Pixel Tactics is a head-to-head game of tactical combat for two players. Each player has an identical deck of 25 cards, from which they draft a leader. The leader's abilities alter vastly the strategy and playability of every other card in the deck, making the game playable in 25 different ways. In the game, players take turns placing cards and attacking....
Fast 8-turn game about Operation Market Garden 13-29Sep44, from south of Eindhoven to north of Arnhem. 12 Allied and 15 German pieces. "Monty Fantasy" 50% possibility the German SS panzer divisions *won't* be there at game-start to confront the paradrops. Basic 25%-50%-25% combat odds allocation/resolution system. Weather 50% good after Turn 1. Hidden city...
Postcard Brittany is a relatively fast and simple - NO "Zones of Control!" - but historical little 6-turn sudden-death postcard wargame about General George Patton's August 1944 coup de main attempts to grab the major French ports of Brittany, before the Germans could organize their defenses. Regimental level: 14 German units, 3 French FFI groups, and 11...
Micro game necessitated by postcard format. 11 day and night turns. SECRET Allied code-breaking possibility to get Yorktown as well as Lexington fleet carriers. Neat Port Moresby landing rule: number of surviving (of 11) Japanese transports plus UnDamaged shore-bombarding Japanese cruiser units roll 2 dice to see if they take it. Battle can continue in...
A couple weeks ago my 11 year old daughter beat me in this in a typical last-minute cliff-hanger game. The game is so unpredictable - all the chances are 50% die rolls or coin tosses - it is ideal for solitaire play too. 8 half-month turns for U.S. or Japan to take and keep Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. 2 battleship, 2 cruiser - a 3rd for U.S. if/when 1 is...
Postcard Midway is a lightspeed fast, simple little Battle of Midway postcard wargame. Although it shows 16 turns, early destruction of the Japanese Kido Butai carrier striking force can decide the game in the first 4, as historically. Fog of War has been fully worked in: the US has only a 50% codebreaking chance (of setting up a Point Luck or wherever...
VERY simple little diminuation of Murmansk Run: Arctic Convoys to Russia, triggered by the Norwegian film KONVOI to be released in the US as The Arctic Convoy. The star of the film, SS Hestmanden/Horseman exists, docked down at Norway's Merchant Sailors' Museum in Løvika near Kristiansand. Can be played solitaire by random contact/combat selection of the...
Myitkyina was a prolonged torturous affair, but vital to the re-opening of the Ledo/Burma Road to supply our beleaguered Chinese allies. After an end-around to the north over/through a high mountain ridge, Chinese divisions and our Merrill's Marauders - 5307th Infantry Regiment - descended on the town and its airfield from the north to the surprise - shock...
Postcard Remagen, 7 March 1945 is a tense, mutually frustrating little game about First US Army attempting - historically successfully, of course - to be the first to fight across the Rhine River into Germany in March 1945. 9 US Army pieces - from one of the first M-26 Pershing platoons up to 78th Infantry Division regiments - urgently and desperately...
Theme is the maneuvering of game pieces on a 6x6, 8x8 and 10x10 square board layout to Trap and Purge the Baron Game play is similar to Chess, if it were on steroids There are a lot of game pieces involved, about 102 starting pieces and 2 decks of cards It's a table top game, meant to be played in a modular fashion, so that no 2 games have to be played in...
The Raven Order is a captivating strategy game designed for two players who compete for domination in a dark fantasy realm. Players must build their base, train different warriors and send them into battle. The core of the game's strategy hinges on the players' ability to judiciously choose their build order. This critical decision-making process is...