page Wars game series. A simple, abstract game portraying a ground attack campaign by F-18 Hornets. "Goal: Defeat Somalian forces in a quick strike campaign. You play the 101st tactical ground attack. This unit is assigned to the USS Nimitz. While F-14's/EA-6's and other aircraft fly missions, you are assigned to take out ground targets around...
We’re not even supposed to do things like this, the Police Captain thought. She did not give credence to the initial phone reports a half hour ago, but now the growl of approaching Cuban armored vehicles echoed in the streets among the buildings of her town. She continued to shout to her officers last moment, desperate instructions: “Heads low! Stay behind...
Red Lightning is the SIXTH volume in the World at War 85 Series of games of fast and furious platoon-level combat. The series is set in 1985, in an alternate history of World War III. With the Warsaw Pact armies driving deep into Western Europe, the Soviets open another front in the Arctic Circle. Sweden, Norway and - in an unexpected and lightning strike...
The commander of the West German 15th Panzer Brigade held the headphones away from his ears, protecting them from the voice of his border battalion commander, the man’s voice rambling and emanating out of them at high volume. “There are Soviet tanks pouring across the border south of us heading for the Fulda crossings, our Intel section says it must be the...
Storm and Steel Second Wave is a fast-paced action-packed expansion featuring West German forces defending their country against Czech and Soviet invaders. Basing these expansions on the action and forces from the novel, Storm and Steel Second Wave – the Final Line adds TWO NEW COUNTER SHEETS and THREE NEW MAPS to your World At War 85 forces. Now you can...
The Defense of Frankfurt module simulates fightimg on maps of a real section of the Fulda Gap, near Frankfurt West Germany, and adapted specifically for World At War 85 play. The eight summer maps of the sixteen maps herein, when configured in a specific pattern, display a monster-sized fighting area northwest of Frankfurt, West Germany. The other eight...
The Drive on Giessen is a campaign game for WaW85 that allows the play of a set of linked game scenarios depicting a Soviet division’s drive across West Germany against NATO forces. The Operational map will depict an area roughly from Eisenach GDR to Giessen FRG; a distance of about 75 kilometers in depth and 20 kilometers wide. The Operational map will...
World at War 85: Operation Red Gauntlet, Crossing the Mighty Weser is an expansion pack for BLOOD AND FURY, the latter being the SECOND volume in The WORLD AT WAR 85 SERIES of games of fast and furious platoon-level combat. Set in 1985, in an alternate history of World War III, when the Warsaw Pact armies storm across the border of East Germany in a...