It is August 31, 1940. For several weeks now, an air battle between Great Britain and the Third Reich has been in progress. This period will go down in history as the Battle of Britain. A message arrives at the operations room of the 11 Fighter Group command that numerous formations of German aircraft are flying in the direction of the capital. Yesterday...
In August 1995, the whole world was engulfed in war for the third time. There were several causes, but at the end of the day, it was simply a matter of the Eastern powers tipping the scales to correct the "balance of power" that had begun to crumble. But with tanks and missiles in both hands. The focus of the fighting was in Central Europe, the economic...
The fifth installment in Victory Games (I) popular Fleet Series, 3rd Fleet is actually three games in one. One games deals with the North Pacific, another with the volatile Caribbean region, and the third with the eastern Atlantic. In all three games, both players control surface ships, submarines, and aircraft. Each unit is carefully evaluated in ten...
From the Expansion: "One of 3rd FLEET's limitations as a game is a shortage of scenarios. Other tactical/operational wargames overcome such a shortcoming by offering a system for designing your own(DYO) scenarios. But, for that one needs some manner in which to compare the units of the game. The following is an approximate valuation for each unit in 3rd...
After massing the V, X, X12 and XV Legions; as well as auxiliaries throughout the entire Roman World at Megiddo, will you as General Titus then proceed south and successfully siege Jerusalem in AD70? Will Israeli infighting, starvation and desertion aid your campaign? Will battering rams and catapults be successfully deployed. This is a classic hex wargame...
40th Panzer Korps is a company/battalion level simulation of the battles in the vicinity of the old Napoleonic battle ground of Borodino just west of Mozhaysk. The players control the 40th Panzer Korps and elements of the Soviet’s 5th Army. The game uses the 48th Panzer Korps system, which emphasizes the special abilities of the various arms, armour...
48th PanzerKorps: Battles on the River Chir, is a battalion/regiment-level simulation of the battles on the Chir River, December 7-12, 1942. Players control the Soviet 5th Tank Army and the German 48th Panzer Korps. The game emphasizes the special abilities of armor, infantry, and weapons units. The German player must use his small number of powerful...
The Violent Schoolmaster Tactical Series (VSTS) is a new take on combat from the prehistoric to the late 16th century. This Introduction Module allows players to affordably experiment with VSTS and allows players to re-fight one of military history, along with western civilization’s most decisive moment, the battle of Marathon in 490 BC. Emperor Darius I...
"4th Reich: Puremen vs. the Mutants for Control of the World" is a somewhat obscure wargame by Task Force Games based on (albeit without attribution) the SF-novel "The Iron Dream" by the Jewish author Norman Spinrad. This very controversial novel describes a parallel world in which Hitler wasn't successful with his "Kampf" in Germany and became a...