From the back of the box: "You send a squad to draw fire, and if they draw fire and come back, then you know where the Germans are." - anonymous soldier in Normandy, 1944 Hetzer: the Bushwacker. Not just a tank, but a strategy. In the hedges of Normandy, the mountain villages of Italy, and the forests of Belgium, Allied and German soldiers fought a tense...
The 2nd edition of "SNIPER!" This game has been combined with the game "PATROL", and the rules have been expanded and thoroughly revised compared to the 1st edition of "SNIPER!". This game looks at war from foxhole level. Each counter represents a single soldier, each turn a handful of seconds, and each victory is a building cleared or a few meters of...
From the box: Special Forces. Small units, painstakingly trained and elaborately equipped, sent on the toughest and most sensitive missions. Handfuls of soldiers, hopelessly outnumbered, waging hit-and-run campaigns behind enemy lines. SAS. Green Berets. Freedom fighters. Deltas. Sniper! Special Forces expands the popular Sniper! (Second Edition) game...
In spite of the darkness, the SOF Warrior’s NODs enabled him to see a lone sentry armed with an AK-47 sitting approximately 75 meters away. Suddenly, the man stood up and the SOF operative froze in place. He cursed under his breath as he realized something must have betrayed his presence. Although, he was certain he had not been spotted, the man began to...
Soldiers of the Sun is a solo, tactical treatment of infantry conflict in the Pacific theater during WWII. The innovative system functions without a map and incorporates a unique activation system that pits units of the team/squad scale against each other. Initiative can change rapidly throughout game turns via chit draw and each turn has the potential to...
Somewhere far beyond: Prairie Grove 1862 is a print & play only wargame, on this battle fought in Arkansas 7th December 1862, as a sideshow to the principal theaters of war during the American Civil War. It is the second entry in a system premiered with the succesfull and Charles Roberts Award nominated Innocence Lost: the battle of Bull Run. It is a...
Somosierra 1808 covers the battle on November 30th 1808 between the French advance-guard and Spanish Benito San Juan corps. This games part of the Jours de Gloire series and was published in VV#83 Rules : Jours de Gloire Empire version 1808, with specific rules for SOLITAIRE PLAYING Scale : 1 hex. = 500 m / 1 counter = 1 regiment with a exception for...
Get a lil' hillbilly on the lily! Draw tiles to make Froggy bands! Howdy, Y'all. M'buddy SeaBass calls me “Song-Froggy”, and so can you's all, if'n ya like. I'm wit ya today to do some splainin' on dis here game ya got yer eyeballs on. Now, you're gonna need some scratch paper and a crayon to keep score, just so's ya know. The whole durn point of the game...
Sons of the Great Elephant: The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 is a low-complexity solitaire wargame on the 1879 Zulu War. The game uses point-to-point movement and a chit pull mechanic to simulate events and enemy army formations. The player commands British forces and native allies. On each turn, the player will select a British Leader and build forts, move...
Ensign Jones grabbed a handrail as the federation missile slammed into the aft hull of the ship. The explosion rocked the ship he and the others were encased in, shacking it like some small child playing with a toy. "Damn", he thought as he pulled himself along the passage tube, "Another hit like that and we might not survive this engagement." With the...
Space Crusade is a cooperative effort between Milton Bradley UK and Games Workshop. It takes the role-playing elements from Milton Bradley's Heroquest and merges them with Game Workshop's dark vision of the future. From the manual.... "One player must control the aliens. This player is called the Alien Player. The other players control the three Commanders...