This game concerns one of the last battles of World War 2. The invasion of the Southern Sakhalin and the Kuriles by the Soviet Union. This was done in conjunction with the invasion of Japanese held Manchuria and Korea in the wake of the atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Soviets surprisingly had a hard time in taking the Sakhalins and the Kuriles...
The battle of Salamanca is a Napoleonic operational game that simulates the historical confrontation between a French Army (known as the Army of Portugal) commanded by Marshal Marmont and an Allied Army, commanded by Viscount Wellington of Talavera, and composed of British, Portuguese and Spanish Troops. The Battleground lay a few miles south east of the...
Publisher's description: Salamanca: Marmont vs Wellington covers the turning point of the 1812 campaign on the Spanish Peninsula, where Wellington showed he was not just a skilled defender, but could also deliver a decisive attack. It uses the Napoleon's Later Campaigns system, for a fast, low to moderate complexity, brigade-level game of Napoleonic...
(from LPD's website:) Wellington defeats Marmont in a maneuver battle that tests each player's imagination. Salamanca stretches the BNE system nearly to its limit with hidden deployment, leader orders and initiative and a complex set of victory conditions. Is your opponent trying to beat you on the battlefield, cut you off from your line of communications...
This is a monster DTP wargame. It has individual ships for the whole battle and separate counters for the Marines on board (some 2,300 counters in total) and 28 maps, which come out at about 8 by 4 feet. Victory is determined when one side's fleets have all broken. This involves a dice roll for each fleet each turn matched to how many triremes they have...
As the battle of Chancellorsville raged, a Union corps was dispatched to hit the vulnerable Confederate army from behind. The flanking column was delayed by a single Confederate brigade at Salem Church. The battle grew as Confederate arrived first to firm up the front, then to turn the tables on the Federals. The flankers became flanked, then had to fight...
A game of the World War Two amphibious invasion of Italy September 8/9, 1943. Map sheet is black and white showing the part of Italy surrounding the Gulf of Salerno where the Allied Armies invaded the night of 8/9 September 1943. Games uses zones of control and has 119 yellow (Allies) and 119 red (German, Italians) die cut unit counters. Total counters...
The Salient of Fire. Kursk - 1943 is about the the Manstein's offensive on the southern flank of the Kursk Bulge. The main task of the German player is to breakthrough three Soviet heavily fortified defensive lines near Oboyan. The Soviet player (the General Vatutin’s Voronezh Front) has to stop the elite German spearheads to prevent capturing Oboyan and...
Every year, thousands of salmon are compelled to leave the ocean and return to the river of their birth. This perilous journey can span hundreds of miles and is fraught with danger. Strong rapids, waterfalls, hungry bears, and eagles all await the salmon on their quest to spawn. Only the most fit will complete the salmon run! Salmon Run is a fast-paced...