INTRODUCTION: OUTPOST WAR is a solitaire game of the battles for the Hills and Ridges along the Main Line of Resistance (MLR) during the later stages of the Korean War (1951-1953). The player assumes the role of a commander of an Infantry Company during its grueling and miserable turn manning a Hilltop Outpost before they are relieved. As the Company...
[Insert from the back of the flat-pack] Outreach is a Grand Strategic simulation of intra-Galactic conflict. The scale of the game is genuinely huge. The 23" by 35" map depicts an area some 28,000 light years by 50,000 light years, including about one-third of the Galaxy. Each 19mm hex measures some 1200 light years across. Outreach is concerned with a...
Outremer is a man-to-man small scale combat game set in the time of the 3rd Crusade (1146). The game is both a game by itself or can be played as an expansion to Cry Havoc and/or Siege. As a stand-alone game it has 3 scenarios as well as a scenario generation system and 2 maps. There are rules covering a character advancement system that allows for a...
MONTGISARD is the name of the battle won by Baldwin IV, the Leper King of Jerusalem in 1177 against the Egyptian army of Saladin. This game is an extension for AGER SANGUINIS and introduces new knight Templar counters as well as famous characters like Reynald de Chatillon, Balian of Ibelin and the Leper King himself. The game also includes a double-map of...
Sometimes you don’t have to OUTRUN THE BEAR… you just have to outrun your friends. In Outrun the Bear you’ll play against up to five friends as you manage your cards in the race for your lives. Start at the campsite, and use action, reaction, and equipment cards to make it all the way to the parking lot and the safety of the car (while helping or...
"Over the Hump Airlift Campaign 1942-1945" is a simulation of the airlift to China in World War II. The simulation includes 58 pages of rules and procedures, scenarios, counter sheets, and map sections. There are 16 scenarios beginning with an introductory basic scenario involving one China National Aviation Corporation DC-3 type aircraft flying a...
The first of J.D. Webster's World War II air combat wargames. This game focuses on combat over Europe from 1943-1945. It's first game of the Fighting Wings series. The second game in the series, Achtung Spitfire, appeared in 1995 with upgraded the game mechanics and Whistling Death, the third entry in the series with further revisions, was published in...
A "quad" boxed game from Decision Games that also links its "game system" to two other paired WWI battles published in Strategy & Tactics magazine (Mons/Marne #186 and Lemberg/Verdun #198). The boxed game includes the following four battles: Brusilov Offensive, 1916 Riga, 1917 St. Mihiel, 1918 Damascus, 1918 These four battles are all unusual in that they...
Two extra games from the Over the Top! Quad system that were published in Strategy & Tactics magazine #186, Jul/Aug 1997. 1 turn = 1/2 day, 1 hex = 2 miles. Mons, 23-27 August 1914 : "As the right wing of the German Army swept through Belgium in the opening days of the World War, the British landed the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the continent....