(from Decision games website:) Pavia was the climactic clash of the Italian Wars, a decades-long struggle between Valois France and Habsburg Spain for control of Italy. Both sides have nascent pike-and-shot armies, the French still relying upon feudal knights, and the Spanish increasingly dependent on new individual firearms. Both sides also relied on...
This is the sixth game in the Pocket Battle Games series from LPS, Inc. This promotional Pocket Battle wargame is one of four games that cover the American's fight against KG Peiper and other German forces during the Battle of the Bulge. They can be played separately or linked together for a "grand campaign" It is printed on a single postcard-sized piece...
From the Introduction: Players can link all four of the Peiper Pocket Battle Games to form The Peiper Dream and play a "Grand" (using the term very loosely here!) Campaign that simulates the entire series of battles with KG Peiper during the Ardennes Offensive. The Campaign Game will also require the use of one six-sided die (not included) to adjudicate...
PBI is a simple board-wargame of tactical warfare in World War I and World War II. There are four scenarios: August 1914, 1917 assault on a trench line, 1940 attack on French position, and Pacific jungle warfare. "Each counter represents one man. The time scale, while not exact, represents approximately one minute. There is no exact ground scale. The...
A Union invasion of northern Arkansas ground to a halt in early 1862 due to logistical difficulties. The alarmed Confederates sent Earl Van Dorn to coordinate the fractious Southern forces to repel the Yankee invaders. Van Dorn, aggressive but careless, launched a quick offensive that nearly trapped Sam Curtis’ Union Army of the Southwest, until Curtis...
Pea Ridge recreates the battle of the same name during the American Civil War in the West, using the Great Battles of the American Civil War system based on the award-winning, monster game Terrible Swift Sword. Pea Ridge is a meeting engagement of the battle on March 7-8, 1862 between CSA forces under General Earl Van Dorn and the Union troops commanded by...
This small-publisher game comes with loads of wooden hex-shaped tiles, a hex board, and three pawns. The object of the game is to move your pawn from one corner of the hex board to the opposite corner. However, instead of taking your move, you can place a hex tile on the board. These are used to block your opponent, because while your pawn can always go...
"Peaks of the Caucasus" — available in World at War #61, the Summer 2018 issue — simulates the German offensive in the southern Soviet Union in 1942 and the ensuing Soviet Counteroffensive. The German objective was initially the Caucasus oilfields, but the campaign turned into a struggle for the city of Stalingrad on the Volga. The game uses a variant of...
Pearl Docks is a maritime board game in which the finest Captains of the Kingdom of Thorim, acting on the orders of a dying ruler, explore an archipelago in search of Royal Pearls, symbols of power. Over the course of the game they discover new lands, trade resources, explore or plunder islands in search of treasure, and clash with pirates as well as with...
As listed on FunAgain.com: Pearl Fisher is an elegant synergy of abstract strategy and memory games. The "pearls" are glass marbles. Move pearls and cover them with shells. Can you uncover the right color of pearl? Two game boards in one -- square grid on one side, a hex grid on the flip side. Beautifully handcrafted 11½-inch boards are laser-engraved....
"Pearl Harbor: The War Against Japan, 1941-1945" "A board-wargame simulation of the Pacific and Asian Theaters of World War II, at the strategic level. Simulated are the major political, military, and economic events of the war from 1941 through 1945, as Japan fought the United States for mastery of East Asia and the Pacific. Two scenarios and a campaign...