The Solomons Campaign of 1942 saw the American and Japanese navies engage in the most intense naval combat of World War II. For months the two sides fought over Guadalcanal, a miserable jungle-covered island with a vital airbase. Ironbottom Sound: A South Pacific Story continues the tale that we began in Second World War at Sea: South Pacific. You get 36...
Immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces began their “Strike South” against the American, British and Dutch colonies in South-East Asia. The combined American-British-Dutch-Australian fleet resisted as best they could, but would be crushed in February 1942 in the Battle of the Java Sea. Java Sea is a Second World War at Sea series game...
In the mid-1930’s, Thai military dictator Plaek Phibunsongkhram commissioned a modest naval building program. The Royal Thai Navy quickly received modern coast-defense ships, submarines and torpedo boats from Japanese and Italian shipyards. In 1940, Thailand challenged Vichy France over the provinces lost to French Indo-China in 1893, leading to a Thai...
Adolf Hitler launched his sneak attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941. The Red Army reeled back from the assault, losing thousands of tanks, guns and planes. On 21 August 1941 the first convoy loaded with equipment and weapons left Iceland for the Soviet Arctic port of Archangel. For the next two years, the Royal Navy would force through convoys to the...
“ In April 1942, the Japanese Combined Fleet offered Fourth Fleet the carrier Kaga (then completing repairs to the hull damage that kept her out of the Indian Ocean operations) for the upcoming Operation MO, the capture of Port Moresby. Fourth Fleet’s commander, Shigeyoshi Inoue, had been the pre-war head of naval aviation and recognized that one carrier...
In the years before the Second World War exploded, both the United States and the Empire of Japan expanded their fleets and air forces, planning to build even more new ships and planes. The outbreak of war scuttled many of these drawing-board vessels, but that hasn’t kept us from adding them to Second World War at Sea. The Emperor's Sword is a massive...
It is a game in which we pretend to be the gardeners who work in secret to present one of the pavilions of this beautiful garden located in Holland, the game is composed of several leaves that represent the 4 pavilions of this garden, the gardener leaves of each player and 2 boards that will indicate which flowers can be painted, the number of flowers to...
"Sedan 1940" is a battalion and lower-level Operational wargame focused on the decisive action at Sedan led by Rommel in 1940, encircling the majority of the French army by driving through the Ardennes and surprising a contingent of less than stellar French divisions. The system focuses on combined arms, combat effects can vary depending on the units in a...
The Sedan Campaign, 1870 (SC70), is a low-complexity, operational-level simulation of the battles that comprised the first month of active operations of the Franco-Prussian War. The game is intended for two players, one commanding the Prussian (actually, the North German Confederation) and the other French forces, though it can also easily be played...
Sedan: The Decisive Battle for France, May 1940, designed by Paul Youde, simulates the German Army’s offensive to reach and cross the imposing Meuse River, near Sedan, and the subsequent breakthrough to the west. Using basic combat mechanics, the game includes command control strictures to better simulate the differences between French and German...
Seeds of Empire is the seventeenth volume in Red Sash Games’ Lace Wars series of hex-and-counter war games. An EXPANSION (not a stand alone game), it continues from where the base game, Dreams of Empire, left off. Dreams of Empire was set in India during the 1730s and 1740s and featured the First Carnatic War between the British and French. Seeds of Empire...