The second (and last) of Fractal Dimensions' line of "Gamelets" - comic-book sized games inspired by the microgames of the 1980s. Escape From Dinosaur Island! involves U.S. Marines in the South Pacific, circa 1944, who find themselves on an island filled with prehistoric beasts. The game uses two mapsheets. One is a hex-grid encounter map showing an...
from GMT website: More than thirteen years of design and development have gone into the making of Europe Engulfed (EE), which is GMT Games' first offering to the block-game enthusiast. It covers the entirety of World War II in Europe from September 1939 to the end of 1945. Europe Engulfed plays fast with its focus on playability and making players feel the...
Sub-title is "Napolean's Winter Battle, 1807". Components consist of the following: a Large, Thin, Colorful BOX; RULES Booklet; a 6-Sided-DIE; a TURN Record/RUSSIAN Command/DEMORALIZATION Chart; a UNIT ID Chart with REINFORCEMENT/Sequence of Play/Reorganization/Summary of Morale Adjustments on other side; a TERRAIN Chart with Combat Results/Bombardment...
Fall of Berlin, 16 April - 2 May 1945, The End of the Thousand Year Reich is the second game in Michael Taylor's Russian Front Series. It is an operational-scale game covering from 16 April to 2 May 1945 in the area around Berlin: from the River Oder, Frankfurt an der Oder and Seelow in the east, and from Torgau and the River Elbe in the south-west...
Description from the publisher: From award-winning designer Ted S. Raicer, The Fall of the Third Reich covers the dramatic last two years of WWII in Europe, as the Western Allies and the Soviet Union fight against fierce German resistance to bring down the Thousand-Year Reich. The time is July, 1943. From the beaches of Sicily to the plains of central...
"The Fall of Tobruk" is a wargame simulation of Rommel's May- June 1942 attack on the Allies Gazala - Bir Hacheim line. Units range from company to battalion to regiment and are rated for Anti-tank, Combat and Movement with artillery units having additional ratings for Artillery strength and Range. Update: The game was re-published by Cool Stuff Unlimited...
"Fatal Alliances: The Great War 1914-1918" is a World War I version of World in Flames. Like its predecessor, Fatal Alliances is all encompassing and represents every theater and aspect of the First World War. Fatal Alliances expands upon the military system of World in Flames to highlight the diplomatic and civilian fronts. When we think of the First...
A semi-monster coverage of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. The game uses 2 22x34 inch maps with 200 yards to the hex along with 940 counters representing individual regiments and artillery batteries along with all the leaders down to the divisional level. The map covers quite a bit of the area around Gettysburg giving players plenty of room to maneuver....
Festung Schneidemühl 1945 is a strategic war game set during the battle for the Gate of the Pomeranian Wall between January and February 1945. Players command Soviet and German battalions, striving to achieve historical operational objectives. The game features a hexagonal map where each hex represents 400 meters of real terrain. The mechanics are based on...
Field of Mars was originally intended to function as a 'battle board' for the Lace Wars series, which is 'operational' in scope and normally resolves battles using a combat results table. To add value to the product, Field of Mars has been designed to function as a complete game in its own right, suitable for playing both random and historical battles...