"North Korea invaded the Republic of South Korea in 1950. The UN voted to recommend military assistance to the Republic of South Korea, and President Truman sent US troops to Korea. The North captured much of the Korean Peninsula and the only hold outs were in the Pusan Perimeter. General MaCarthur proposed relieving the pressure on Pusan with a surprise...
"During the reign of Queen Victoria Great Britain built an impressive empire that spanned the globe. One of their most colorful military campaigns took place in 1879 when the British provoked a war with the Zulus in South Africa. The British expected a quick and easy victory but the Zulu warriors were no push overs . . . Isandlwana was the most disastrous...
“The Battle of King’s Mountain was not fought between British troops and American Regulars. It was Americans fighting against their neighbors, family and friends. Major Ferguson was the Loyalist commander and was a part of Lord Cornwallis’ army." "On October 7th 1780, Ferguson set up a camp on King’s Mountain. The Continental Army under the command of Col....
"The Battle of Lake Erie, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Put-In-Bay, was fought on September 10, 1813 on Lake Erie off the coast of Ohio during the War of 1812." "Under light and variable winds, nine American vessels under the command of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry challenged the British Commander Robert Barclay’s squadron of six vessels for...
“In 1241 the mighty Mongol army launched an invasion into Europe. While the main force headed for a showdown in Hungary a smaller army was sent into Poland as a diversion. A large Polish and Germany army, led by Henry the Pious of Silesia, marched off to link up with King Wenceslas of Bohemia's army. The Mongols confronted them as they passed the town of...
“The mighty Persian Empire was more than a little annoyed when the Greeks encouraged the Ionians to revolt. After crushing the revolt King Darius decided to punish the upstarts. In 490 BC he led an army of over 40,000 soldiers into Greece. There they faced a force of 10,000 Athenians on the plains of Marathon. The Athenians surprised the Persians by...
From the designer: This is an even simpler, air group version (for me and my 8 year old son to play) of my squadron level 1990 game Deadly Reckoning, which I am in the process of revising/updating. It nonetheless seems to have all the essential elements and decision points of a depthy Midway game. 90 miles per hex, 3 hour turns, 13 Japanese combat units...
At 11:54 am on Thursday, 16 August 1956, the US Navy launched an unmanned target drone from Naval Air Station (NAS) Point Mugu in Southern California. It was supposed to have been just another routine weapons testing flight in which the target drone would be shot down. After take-off, however, the ground controllers realized the target drone’s radio...
“The Sengoku or ‘Warring States’ period of Japanese history lasted from 1467 - 1615 AD. During this time warlords and their samurai armies waged civil war. In 1590 Toyotomi Hideyoshi succeeded in uniting Japan under his rule. After his death there was a power struggle between a coalition of Eastern clans led by Tokugawa Ieyasu and a Western coalition led...
“It is summer in the North Atlantic, 1942. Admiral Dönitz’s German U-boats are prowling the east coast of North America and the mid Atlantic shipping lanes, inflicting heavy losses on the Allied merchant fleet carrying desperately need supplies to Europe.” “Each Convoy player has at least one US or British destroyer and two merchants in their charge. On...
A classroom game for six groups of history students, grades 6 to 8. “This simulation is about feudal Europe from 700 AD - 1200 AD, the late Middle Ages. The simulation is not set in any specific part of Europe, and the term ‘baron’ is used to refer to nobles. It is intended to familiarize the students with some of the basic characteristics of life in the...