It is August 1942. Hitler drives further into Russia. In North Africa, Rommel pushes the British into Egypt. Until Midway, the Japanese empire expanded unchecked. Now, for the first time, America takes the offensive. But the IJA is legendary and undefeated in battle. Is the US Marine Corps up to the task? The Guadalcanal is the second of Dark City Game's...
Japan attacked the Allied powers on 7 December 1941 and ran rampant across the Pacific Ocean and Asia for six months. But in August of 1942, the Allies would finally strike back. On 7 August, ships appeared off the coast of a small island in the Solomons called Guadalcanal to disgorge troops of the United States Marine Corps. Guadalcanal Diary: The Battle...
Guadalcanal: The Battle for Henderson Field, 1942-1943 is a two-player Operational level wargame. Designed by noted wargame designer Mike Nagel, the game is a true homage to the classic Avalon Hill title as the Japanese and American forces fight bitterly for command of this small island in the South Pacific. It was the first American offensive against...
Deluxe Guadalcanal: The Battle for Henderson Field is a grand tactical game on the efforts of the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Army to capture and hold the island of Guadalcanal during the beginning of the island-hopping campaign to push back the Japanese empire. Errors in strategy and logistics at large made this effort extremely difficult for the Marines...
(from the company website) Guam is a large island for a Pacific island battle. However, it has the fewest exclusive rules of the three games currently in the series (Saipan & Tinian and Attu & Kiska). This means that it should be the easiest and quickest to learn. The large size of the island allows both players to employ a wide variety of strategy...
On the 8th December 1941 American soil was invaded for the first time in the war, the small American and Guananian garrison was overrun and 2 days later the Govenor surrendered the Island to the Japanese. On 21st July 1944 the Americans would return to retake the island and drive the Japanese invaders off; a day that is still celebrated as 'Liberation...
"Guards and Martyrs: The Battle for Basra, December 1986-April 1987" is a two-player Operational level board-wargame of one of the largest and bloodiest battle of the whole Iran-Iraq War. “The battle for Basra will be the mother of all battles.” –Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to the Iranian Supreme Defense Council, January 23, 1987. The Iran-Iraq War was...
Guards Armoured Division: Part of The Famous Divisions series by Decision Games, started with Gross Deutschland Panzer (World at War magazine #20) and continuing with British Guards Armour, uses a system that represents a new evolution in design that brings tactical elements to an otherwise operational simulation. Recreating four battles of the British...
World at War magazine Issue 13 From the publisher's website: Guards Tank: The Battle of Prochorovka, July 1943 (GT), designed by Joseph Miranda, is the first of our new East Front Battles Series. That series will present operational simulations of medium-to-large-sized battles fought during World War II on that front. There will be two players in each...
Guderian's Blitzkrieg - The Drive on Moscow, September 21 to December 20, 1941, is a game of the Fall, 1941 campaign to take the Soviet capital of Moscow. It features the advance of the right flank of Army Group Center consisting of the 2nd Army, 4th Army, 2nd Panzer Group and, for a time, 4th Panzer Group, from late September to late December, 1941. While...
Guderian's Blitzkrieg II: Depicts the German drive to capture Moscow in the fall of 1941 (Operation Typhoon) and the first Russian Winter Counteroffensive. Army Group Center during the swing period of WW2 in the East. This game covers the action from its popular predecessor Guderian's Blitzkrieg (1992), which led the way in Operational Combat System, and...
Last Gamble covers the last German offensive of the war, Operation Solstice, Feb. 1945 by the 11thSS Pz army with 300 AFVs. The attack lasted 4 days and succeeded in penetrating the Russian lines near Arnswalde. Stalin was so shocked by this attack, he diverted huge resources to counter it. The objective was to advance towards Landsberg on the Warthe, by...