From Bruno Faldetti's Review: The name sounds like a Japanese war cry, and the game looks a bit like Go. With its large square box and its flat black box, Ooyoo could have been one of these strange games that we used to look with eagerness and curiosity in the Impensé Radical bookshop, in Paris, in the late seventies and early eighties. Yes, I know I'm...
Description from the publisher: The Open Road is the first bicycle touring board game. It simulates all aspects of cross-country travel with two tires on the ground. Precious energy and money determine your strategy as you make your way along America. With so many coast-to-coast route combinations, and a myriad of variables to help or hinder your success...
The Open Word Game consists of several different games based around the idea of moving lettered pieces on an 8x8 board to form rules. There are 64 pieces in the set: two copies of each consonant and four of each vowel (including Y). (Since the Russian alphabet has 33 letters, in the original Russian version there are two of each letter except Ъ and Ь of...
Operation Bøllebank is a solitaire wargame that depicts the events in Bosnia during the night between 29th and 30th April 1994, when a UN armored task force consisting of tanks and APCs from DANSQN2 engaged Bosnian-Serb forces around the town of Kalesija, near the border between Bosnia and Serbia. The player will control the UN forces, while the game...
This is the twelfth game in the Pocket Battle Games series from LPS, Inc. From Wikipedia: The Channel Dash, (codenamed Operation Cerberus by the Germans), was a major naval engagement during World War II in which a German Kriegsmarine squadron consisting of both Scharnhorst class battleships, and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen along with escorts, ran a British...
Operation Nordwind 1945 is an introductory level, card-assisted game depicting Germany’s last offensive in the west from December 31, 1944 – January 20, 1945. The game concentrates on the fighting that took place in the mountainous, heavily-forested terrain of the Alsace region of France. Historically, the German offensive failed in its attempt to secure...
“Time is now against Iran.” –Chairman and de facto commander-in-chief, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s comment following Operation Praying Mantis. Following the destruction of Iran Air Flight 655 by the US, fully loaded with pilgrims on their way to Mecca for the Haj, the Iranian military vowed revenge against the “Great Satan”. With Grand Ayatollah Khomeni...
Operation RI is a print and play wargame of moderate complexity for one or two players, simulating the Japanese overland advance on Port Moresby in 1942 and the subsequent Allied counter-offensive. Components (need to be printed, the counters require assembly): Rulebook Charts and tables Set up cards 2 x maps (recommended print size 11" x 17" each) 1 x...
"Operation Rösselsprung" is an anti-partisan operation launched by German forces against the Yugoslav resistance between May 25 and June 3, 1944. This combined operation between the air and ground forces aims to seize - dead or alive - the chief of the resistance Josip Broz known as "Tito", whose hiding place was located in the village of Drvar in Bosnia...