Chir 1942 is a simple introductory wargames published in Vae Victis "Hors Serie" nr 10 in August 2008. 33 DTP counters and a 11" x 17 " map at battalion level with some companies. It simulates the battle of December 1942 along the Chir river (so just after the Stalingrad encirclement) where the 11th Panzerdivision of the 48th Panzerkorps managed to destroy...
Microgame #2 in the Metagaming Microgames series. From the rulebook... "On a far planet, summer is ending. It is the time of harvest. And across the fields pour the Hymenoptera - intelligent insects with only one goal...more food for the hive. Chitin I is a tactical abstract from Metagaming's Hymenoptera game system. It simulates a battle between two hive...
Choosy is played on a small (16-space) board using six pieces each of three different types (e.g. three denominations of coins). On a turn a player either places any piece in an empty space or takes a piece to indicate they will score that type at the end of the game; the latter move can only be made once and can't be the last move. At the end of the game...
Vietnam, the first “helicopter war.” For over a decade US Army helicopters flew and fought in the skies of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Now Chopper Pilot Vietnam lets you take part in that conflict as a pilot of the ubiquitous Huey or the deadly Cobra. Chopper Pilot Vietnam is a solitaire and cooperative game in which you fly as a US Army Warrant Officer...
CHOPPER WAR is a solitaire game of Helicopter Combat in Vietnam. The player assumes the role of a commander of an Air Cavalry Troop consisting of Gunships, Scout Ships and Lift Ships, plus, a platoon of Aero-Rifles. As commander, you are responsible for securing your Area of Operations (AOR) by successfully locating, fixing and destroying the enemy. Your...
On June 15, 1950, the North Korean Army invaded South Korea. The United Nations' counterattack began on September 15th when the United States' XCorps landed at Inchon. By late November, the Communist forces were pushed north almost all the way to China. The American forces were promised they would be home for Christmas. On November 27th, 100,000 Chinese...
"Chosin: X Corps Escapes the Trap", is a two-player, intermediate-complexity simulation of the fighting in eastern North Korea in late 1950 in which the Chinese attacked the United Nation’s X Corps as it approached the Yalu River. One of the more famous incidents of the campaign was the US Marine Corps 1st Division fighting its way out of an envelopment at...
Christians and Lions is a game for two or three players, and in fact requires the participation of the Divine Being Himself. (Are you on His good side?) It somewhat facetiously recreates the dire plight of those first Christians, facing certain death in the arena. We suggest that for maximum enjoyment and playability the participants forget for the time...
CHROMA is an abstract strategy game for two players on a hexagonal grid. Two teams — RGB (Red, Green, Blue) and CMY (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow) — compete using omplementary color capture. Players take turns placing one of their three colors on empty hexes. A piece can capture an adjacent enemy if it is its complementary color: Red captures Cyan, Green captures...
A huge meteor containing some form of extra-terrestrial life crashes to Earth somewhere in the icy wasteland of Antarctica. The American government sets up a secret facility whose goal is to contain and examine these new and unfamiliar lifeforms — but something goes wrong. A huge storm damages the station, destroying vital systems. The alien microbes...