The players have to get their merchant ships from their home harbor to the destination harbor of the same color and back again. The war ships are used to attack enemy ships and defend their own ships. In the center of the game board is a island with two safe neutral harbors. The player harbors are guarded by coast artillery. Movement is determined by a...
Wing Leader is an exciting new game system of large scale aerial combat in World War II. Based on a unique side-scrolling view, in which altitude is clearly visible, players can recreate the great air battles of the war. This first volume, Wing Leader: Victories 1940-1942, includes scenarios for the Battle of Britain, Malta, Coral Sea, Midway, North...
The Winged Boot was the unofficial award given to British and later adopted by American airmen who “flew out” and “walked back” so they could continue their duty. Although not official, airmen would have their badges custom made in London and worn concealed under the lapels of their uniforms. This was an exclusive club that nobody signed up for. You could...
Fighting Wings game system (Volume 4) goes to the Russian front, modeling aircraft and situations from the German invasion of Russia in the Summer of 1941 to the fall of Berlin in 1945. 48 new aircraft ADCs (very few duplicates from previous games and if so these are updated with better information), two double sided maps for four unique playing surfaces...
Wings Over France is a solitaire WWI wargame, simulating the day-to-day operations of a RFC Squadron during the month of April 1917, known as "Bloody April" because of the heavy losses suffered by the allied air force. The game puts the player in control of 1 to 3 RFC Flights based in Arras, France. The objective is to sweep the skies clear of Huns in...
Printed pages include tournament rules (Biting Hopping rules) for the Kookaburra Game set (10x10 gameboard), for 4 players; and 2 new games for 2 players called RUNNING SIX --- "Running Six on 30" is played on a 10x7 gameboard (or modified Kookaburra Game board), and both players have an extra kangaroo. "Running Six on 27" is played on an 8x8 gameboard (or...
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...