Political and military wargame set in a fantasy world. The players assume the roles of provincial kings set on conquest and consolidation. Two original editions of this appeared, one in Ares Magazine #3 and one in an SPI boxed edition. A revised edition was published 2001 by Jolly Roger Games. from the Basic Description section of the rulebook: "Barbarian...
Brief as in both speed of play and File or Case or ... Dossier. :) VERY small footprint Barbarossa game. Like Philip Sabin's classic Eastern Front, only **3** hexes from Warsaw to Moscow, although a different configuration of those. 4 2-month turns, basic hex and counter dice-resolved combat odds system. But lots of combat options including Pressed Attack...
"Barbarossa: Game of the Russo-German War 1941-45" On 22 June 1941, the German Wehrmacht invaded Soviet Russia in an operation code-named Barbarossa. Barbarossa is a Strategic level, two-player, Corps-level board wargame simulation of the four year struggle of the East Front War in the Soviet Union. The Axis Player takes the role of the German High Command...
On June 22, 1941, before dawn, German tanks and guns began firing across the Russian border. It was the beginning of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, one of the most brutal campaigns in the history of warfare. Four years later, the victorious Red Army has suffered a loss of seven million lives. The Barbarossa campaign included some of the greatest episodes...
"Basic Training is played on a small hex-based map that represents a section of New Guinea. The playing pieces represent companies of Australian Army and Japanese Army soldiers. Each player moves and attacks with his units, in turn, in an attempt to capture (or prevent from being captured) the Village hexes shown on the map. The Japanese player is...
Basileus II is the sixth module of the game system "À la Charge !". It uses the special characteristics of Basileus: Byzance Xe-XIe S., such as Unseizable, and the particularly formidable units, the Byzantine cataphracts. With a standard hex & counter "I go - You go" system, players play certain number of turns, in each of which there are movement & combat...
Bastogne ...and the Battle of the Ardennes December, 1944 was first released in Strategy & Tactics magazine #20 (December 1969) along with Anzio Beachhead. It was also available in SPI's "white-box" and "Flat Pack" lines. This was Dunnigan's first (of several) Battle of the Bulge games. Per Dunnigan: "Bastogne was an attempt to do the Bulge with max...
Battle of the Bulge, December, 1944 Bastogne or Bust! recreates the Battle of the Bulge at the operational level of scale. The units represent companies, battalions, and regiments that either participated in the battle or were available for committment by their respective commanders. Althought the game is moderate in complexity, it can be easily taught to...
"The Siege of Bastogne is a battalion level simulation of the battles that took place in December 1944 near the town of Bastogne in southern Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge (the German Ardennes Offensive). The battle was divided into two distinct phases, and a scenario is provided that covers each phase as a self-contained game. Also included is a...
"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...
A simulation of the Soviet offensive against Finland in the summer of 1944. The Soviet player must defeat Finland as soon as possible within a limited timeframe so that the Red Army can return to the decisive direction of the war, the Bagration offensive in June-July 1944. Historically, the Soviets achieved a marginal victory—the Finnish had to withdraw...