Winter Storm (a/k/a Winter Sturm) is an operational level game on the battles that were fought in Southern Russia from the time of the Soviet counter-offensive at Stalingrad in November of 1942, through February 1943 and the escape of Kleist's First Panzer Army from the Caucasus. Map sheets show the area from the Volga River to Taganrog on the Mius River....
Winter Thunder is a substantial revision of Autumn Mist, an earlier design Brian Train's. Among the many changes are: a newly researched order of battle, with revised counter values and reinforcement schedule; cleaned-up rules including a solitaire play system; and a drastically revised map with a different ground scale and treatment of terrain. Nicely...
"Brrr, it's cold..." - this was your first thought when you blinked and looked around. The very previous moment, as you remembered, you and your daughter were at home, drinking hot chocolate wearing your ugly Christmas sweaters, staring at the snowfall through the window, and waiting for the clock to hit midnight as usual on 30th November. But now...
Wintergewitter: The Doomed Attempt to Relieve Stalingrad, is the first in the Campaign Study Series. It depicts the attack by the German 57th Panzerekorps to open a corridor to the 6th Army, trapped in the Stalingrad Kessel. The fierce battle, that took place between December 12-23, 1942, was not a foregone conclusion. The fate of 20 German divisions hung...
A strategy game of control as winter draws in. As the forest prepares for its long stillness, two players guide opposing herds of deer through a woodland landscape of fading paths and closing space. This is not a game of conflict, but of positioning, and of gentle shifts that build pressure until nothing more can move. The Wintering is an elegant...
In Wisdom's Tales, players take the role of one of the Master Wisdom apprentices on a mission to find King's Marshmallow castle and retrieve the Crown. During the first half of the game, you and your team have to explore the Island by flipping tiles and resolving unpredicted events. Tiles, such as Caramel lake or Bombomb valley, will present some...
Wisp & Whiskers is a 2–4 player abstract strategy game where glowing wisps lure curious cats through a moonlit forest. Cats can’t resist chasing mysterious lights, especially the whimsical wisps drifting between the trees. Each turn, players place Wisp tokens throughout the forest, carefully positioning them to attract cats and set up scoring...
Wissembourg et Spicheren 1870: Premiers combats en Alsace-Lorraine (First battles in Alsace-Lorraine) is a wargame published in "Vae Victis" issue #138 which simulate two battles from the beginning of the 1870 French-Prussian War: the Battle of Wissembourg (or Battle of Weissenburg), on 4 August 1870, was the first of the Franco-Prussian War and the first...
Dark clouds linger over the City, a storm is looming... Meanwhile, a dark Witch hides deep within the City, hellbent on bringing it to its knees. But, all hope is not lost. A holy Inquisitor, attracted by the growing corruption, has secretly come to the City and decided to uproot the insidious evil. The storm will shortly break on the City and it will...
One of Ral Partha's introductory miniature games, Witch's Caldron is essentially a miniatures dungeon crawl, with adventurers (led by a wizard) trying to explore the witch's cave and escape with valuable treasure. The witch, with a variety of monstrous servants, opposes them. The adventurers may explore in multiple parties from three entrances. The game...
Witchcraft is a strategy game for two players with action taking place in ruined temple in a fantasy world. Each player leads an army which consists of ten wizards. Each of them can attack in different directions – eight directions are available – and some of them have special forms of magical attack. On his turn, a player decides which of his wizards will...
ウィッチズウィスク (Witches Whisk) is a game from Japan, with apprentice witches at a magic school flying on broomsticks over the sports field. The game can be played as a competitive game for a single winner by scoring victory points, or as a co-operative game trying to stop the escaping magical creatures. The main rules apply for both games and the co-op game can...