Theme: Your suit of 13 normal playing cards is an elite company of warriors with different combat strengths and movement rates. Objective/Game Play: From a random layout on a board space, your cards move and attack the enemy warriors, taking as many as you can as you try to capture their king or stronghold. You can stack your cards to increase their combat...
Based on the Fast Action Battle (FAB) Series, designer Rick Young has reimagined the best parts of FAB to introduce a new game system: Battle Command. The goal of the Battle Command system is to provide a way for various conflicts across different eras to be fought with minimal time wasted on setup and complex rules, making this both a great introductory...
Battle Cry! is a man-to-man wargame covering infantry battles on a tactical level between US Marine units and the Imperial Japanese army units. The scale is 10 metres from hexside to hexside and each counter represents a single infantry. Four maps are provided which simulates the typical terrain found in the Pacific War. The maps include a beach map...
"Battle for Basra" is a free introductory board-wargame, using GDW's First Battle game system, which was given away in the early 90s at conventions and in game shops. The game simulates a hypothetical attack in and around Basra, Iraq during the First Gulf War. One player commands the U.S. 24th Mechanized Division, the other player, the Iraqi Republican...
The Battle for Cassino: Assaulting the Gustav Line, 1944, is a two-player company/platoon level simulation of the third Allied attack on the German Gustav Line around Cassino which occurred in March, 1944. The game was first published in Strategy & Tactics magazine #71. The game makes extensive use of Artillery and, because Cassino Abbey was at the top of...
Battle for Germany game is small, it only takes about three to four hours to play for players of normal skill and luck. The game starts in December of 1944 with the Ardennes Offensive (a variant allows the German player to skip this and save his strength). As a two-player game, it is interesting in that each player plays both an Allied army (Western Allies...
Battle for Moscow is an Operational level relatively simple World War II Russian Front free board-wargame. The game simulates the German push toward Moscow in late 1941. The objective of the German faction is to capture and hold Moscow using blitzkrieg, while the Soviet faction tries to prevent that via strategic retreats. The basic game lasts 7 turns by...
What Happens Next is an Extension Variant for use with the Battle for Moscow FREE wargame by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW Games), which first appeared in "BattlePlan" Magazine, issue #7, by Thomas M. Kane. This expansion allows the Soviet Player a means of continuing the game to 'play out' the Soviet Winter Counter-Offensive. There is a *NEW* set of...
The Battle for Normandy is a game that represents the climactic campaign in Normandy from D-Day, 6 June 1944 to the first week of August 1944 at primarily battalion level. Numerous scenarios are included to play out various smaller battles in Normandy. It is intended for two players or player teams. The game uses a unique sequence of play and a system of...
Based on GMT's "The Battle for Normandy", the system moves to the 1943 invasion of Sicily by Allied forces. The game uses the base system from GMT's "The Battle for Normandy" with, of course, modification. The Axis player will have more possibilities with air power, and the Allied player has the opportunity to use surgical "end-run" invasions behind enemy...
Battle for Stalingrad is a battalion/company level simulation for two Players of the critical World War II battle for the renowned Russian City on the Volga River. The conflict raged for seven weeks in late 1942. Elements of fourteen German divisions of the Sixth Army and Fourth Panzer Army engaged dozens of divisions and brigades of the Soviet 62nd Army...
Battle Hymn is a solitaire game of combat, adventure, and heroism in the Pacific during World War II. Using the revolutionary programmed paragraph approach pioneered in the Ambush! game system, Battle Hymn gives you a squad of American Marines and challenges you to fight your way through a variety of Missions against a deceptive and ever-changing Japanese...