A few months [before June 2021,] we announced that we would be discontinuing both 1968 & 1987. These games were designed when I first started the company and frankly, I was in a rush to put out a catalog. Unfortunately I don't think either of these games are up to the quality I want to maintain with CSL so both will no longer be available on our catalog....
Description from the designer: You are an American F-4 pilot shot down behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War. Wounded and disoriented, you must make your way to safety before the North Vietnamese Army captures you. (Based on a true story.) "1972: The Lost Phantom" is a free print-and-play solitaire, map-making, survival game focused on a realistic...
This installment of the Procedural Combat Series sees a return to historical conflict in one of the cold war’s most iconic campaigns. A well trained, well armed, but unprepared Israel must defend herself against a multinational coalition lead by Egypt and Syria that is bent on her destruction. 1973 highlights the highly mobile nature of this campaign, and...
"The waters of the Barents Sea are constantly violated by nuclear armed US submarines and carriers. Nordic Countries must realize that their tacit consent plunges them into the strategic balance between United States and the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics." Public Declaration of State Committee on the State of Emergency in the U.S.S.R. Moscow July...
“Iran active intervention into the sphere of relations between the Soviet Union and other socialist countries, its reiterated attempts to incite unrest in the Caucasian regions, its fanatical refusal to put an end to the prolonged conflict with Iraq, leave the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics no other choice than the use of military force.” Public...
"The increasing destabilization of the political and economic situation in the Soviet Union is undercutting our positions in the world. The pride and honor of the Soviet people must be restored in full." Public Declaration of State Committee for the State of Emergency in the U.S.S.R., June 11, 1985 1985: Under an Iron Sky is the spiritual successor of The...
A few months [before June 2021,] we announced that we would be discontinuing both 1968 & 1987. These games were designed when I first started the company and frankly, I was in a rush to put out a catalog. Unfortunately I don't think either of these games are up to the quality I want to maintain with CSL so both will no longer be available on our catalog....
1995 is the third iteration of our Procedural Combat Series and it examines a cold war gone hot during the Yugoslavian wars of succession. The combined might of a Serb dominated JNA and a weakened but still potent Russia move on the smaller republics in an attempt to establish A Serb dominated Yugoslavia giving Russia a foothold in NATO’s backyard. PCS is...
1st Alamein is my (Lou Coatney's) 1997-designed free, print-and-play 2-player game about the opening battle for Alamein, in July 1942, which was Rommel's best chance to break through and take naval base Alexandria, Cairo, and the Suez. It is the first part of my Battles for Alamein game set, and it is an ideal introductory game for the hex-and-counter game...
1st El Alamein is a simplified simulation of the mid 1942 battle in the desert of Egypt that marks the high tide of the Afrika Korps in the desert. Although the later battles of Alam Halfa and especially 2nd El Alemein are more famous, it was the Commonwealth’s survival in this July battle that stopped the Afrika Korps and saved Egypt. Advanced and...
1st Blitzkrieg simulates the course of the military operations in Central Europe at beginning of the World War II, where the new doctrine of Blitzkrieg, based on armored and air forces was used by the aggressor to crush the defender within weeks rather than months. Game scale: Units are generally Divisions and Brigades. Each Turn represents 4 days. Each...