Conflicts in American History: The Civil War - Module 1 is a SPI published soapbox size wargame consisting of 9 copies of Antietam and 9 copies of Cemetery Hill both wargames from their Blue & Gray series. There is an additional teachers instruction booklet, 2 historical briefings booklets, two test questions booklets and one Bulletin board poster to...
The American Civil War was the bloodiest conflict and a defining event in the history of the United States. The tragedy of the conflict was amplified by the fact the battles were brutally fought with Napoleonic tactics while using new and more lethal weaponry. As a result, over the course of nearly four full years of war, roughly 700,000 Americans were...
John Theissen’s streamlined approach to operational warfare in the nineteenth century in games such as Hood’s Last Gamble and Campaign of Nations has won him a number of admirers. Now he turns his attention to the last war of the Roman Republic, to the marching of Legions and the sailing of fleets, to the rise of Augustus and the fall of Marc Antony and...
Anvil-Dragoon is an upcoming game from LPD Games' Campaigns of the Second World War series. From LPD's website: "Allied invasion of South France, August 1944. The Germans must deny the Allies the great ports of Marseilles and Toulon and preserve their far flung garrisons. The Allies must conduct a campaign of mobile maneuver, link up with Patton's Third...
Anvil-Dragoon: Southwall 1944 was the game in issue #60 of The Wargamer Magazine. Anvil-Dragoon: Southwall 1944 is a simulation of the Allied invasion of France during WWII. It covers the time period from August 14th (D-Day minus 1) through September 12 (official date of the linkup between Dragoon and Overlord forces). Before the dawn of August 15th, 1944...
ANVIL-DRAGOON is a regimental/brigade level simulation of the invasion of Southern France in August 1944. One player represents the German forces employed in this area and maneuvers unit counters which represent the German forces which were or which could have been involved in this campaign. The other player represents the allied commander, and maneuvers...
(from the 4th edition back box and user's description:) Few games have been kept up to date as much as ANZIO has. Revised and revised again, a good game has gotten better and better. Played on a 44" X 14" mapboard of Italy, the game recreates the Allied amphibious Invasions and campaigns to secure the peninsula leading to the heart of Europe. The Allies...
Anzio Beachhead is an operational level simulation game of the allied invasion of the Italian mainland near Rome during WWII. The invasion began January 22, 1944, under the code name Operation Shingle. It had the Alban Hills and the isolation of the German army as its objective. Failing in this, Allied troops would have to hold until relieved. Here Hitler...
Anzio / Cassino is the first pair of games in Mike Rinella's Battle Command Series with Worthington Games. The Battle Command Series are quick playing games with large 7/8" counters, a double sided map board, rules, and dice. Each battle has 4 pages of rules. Units are rated for their strength and movement, as well an endurance rating that reflect how much...
Anzio – Drive to Rome is a two player, World War Two regimental level simulation covering the first month of fighting in the Anzio bridgehead in Italy during January and February 1944. Under the auspices of Operation Shingle, Allied units from both the United States of America and Great Britain conducted a beach landing in the area surrounding Anzio in an...
Anzio: Operation Shingle covers the initial Allied landings on the 22nd January to the failure of the second German offensive, Operation Seitensprung, to eliminate the beachhead on the 1st March. The whole campaign can be replayed as well as several scenarios covering key parts of the battle. The game also allows alternative plans to be explored such as...