With the Expansion New Markets players can generate a completely new distribution of merchandise. Instead of using the merchandise printed on the map players will now place the merchandise token by random principle over the map. We included a couple of options. For example a completely open distribution and the option of placing the merchandise face down....
Over centuries empires in the Mediterranean Seas invested in expansion of their territory, mostly peaceful by merchants and not by soldiers. There have been immense opportunities to build trading powers in the rich and fertile regions all over the Mediterranean Sea. But the moment will come when the greed for more power and wealth can only be stopped by...
Planned to be a nine-part series of games covering all of WWII based on the B.H. Liddell Hart book of the same name. This is a grand strategic hex and counter turn-based WWII wargame. Hexes are 175km, a turn is one month. Combat is by dice on CRT and based on both attack/defense ratings and type of attack/defense. This was Part 1: Hitler Turns Against...
The Overrunning of the West was the second installment of The History of the Second World War series. Part 2 covers the battles for Western Europe through 1941. Scenarios include: The Overrunning of Poland, The Overrunning of Norway, The Overrunning of the West, The Battle of Britain, The Overrunning of the Balkans and Crete, and a campaign game. Part 2:...
"Hitler's Counterstroke in France" is a battalion-level simulation of "Operation Liege", the German counter-attack around Mortain in Normandy in August 1944, which was designed to cut off the US 3rd Army. The game features ranged artillery fire, German command radius, Allied roadblocks, fortified positions, Allied air strikes, German anti-aircraft units...
Hitler's Last Gamble: The Battle of the Bulge is the Rand Game Associates Operational level entry for Battle of the Bulge, unique for the use of German identification symbols on the German counters. This title was one of the two release in their second year of subscription games (along with Brandy Station) before they went out of business. Collectively...
The Last Gamble, Designer Signature Edition is Danny Parker's final effort to create a memorable game on the Battle of the Bulge. The scale is conventional: 2 miles per hex, battalions and regimental units; two turns per day. However, the game has many innovations never before seen. Day and night turns differ dramatically both with respect to movement and...
Hitler's Last Gamble is an intermediate/advanced game for two players that includes unique, new information discovered by Designer, Danny 'Mr. Bulge' Parker. In December of 1944. six months after the Allied invasion of France. the total defeat of Nazi Germany seemed inevitable. On both the Eastern and Western fronts the Allies were on German soil. It...
The siege of Breslau in 1945 which defied all odds and actually held out until after the end of the war vs. the onslaught of the Soviet 6th army of 80,000+ men plus hundreds of tanks and huge amounts of air and artillery support. In the end, the Soviets lost 12,000 dead to the German 6,000 and the city (along with all of eastern Germany) was incorporated...
After being cut off and isolated in mid-February 1945, the German garrison at Breslau, some 50,000 men, defied all odds holding onto the city for almost a week AFTER Berlin fell! Hitler had ordered the city be held at all costs, believing Soviet forces tied up there were thus not taking part in any assault on Berlin. The defending garrison finally...
The game examines the war in Europe at several levels. Operation Barbarossa concentrates on the great ground struggle waged for four long years between Stalingrad and Berlin. The Fall of Germany begins at the eve of the great amphibious invasion of France and expands the war into the West. The War for Europe completes the picture with an examination of the...
Hitler Strikes North is a remake and facelift of a classic game from the 1980's by Quarterdeck Games, and licensed to Hobby Japan. Many of the changes from the original reflect research I have conducted since the original game design and are reflected from our co-authored book Hitler Strikes North. Errors have also been corrected. The game map shows...