"If we are to win the war, we must win the first battle. The battle must be fought with no retreats, every objective must be taken—no matter the cost in casualties. We must succeed or die.” –General Israel Tal’s admonition to his officers before crossing the boundary into the Sinai. Succeed or Die is a low complexity Operational level wargame simulation of...
It’s double-overtime in the most important game of the season. You’re trailing the opposing team by 3 points. Every single man on your squad is exhausted, frustrated, and nursing some kind of injury. Now you’ve received the ball at your 20 and the last series has begun. Whether by ground or air, you need to move your squad 80 yards downfield and infiltrate...
SuDoku Hex! is a print-and-play game offered by Reiner Knizia. This is a game with a board consisting of seven sets of size seven hexes on which tiles numbered 1-7 are randomly place on each set. Then players take turns placing numbered tiles onto the board with the restriction that no repeating digits are allowed in any direction, like a sudoku puzzle....
The Suez Canal was essential to British strategic communications and trade in the Great War, as well as being an important political symbol. In August of 1916, the Ottoman Empire sent an expeditionary force, which included contingents of Germans and Austro-Hungarians, against the canal. While the British were expecting an attack, the Ottomans gained...
Suez '73: The Battle of Chinese Farm: October 15-22, 1973, is a game about the battle that took place the Egyptian Army and the Israel Defense Forces, as part of the Yom Kippur War. It was fought in the Sinai Peninsula, north of the Great Bitter Lake and just east of the Suez Canal, near an Egyptian agricultural research station. The farm was using...
Suleiman the Magnificent is a game covering the massive battle on August 29th, 1526 between the Ottoman Empire and the army of the Kingdom of Hungary that eventually resulted in the fall of the latter kingdom and the disappearance of Hungary as an independent country for 400 years. The Hungarians numbered around 35,000 (including artillerist), the...
Designed by veteran designer Brian Train, Summer Lightning is an operational simulation of the invasion of Poland by German, Slovakian and Soviet forces in September-October 1939. The campaign was a brief, bloody, and confusing affair fought between two armies which were considered equals by many in the world. Despite the interesting campaign, there aren’t...
Summer Storm: The Battle of Gettysburg is a tactical and operational-level game of the battle of Gettysburg. The game's focus is on morale and command; the operational game is a double-blind recreation of the movements leading up to the battle, the results of which are transferred to the tactical maps. The game includes a tactical map area of 51x44", two...
The Battle of the Yellow Breeches/Dillsburg, July 3,1863 - An Expansion module for Summer Storm: The Battle of Gettysburg. The body hung limply from the roadside apple tree, as General Buford and his staff rode by. "Well, gentlemen," Buford noted grimly," I guess that's one more report that General Lee will have to do without!" The Gettysburg Campaign...
This is a Perry Moore DTP wargame on the battle of Tay Ninh during the Vietnam war August 1968. Two divisions of VC and NVA troops numbering a total of 15,000 men tried to seize the city of Tay Ninh during the Tet Offensive of 1968, defending the city was 1st brigade of the 25th division, 23rd artillery group, 34th armor battalion and several air and...
Summonaria is a game of tactical combat and resource management that pits players and their magical armies against each other as they try to seize control of five island strongholds. On the island are five magic towers that have drawn the interest of the most powerful Master Summoners in the world. They each want to fight for control of the towers and the...