A Fading Star: Insurgency and Piracy in Somalia is Volume XV of the COIN Series originally designed by Volko Ruhnke. The year is 2007. We reach the climax of the several decades of civil war that have ravaged Somalia since the fall of dictator Siad Barre in 1991. An African Union coalition, assisted by the Ethiopian army, enters Mogadishu to support a...
Fail Safe is a wargame of a hypothetical strategic nuclear air war sometime in the late 1950s, before the age of the ballistic missile. There are two players, the East Bloc and the Free World. Each player has units representing formations of aircraft, weapons systems, and air defense forces. Players move their units, conduct air-to-air battles, and bomb...
Falcon Ace is a highly detailed tactical solitaire game simulating modern air combat with the F-16 'Fighting Falcon'. Players may choose to play a single battle, play a full mission with multiple waypoints, battle for control of a portion of a country, or play a full-scale war that may last weeks! You will select your air, ground, and pod armament before...
Falkland Sound is a mini-game game based on Mayfair's 'War in the Falklands' of 1982 (WitF was two games, one of the 1914 battle between Britain and Germany, and one of the 1982 war between Britain and Argentina) and was provided in a ziplock bag. Production number is unknown. Meant to introduce players to the combat procedures used in WitF, there are no...
BACKGROUND: The Falklands Ablaze is a solitaire semi-historical simulation of the Falklands War (May – June 1982). The Game begins shortly after the Argentinians capture the Port City of Stanley after a surprise attack. The British have mustered their Task Forces and have arrived just of the northern coast of the Falkland Islands. The British must now...
Falklands Showdown: The 1982 Anglo-Argentine War, designed by Philip Sharp, is an intermediate complexity two-player strategic and operational wargame of the conflict that took place between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982. It begins with Argentina in control of the Falkland Islands and UK forces approaching to try to retake them. Aircraft...
“The Falklands War is a two player simulation of the conflict fought over the islands of the same name. Play starts on the 1st of May, 1982 and ends by either a diplomatic resolution of the crisis or the defeat of one side by the other. The game is played in a series of game turns in which players alternate moves and combat according to the Sequence of...
The Fall of South VietNam: A Game of Combat in South VietNam - 1973-1975 is a two-player Strategic level board wargame on the last two years of the VietNam War. The Fall of Saigon in the South of Vietnam by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front on April 30, 1975 marked the end of the VietNam War and the start of a transition period...
This game recreates the "Blackhawk Down" conflict of the early nineties in Somalia between the US forces and the forces of the Somali warlord Adid. As the US Army Rangers and Special Forces, your troops are stranded in the middle of a hostile city, and you will have to fight your way back to the US army base, with what little assistance from the air you...
“You control a US Marine Company on Patrol in Fallujah.” The game uses a custom deck of sixty cards. There are ten different kinds of cards in the deck: Insurgent Tactics, Insurgents, Positions, Explosives, American Tactics, Infantry, Armor, Support , Recon, and Disarm. The player’s score is based on how many casualties are suffered by the player's Company...
November, 2004: Intelligence indicates that terrorist leader Abu Masab Al-Zarqawi is hiding in Fallujah, a town about 40 miles west of Baghdad. Capturing Al-Zarqawi, an associate of Osama bin Laden and the mastermind of numerous terrorist attacks throughout the Middle East since the 1990s, is the military's highest priority. On 7 November, Coalition forces...