Guadalajara is a strategy game that reproduces the battle of the same name happened during the Spanish Civil War from 8th to 23rd March 1937. This was the last attemp of Franco to conquer the spanish capital, this time using the powerful Iatlian army corps to encircle Madrid from the Northeast. The battle resulted in a shocking defeat of the franquist...
Guadalajara, portrays the operations launched by the Italian CTV (Corpo Truppe Volontarie—Corps of Volunteer Troops) towards Guadalajara with the ultimate objective of taking Madrid and putting a rapid end to the Spanish Civil War. The unexpected and dogged resistance of the Republican Army, which was fully involved in a deep reorganization, caused the...
Guerilla is a multi-player simulation card-wargame. Three to six players vie for control of the government as rebels wage a civil war against those in power. As in real guerrilla warfare, the government forces are handicapped by their inability to separate friend from foe. This "fog of war" is accomplished by a clever dichotomy of goals wherein each player...
Against the Odds magazine #23 Americans seldom notice the enormous changes that the Napoleonic Wars caused to the Western Hemisphere...things far larger and with much greater effects than our own War of 1812. The Louisiana Purchase really started it, as Napoleon sold Jefferson a large block of land that really "belonged" to Spain. In shifting their forces...
The Guerrilla Generation: Cold War Insurgencies in Latin America is the second COIN multipack, containing four separate games exploring a series of thematically related insurgencies. Building on the The British Way, this new multipack allows players to explore variations in insurgent groups’ organizational structures, strategies, and relationship with...
The Guns of Cedar Creek is one of the games of the Great Battles of the American Civil War series. The game covers the decisive Battle of Cedar Creek, fought in the Shenandoah Valley at Middletown, VA, on October 19, 1864. After this Confederate defeat, the Union states would never again be threatened by a Southern invasion. The game includes 600 counters...
This campaign sourcebook focuses on the Battles that brought Julius Caesar to power as Rome's first emperor and the covers the military beginnings of Imperial Rome. —user summary Gaius Julius Caesar was surely the most famous Roman of all time – conqueror, statesman and founder of an empire that would shape the destiny of the world. What’s more, we know...
Hammer and Sickle is a fast-paced, four-player asymmetric game covering one of the most desperate and world-shaping conflicts of the 20th century, in which four competing ideologies battled for supremacy over the former Russian Empire. Each season, players will alternate using Action and Commander cards to rally their forces, spread or clamp down on...
Operation Brunete was an epic battle of the Spanish Civil War in July, 1937. It would be the only large scale use of Russian tanks during the war. Over 100 T-26B tanks and armor cars would be used to break the stalemate setting in around Madrid. The goal of the offensive was to cutoff and isolate the city with two prongs: One from the west from the Brunete...
“It was a hard day’s work, but officers and men worked with a will, and did their duty—no flinching, no shirking.” –Correspondent “Irwin” comments about the conduct of the Union attack at Droop Mountain. A Hard Day’s Work is a moderate complexity level game on the largest battle fought in West Virginia during the American Civil War. On November 1st, 1863...
“It was a hard day’s work, but officers and men worked with a will, and did their duty—no flinching, no shirking.” –Correspondent “Irwin” comments about the conduct of the Union attack at Droop Mountain. A Hard Day’s Work is a moderate complexity level game on the largest battle fought in West Virginia during the American Civil War. On November 1st, 1863...