Modern War #19, Sept-Oct 2015 It was the Chinese scholar-historian Wei Yuan, writing in the mid-19th century, who first formally identified his nation’s apparently inescapable cycles of “chaos and humiliation” (quru), followed by “rejuvenation” (fuxiang), followed by “wealth and power” (fuqiang), and then back to quru to start again. More recently, Queens...
By the winter of 1942, the Red Army of Workers and Peasants had contained the German attacks of the previous summer and fall. Now came the time for a whole series of counter-offensive of its own, designed to cut off and destroy the weakened Nazi armies. The northernmost of these would be Operation "Mars", aimed at the German Ninth Army around the city of...
In 1919, the governments of the victorious Allied powers met in Paris to discuss the post-war order of things. But while they were talking, history continued to move. As the rest of Russia descended into civil war, forces of the Red Army moved westward to exploit the power vacuum left by the retreating German armies. They were met by units of the new...
Note: the 2nd Edition is now available as Print-On-Demand at The Game Crafter: https://tinyurl.com/redmenace2 A PNP version (with VASSAL module) is also available at Wargame Vault: https://tinyurl.com/pnprm2 Number of Players: One Playing Time: 60-90 minutes Age: 12+ Complexity: 5 (out of 10) Solitaire Suitability: High Unit Scale: Groups, with some...
Red Parachutes - Soviet Airborne Assault Across the Dnepr, is a game based on the September 1943 Soviet Airborne operation which attempted to force a series of crossings of the Dnepr river near the city of Kanev. 1 22"x34" map, 980 counters, 16 pages of rules plus charts and tables. Scale is 2 km per hex, units are battalions and companies, each turn is...
Red Partisans (RP) is a two-player simulation of the brutal fighting that took place behind Army Group Center on the eastern front in 1942-44. The Partisan player, representing the Central Staff of the Partisan Movement, must destroy as many targets as possible, interdict the Axis armies’ lines of supply and control as much terrain as possible. The Axis...
Red Poppies Campaigns (RPC) enables players to game WWI battles from the perspective of battalion and regimental command posts. Players unleash opening bombardments and then maneuver infantry companies against machine gun fire to fight battles on historically accurate maps of actual battlefields. The streamlined system for fire and movement enables a rapid...
From the publisher: Red Poppies Campaigns: Volume 2 - Last Laurels at Limanowa (LLL), simulates Austria-Hungary's last independent victory against the Russian Empire in World War I. In November 1914, Russia's 3rd Army pressed on Krakow, the center of Austrian Poland, while the Russian 8th Army threatened to break through the Carpathian passes into Hungary....
Assault Artillery (AA) recounts the Battle of La Malmaison, 23-27 October 1917, in which the French employed their Artillerie Spéciale (tank force) and creeping barrage to capture Pinon, Vaudesson, and the coveted Chemin des Dames ridge. The French victory confirmed their recovery from the mutinies spawned by the disastrous Nivelle Offensive fought over...
Red Poppies simulates regimental-sized engagements from WWI with company-level units in 10 minute turns on maps scaled at 200 yards per hex. The game strives to illustrate the sort of command and control trade-offs that typified WWI battles. The units involved are companies and platoons, making this one of the few games to cover World War I small unit...