A solo tactical game about the battles and struggles that the 1st Airborne division faced during the first few days of the drops and landings around the Arnhem/Oosterbeek area. You play as the British in this chit pull, paragraph driven game, the enemy may not be placed on the map until you spot them, or they spot you. Before the game begins there are...
Our God Was My Shield is the first game in John Theissen's American Civil War Operational Series (ACWOS). This series of streamlined card-assisted operational sandboxes builds on Mr. Theissen's work in titles such as More Aggressive Attitudes, Objective Shreveport, and Hood's Last Gamble. Those games had slightly different and not entirely compatible...
Our Royal Bones recreates the 1214 Battle of the Bouvines using the simple and playable Shields & Swords system. France's King Phillip II Augustus was up against a coalition of German, English, Flemish, and more. Phillip nimbly avoided battle until he could find ideal ground for his cavalry. The result was a humiliating defeat for the coalition that led to...
There are two versions of Oust. One is played on a hex grid, and the other is played with a Go set. Players take turns adding their stones to the board. When you form a (horizontal or vertical in the square grid version) connection between your newly added stone and one or more of your on-board stones, you form a larger group. You can only make such a move...
The Battle of Upper Tajuña, March-April 1938. With the Aragón Front breached in early March 1938 and Franco's army in their way to split the Spanish Republic in two, several attempts were made to weaken the breakthrough by launching diversionary attacks at other fronts. The only one to achieve some success was IV Corps attack at the Upper Tajuña river; but...
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...