H.J.R. Murray's classic work on the history of chess includes chess variants from around the world and throughout history. Originally published in 1913, it was recently reprinted and is now available again. Contains history, development and the rules of nearly every Chess variant prior to 1900. A Classic! Republished by Oxford University Press (available...
Quidditch is played by children on broomsticks in the back apple orchard, by teams of students at wizarding schools, and by professional athletes whose exploits are followed avidly al over the world. Amazing, right? Well, now anyone (even Muggles!) can play Quidditch at home with History of Quidditch - The Miniatures Game, which is a card and miniatures...
Planned to be a nine-part series of games covering all of WWII based on the B.H. Liddell Hart book of the same name. This is a grand strategic hex and counter turn-based WWII wargame. Hexes are 175km, a turn is one month. Combat is by dice on CRT and based on both attack/defense ratings and type of attack/defense. This was Part 1: Hitler Turns Against...
A 2 Player abstraction of a Ship Battling game using a standard 52 Poker Card Deck of Cards. Poker Hands are resolved as 3-Card Poker. Playable with Optional Rules which bring the game to a whole nother level! Played on a 3x3 Map grid, Players, otherwise known as Captains, place Cards down as Ships, called Card Ships, and use combinations of Poker Hands as...
"Hitler's Counterstroke in France" is a battalion-level simulation of "Operation Liege", the German counter-attack around Mortain in Normandy in August 1944, which was designed to cut off the US 3rd Army. The game features ranged artillery fire, German command radius, Allied roadblocks, fortified positions, Allied air strikes, German anti-aircraft units...
Hitler's Last Gamble is an intermediate/advanced game for two players that includes unique, new information discovered by Designer, Danny 'Mr. Bulge' Parker. In December of 1944. six months after the Allied invasion of France. the total defeat of Nazi Germany seemed inevitable. On both the Eastern and Western fronts the Allies were on German soil. It...
After being cut off and isolated in mid-February 1945, the German garrison at Breslau, some 50,000 men, defied all odds holding onto the city for almost a week AFTER Berlin fell! Hitler had ordered the city be held at all costs, believing Soviet forces tied up there were thus not taking part in any assault on Berlin. The defending garrison finally...
The game examines the war in Europe at several levels. Operation Barbarossa concentrates on the great ground struggle waged for four long years between Stalingrad and Berlin. The Fall of Germany begins at the eve of the great amphibious invasion of France and expands the war into the West. The War for Europe completes the picture with an examination of the...
Against the Odds broke new ground with the 2010 Annual. Four Roads to Moscow included four different, complete games from four top designers, each one taking their own approach to cover Barbarossa. There have been “quad games” before, but never like this. While many people are thrilled to get all four, we figured a few folks might have a favored designer...
When Barbarossa begins, the world will hold its breath! - A. Hitler So, why did Barbarossa fail? The ATO Annual edition for 2010 includes four game modules in one package. Four veteran designers combine in a unique offering from Against the Odds... and each have drawn some startling conclusions about what really happened, modeling with four very different...
Hive Ultimate is the very same wonderful game but now includes all the Expansions: Ladybug & Mosquito and Pillbug. This edition also includes a Strategy Tips booklet. Everything in one zipper bag, take it anywhere and play. The Pocket version is available as well. Competitive Hive players consider Hive PLM (Hive with Pillbug, Ladybyg and Mosquito) the...