This wargame is the second in the Oriental Flagship Company's "Red Memories" series. (The Nanchang Rebellion is the first in the series.) The game is a simulation of a famous campaign in the Chinese Civil War. The player controlling the Communist units deploys and moves secretly on a small magnetic board, while the Kuomintang player's units are visible...
Quadrigame of the Dresden Campaign: August-September 1813. Components: Four 22 x 17" maps and 560 two-sided units; 48 pages of rules including campaign analysis, designers notes and more; 4 player aid cards, 2 decks of cards (total of 96) used to effect deployments, arrivals, status of troops. Battles covered, GROSSBEEREN: To the Gates of Berlin, 23 August...
Covers the Autumn Campaign, August-September, 1813. Update of the 2005 edition, with new maps and Universal Card System. Battles covered: GROSSBEEREN: To the Gates of Berlin, 23 August KATZBACH: A Perilous Passage, 26 August KULM: Enfilade in the Mountains, 29-30 August DENNEWITZ: Collapse in the North, 6 September After the defeats of Grossgörschen (May...
Fourteen Days in June: the Waterloo Campaign is a two-player wargame played on a hex-grid superimposed upon a map depicting north east France and (what is now) southern Belgium. The game focuses upon the struggle in June 1815 between the French army under Napoleon Bonaparte and the Allied armies led by the Duke of Wellington and von Blücher. The game...
In the year 2388, a group of university students working in the Tycho Crater settlement, New Pottsdam, invent the long-desired technology of a Faster Than Light (FTL) propulsion system. (In this case, an Alcubierre design.) Mankind expands outward in every direction, for 3000 light years, in the next 700 years. It is now the year 3000 AD, and after a...
Each player uses their fox to capture some of each of the types of fowl (chickens, ducks, geese and turkey) that are found in the farmyard. Players gain points for the fowl they have captured and also for saving from capture those fowl that share one or more of the same characteristics as their chosen target card. Each round every player chooses to play...
The Blitzkrieg in the West series moves to the desert with this debut title. Gazala was a resounding victory for the Desert Fox, Irwin Rommel, although at an extremely high cost in the DAK's tanks. Because of these losses, Rommel lacked the armored forces in subsequent battles to decisively defeat the Eighth Army as it retreated into Egypt. This led...
"Foxbat & Phantom" is a wargame simulation of tactical aerial combat in the 1970's. The game is basically a two player game but it can be modified to accommodate any number of players. Each player manipulates his aircraft on a grid which simulates air space. 255 counters. This game places two sides in a jet (era) dogfight. Each player starts with 3 planes...
Note regarding capitalization in title: Although the word "und" in Komet Und Meteor is technically not supposed to be capitalized, that is how the word was used by the publisher. This game imagines a catastrophe of sufficient scale (say, the failure of the Normandy Landings) to cause a massive shift of Ground and Naval Forces to the more successful Pacific...
Foxhole is a grand tactical game of Second World War ground combat. The object of the game is to defeat the opposing forces within the confines and conditions of a given scenario . . . "Each hex on the map represents an area approximately 100 yards across. Each playing piece represents about 40-60 men (a platoon) or half a dozen vehicles or towed weapons ....
Foxhole is a series of board wargames planned to cover a number of important battles of World War II and later those of other wars from the Napoleonic Wars to the War on Terror. Players assume the roles of Divisional or Corps commander. Although there are other ways to play the game, in the historical scenarios the goal is not to "win", but rather to do...