Operation Iron Brain: The Siege of Beirut, June-August, 1982. For over a year the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) had bombarded Israel’s northern province of Galilee with artillery and rocket fire. On June 6, 1982 the Israeli military invaded southern Lebanon in an operation dubbed “Peace for Galilee”. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) quickly...
Operation Ironclad is a wargame covering the British invasion of the island of Madagascar in 1942. At this time, Vichy French forces controlled Madagascar with the potential of turning the island into a base for Axis attacks against Allied sea lanes in the western Indian Ocean. Ironclad was the first phase of the invasion which began in May and concluded...
This wargame is set in 1951 in an alternate world where the U.S. landing at Leyte Gulf was defeated by the Japanese navy. The Japanese still lose the war but it takes longer and the Soviets and the U.S. are forced to invade Japan. The Soviets have established a communist Northern Japanese people's Republic in Hokkaido while the U.S. establish the...
Operation Isabella (OI) is an intermediate-complexity two player wargame simulating the possible events that could have unfolded across Iberia during the late summer of 1942 if either side’s planned but never run campaigns had been set in motion. A complete game generally takes from two to three hours to complete, and it is suitable for solitaire play....
OPERATION: JIHAD, dated 1980 by Stardragon. A hypothetical mercenary raid on Tehran to either rescue hostages or capture the Ayatollah Khomeini. Bagged, complete and unpunched, with rules, 4 small counter sheets, 4 color map. Requires 2 percentile dice which were not originally included (or other means of generating random numbers from 1 to 100, according...
Portrays the disastrous Commonwealth raid against the German-held French port city of Dieppe in 1942. The game uses a simplified version of the D-Day at Omaha Beach system. (from Publisher website :)Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, August 1942 (OJ) is a purpose-designed solitaire game, by John Butterfield, simulating the disastrous Commonwealth raid against the...
By 1942 the British Admiralty was increasingly fearful of losing control in the skies over the English Channel. Earlier in February the German’s Operation Cerberus saw the battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gniesenau, as well as the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen sail up the channel to ports in Germany, beneath the very noses of the RAF and Royal Navy. New German...
"Operation Jupiter: Churchill’s Plan to Invade Norway, 1942" (OJ) is an intermediate complexity, two-player wargame simulating the possible events that could have unfolded during the first 30 days of this planned but never run World War II campaign. The British prime minister had intended it as a strategic alternative for Operation Torch. A complete game...
Operation Kadesh: The 1956 Suez Crisis, depicts the 1956 conflict between Israel and Egypt, with the possibility of additional Arab countries entering the conflict. The level of world tension escalated dramatically when France and Britain used the conflict as a pretext to seize the Suez Canal, recently nationalized by the new Egyptian President, Gamal...
On August 23rd, 1942, the German 14th Pz Corps broke through with amazing speed to the Volga, north of Stalingrad. The stunning euphoric victory quickly turned into a desperate battle of survival for the Germans as they try to hold their positions that cut-off the Russian 62nd Army. Within days, the Germans were in dire situations by Aug.28th. The Russians...