The game covers three important battles of the Italian campaign. Allied landing near the port of Salerno, executed on 9 September 1943 under the codename “Avalanche”, was a part of the Allied invasion of Italy. The Italians withdrew from the war the day before the invasion, but the Allies landed in an area defended by the German troops that quickly started...
Tactical/operational simulation of the British sector of the Normandy Invasion, 1944. Game scale : 1 hex = 1 Km., 1 turn = 2 hours. Most units are battalions with some companies. Game starts with placement of airborne units (Br. Airborne attacks of the night) and then amphibious operations. Objective is to reach Caen and do better than Montgomery in the...
Mosby's Raiders puts you in command of the Partisan Rangers. Your mission is to infiltrate enemy lines to disrupt the Union war effort. As you succeed in your operations, your notoriety grows and the Union devotes additional troops to stopping you. You select the Union targets for your raids and decide which actions Mosby's Raiders will perform. You may be...
"Moscow" is a two-player World War II wargame covering the advance of Army Group Center, Autumn 1941. It is a simulation of the campaign by the Germans to capture Moscow from the Soviets from October until January 1941. This wargame’s system is a progeny of the foregoing "Leningrad" wargame published by Decision Games (2010) with some slight differences...
The Moscow Campaign; Strike and Counterstrike Russia, 1941, is the successor to SPI's earlier treatment of roughly the same events, The Battle of Moscow (originally published in Strategy & Tactics magazine #24). The Moscow Campaign covers the final German drives on the Russian capital and the first Soviet counteroffensive. The scale is 6 miles per hex and...
Mountains Aflame is a game about the Spring 1916 Austro-Hungarian offensive on the Italian Front, aimed to drive to Vicenza and the Veneto plain, west of Venice, cutting off the whole front in Carnia and along the Isonzo river. One player controls the Austro-Hungarian forces, the other the Italian forces. Each player attempts to achieve, or maintain...
First edition in Italian - Para Bellum #1 magazine Inferno sugli Altopiani is an Operational level board-wargame about the Spring 1916 Austro-Hungarian offensive on the Italian Front, aimed to drive to Vicenza and the Veneto plain, west of Venice, cutting off the whole front in Carnia and along the Isonzo river. One player controls the Austro-Hungarian...
A game of the Battle of Stones River. In a bitter cold Tennessee December, the Union Army of the Cumberland under Major General W.S. Rosencrans faced the Confederate Army of Tennessee, commanded by General Braxton Bragg. Both generals decided to fall on the enemy's left flank, and the confused battle that followed was one of the most desperate and savage...
"Napgammon" is a light weight wargame of luck and maneuver. It takes the core roll-and-move mechanism of Backgammon and applies it to a two-dimensional point-to-point map with differentiated terrain and movement costs. As in Backgammon, players roll two dice at the start of their turn and make one move for each die. Rolling doubles allows four moves, but...
The Battle of Waterloo is perhaps the best known battle in history. The time is 18 June 1815. The Duke of Wellington's armies are drawn to defend the road to Brussels. Napoleon's superior French forces begin their assault. Can the British thin red line hold until the Prussian army arrives to fall upon Napoleon's flanks? A simple introductory wargame....