Microgame #7 in the Metagaming Microgames series. From the back cover of the rule book: "THE WEBBIES WANT YOUR MIND... OLYMPICA simulates the U.N. Mars raid to capture the Web Mind Generator from a heavily defended area near Nix Olympica's massive caldera. The Webbie revolutionaries are deep in their tunnel complexes surrounded by strong points and...
On To Vienna!: The Austro-Prussian War 1866 is a Strategic level board-wargame which simulates the 1866 Austro-Prussian War. It's a sequel to "On To Paris!: The Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871" using a wargame system adapted from Victory Games’ The Civil War. Players familiar with On To Paris! will be immediately familiar with the scale, system, rules and...
One-Page Bulge is an Operational level board-wargame created by Steve Jackson as an attempt to produce a workable simulation of the World War II "Battle of the Bulge" with only an A4 side of rules. The game comes in the micro-game format (basically a plastic box approx 10cm x 20cm x 1cm), with a single sheet of glossy paper about A3, including the map and...
One-page Sekigahara is a Japanese doujin (fan-made) game produced by Ludens Faber. The game simulates the battle between the Tokugawa and Toyotomi. The game is a typical wargame, with movement and attack values, zones of control, a CRT for combat results, and a turn track. The game includes a map, rules, historical guide, and mounted counters. The counters...
Operation Gertrud: The German Invasion of Turkey is a speculative two-player wargame about a German invasion of Turkey during the Second World War. The historical course of events during World War II precluded any likelihood that the Germans would invade their erstwhile ally, it is conceivable that a different turn of events could have precipitated a...
The game is a two-player simulation of the U.S. Ninth Army's February 1945 offensive in the Rhineland area of Germany. The U.S. player gains victory points for occupying German towns and for occupying bridges on the Rhine river. The number of points gained determines the level of victory for both players. Included are a 22"X34" mapsheet, standard rules for...
What if Hitler decided to try again for Moscow during the summer of 1942 rather than plunging the Wehrmacht deep into the Caucasus and Stalingrad as he did historically? "Operation Kremlin" uses the corps-army level units that were historically available for this campaign. The German player is on the offensive, seeking to win by controlling Moscow and...
Operation Market Garden is a "double-blind" game focusing on the failed Allied airborne offensive of September 1944. It was one of three "double-blind" land warfare wargames released by GDW in the eighties. The game system used two maps so that both players were "in the dark" as to the disposition of the opposing forces at the start of the game. The game...
Sub-titled: 'Ludendorff's Last Chance' & Part of the Standard Combat Series #9, this game covers the March 21, 1918 offensive by the Germans in order to regain the initiative on the Western Front before the might of the U.S. forces will be felt. The components consist of the following: a Full COLOR paper Mapsheet; 420-Full COLOR cardboard counters in 2...
Operation PBSUCCESS is a fast-playing solitaire game that simulates the 1954 coup of Guatemala. The player takes the role of the CIA-backed and Castillo Armas-led rebels, fighting against the Árbenz presidency. But it also models the wider Cold War political and economic issues faced by President Eisenhower’s team, his CIA leadership, the surrounding...