Crossing the Rubicon is an expansion to John Theissen’s Beware the Ides of March. This scenario covers Caesar’s civil wars. Additional unit counters are provided, as well as tiles to adapt the map for this specific topic. “Beware”, taking place after these wars and Caesar’s assassination, saw both sides starting with very low prestige, resulting in a great...
"Birth of a Nation" first published in The Wargamer Magazine (#18) Jan-Feb 1982, is a two-player company level wargame simulation of the battle of Freeman's Farm (Saratoga), Sept. 19, 1777. Points are awarded to the British player for Victory point hexes occupied and for un-demoralized units. The number of points gained determines the level of victory for...
Bitter Woods 3rd Edition was published and sold briefly in 2002 as a professional DTP effort by designer Randy Heller. Only 200 copies were sold before a contract to publish a Deluxe L2 Design Group version stopped further sales, making this one of the more desirable acquisitions among game collectors. The game includes a color booklet and full color 1/2"...
Bitter Woods is a mid-complexity wargame on the last great German offensive in Dec 1944, commonly known as the "Battle of the Bulge". The map depicts the area of operations, the Ardennes area at the borders of Germany, France, Belgium, and Luxemburg. Prominent features like roads, rivers and cities are depicted. A hexagonal grid is superimposed over the...
Blitzkrieg is one of Avalon Hill's earlier releases, and is a classic hex and counter board game. The game is a fictional representation of the breakout of World War II. Five minor countries become engulfed in a tremendous conflict for territory waged by Great Blue and Big Red, the major antagonists. Units represented are infantry, airborne, rangers...
Blitzkrieg 1939: Hoepner (or Blitzkrieg 1939 II) is the second game in the "Blitzkrieg 1939" mini-series. It simulates battles during the German invasion of Poland, September, 1939, between Polish defenders and the German XVI Corps commanded by Erich Hoepner. The following battles are included: Mokra Piotrków Trybunalski Tomaszów Mazowiecki Sochaczew...
(from the rulebook:) Blitzkrieg 1940 is a two-player simulation of the decisive first three weeks of the campaign fought across the Low Countries and northeastern France during May of that year. The Allied player, primarily on the defensive, controls French, British, Belgian and Dutch forces, and is opposed by the invading German player, who commands units...
(from the back of the box:) Blitzkrieg in the South is the first in the East Front Battles series, a series which will cover the whole of the Russo-German front in World War II. Ground Scale is 5 miles to the hex, turns represent 2 days of real time, units represent division, brigades, regiments, or battalions. The game covers the Axis assault on the...
"Blitzkrieg vs. Russia, 1941" *attempts* for the Barbarossa Campaign, to be what Frank Chadwick's classic little Battle for Moscow, 1st edition is for that battle: a basic, relatively fast and simple, very conventional hex-and-counter introductory board wargame. It is the same scale - 13 hexes from Warsaw to Moscow - as classic old SPI Barbarossa and might...