Wargame of the Greek Civil War, 1947-49. One of the few times a Communist-inspired insurgency was beaten by a Western government. Uses a development of game system used in several other insurgency situations (Algeria, Tupamaro and Shining Path). Features include government political interference in how the Army is deployed and supplied, refugees, Balkan...
(from MMP's webpage:) Angola recreates a brief portion of the violent, decades-long Angolan civil war that began in the 1970s with the fall of a colonial power and dragged its bloody way into the 21st century thanks in part to cold war politics. Angola is a multi-player game in which players control the various Soviet- and US-backed factions that vied for...
アニマノレース (Anima-no-race) is a game from Japan with animals racing to survive. Each player has a squirrel, a rabbit and a bear to move, and each animal needs its own food (nuts, carrots, fish). Instead of rolling dice, all players choose a tile to show their move, and after revealing players decide which of their three animals to move. The game is designed...
Microgame #14 in the Metagaming Microgames series. This is actually 2 games in one: One world is the game of godly conflict for those who've dreamed secretly of divine power. Each player is a god who must contend with a pretentious challenger. Your "children" wage the struggle in their aspects of Blade, Stone, and Fog. Over the Singing Grasses, Runelines...
Antietam 1862 is Volume I in Worthington Publishings new Civil War Brigade Battle Series. Designed to be a series where you can fight a battle in an evening. Antietam 1862 allows gamers to refight the pivotal battle in Maryland that was the bloodiest day in American history. More than 22,000 were killed, wounded, or missing. Outnumbered at over 2 to 1, can...
Blue & Gray – 4 civil war battles where players maneuver colorful card board counters on three color maps of the actual battle sites. A hexagonal grid superimposed upon each map regulates the deployment, movement, and battle engagement of each unit. The colorful counters represent the infantry, cavalry, and artillery units that actually fought at each...
SPI published soapbox size wargame consisting of 9 copies of Antietam and 9 copies of Cemetery Hill both games from their Blue & Gray series. There is an additional teachers instruction booklet, 2 historical briefings booklets, two test questions booklets and one Bulletin board poster to promote the class activity, the entire collection can be used for...
John Theissen’s streamlined approach to operational warfare in the nineteenth century in games such as Hood’s Last Gamble and Campaign of Nations has won him a number of admirers. Now he turns his attention to the last war of the Roman Republic, to the marching of Legions and the sailing of fleets, to the rise of Augustus and the fall of Marc Antony and...
(from the 4th edition back box and user's description:) Few games have been kept up to date as much as ANZIO has. Revised and revised again, a good game has gotten better and better. Played on a 44" X 14~ mapboard of Italy, the game recreates the Allied amphibious Invasions and campaigns to secure the peninsula leading to the heart of Europe. The Allies...
"The Last Stand: Italy, April '45" is an operational wargame about the last month of World War II in Italy. One player is the German with some Fascist allies trying to delay allied advance toward the Po river. The other player has the composite forces of the Allies (American, British, Commonwealth, Polish, Jewish, Brazilian and Italian) with the objective...
(From Box) "Now you can re-fight the battles that determined the fate of nations. Victories that strike like lightning, if you can win them--like the victories of Israeli arms in 1956 and 1967. Battles that were mammoth struggles for crossroads and passes and battles that were pinprick raids. The military forces of Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and Syria are...
Aragon 1938 (Aragón ’38) is a two player wargame simulating the Nationalist Spring 1938 offensive in Eastern Aragon, Valencia and Catalonia, from March to May 1938. Historically, the Nationalist armies (reinforced by an Italian motorized corps and German air units) inflicted a major defeat to the Ejército Popular de la República (EPR), reaching the...