"Cherkassy Pocket: Encirclement at Korsun", In the depths of the winter of 1944, the Soviet Red Army executes a pincer operation against a salient in the German lines near the town of Cherkassy. Prevented from retreat by orders of Adolf Hitler, the German forces soon found themselves pocketed, their only supply source an airfield at the town called Korsun....
2 players Red and Blue A hexagonal board made up of triangles. A supply of Red chevrons and Blue chevrons and supply of Red and Blue cubes. Play Red moves first. Then turns alternate. On a turn place a chevron in your color on the board along 2 edges that meet at 120 degrees. A chevron cannot be placed so that it is fully or partially inside of a...
This is a race between 2-4 gangsters and up to 23 policemen. The board depicts a town with 170 hex spaces. 60 of them are specially marked and are filled with turned down "houses". 1 player takes the role of the police and the others take the role of the gangsters. The gangsters can enter the houses and take the tiles laying there. Some of them are worth...
A game on the clash between protesters and police at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Released with Strategy & Tactics magazine #21 (January 1970) along with Flight of the Goeben. Also available from SPI as a separate game. Per Jim Dunnigan "[Chicago, Chicago! was a] serious attempt to model the situation...Non-war games were never expected to be...
"Chickamauga" is a brigade-level wargame simulation of the battle of September 19-20th, 1863 along Chickamauga Creek. The actual battle was a confused melee in which each army went into action piecemeal. The game emphasizes the command and control problems that characterized this battle. It uses a unique planning points accumulation system combined with a...
Chickamauga: Bloody September, 1863 (CBS) is volume four of Paul Koenig’s Bloody Civil War Series. It is a two-player wargame simulating the second bloodiest battle of the war and the biggest defeat for the Union in the West. As the Confederate player, you are in the rare position of outnumbering your enemy. On the first day you must take Thomas' initial...
Chickamauga River of Death is a Brigade level simulation of the Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, fought September 18-20, 1863. With two players, one assumes the role of Braxton Bragg and commands the Confederate Army of Tennessee, the other becomes William S Rosecrans commanding the Union Army of the Cumberland. With 4 players, each assumes command of from...
From the Decision Games' website: The Blue & Gray classics are being updated with a slight change in scale to 352 yards per hex, an updated game system that treats unit differences more accurately, and a combat system that includes step losses. Once again the Union Army of the Cumberland was in pursuit of Gen. Bragg's Army of the Tennessee, after the...
"Chickamauga is a simulation on a Grand Tactical level of the battle which took place between the Union Army of the Cumberland and the Confederate Army of the Tennessee in September, 1863. The battle occurred around Chickamauga Creek, a tributary of the Tennessee River, in Norhern Georgia." (from the Chickamauga rules folder.) Chickamauga is one of four...
Chickasaw Bayou was a grand missed opportunity for the Union Army in its desire to crush the Rebellion. If they had proceeded with haste, the Federals could have captured Vicksburg and delivered a master stroke against the Rebels a sure seven months before Vicksburg surrendered on July 4th 1863. The Union player is as much fighting against the terrain as...
Chicken of the Sea is a game included in issue #3 of GameFix magazine. It's a wargame simulation of the battle of Drepanum, 249 BC (Rome vs Carthage). The title comes from a rather audacious act of the Roman admiral, Claudius the Handsome. He was told by the official augurs that the portents were not good for a naval battle: "the sacred chickens will not...