With the re-election of President Ronald Reagan in November of 1984, the Soviet Union realizes that they cannot compete with the military spending of the United States. They end their adventure in Afghanistan and turn their eyes westward. They start by sending covert operatives via commercial airlines throughout the United States to prep for their imminent...
Operation Serval is a wargame of the campaign in Mali in West Africa during 2012 and 2013, which saw Islamist forces seize control of the northern part of the country and then threaten the capital at Bamako. A French expeditionary force intervened, counterattacked, and along with various African allies, routed the Islamists in a short and sharp campaign....
Operation Shoestring: The Guadalcanal Campaign, 1942, is an Operational level board-wargame covering the air, land, and sea battles between the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps and the forces of the Japanese Empire on and around Guadalcanal Island in 1942. The unit scale is company-level for the ground game and squadron-level for the air forces....
SPI's Operation Typhoon simulates German attempt to capture Moscow 1941. It uses a variation of the Panzergruppe Guderian system that eventually became the Victory in the West system (including Patton's Third Army, Operation Grenade, and Sicily). This is a big game, three maps but is a very playable monster game and a terrific multi player game. It was the...
Origins of World War I appears in Sid Sackson's well-known game book A Gamut of Games. Gameplay is very similar to Origins of World War II, which was published by The Avalon Hill Game Co in 1971, although players have to provide their own game components. The following description was taken from A Gamut of Games introduction of this game: A...
Origins of World War II is an Avalon Hill bookcase game. A game in which the players take the roles of the major powers of World War II in the 1930s. Each attempts to achieve its diplomatic objectives while preventing the other players from gaining theirs. If Germany or the USSR win World War II starts, if one of the allied powers wins the war would have...
Ortona: The Advance through Italy, Dec. 1943. In December 1943 the Allied advance up Italy was stalling. To regain momentum on the Eastern flank the 1st Canadian Division was given the task of capturing the strategically important city of Ortona. Resistance was expected to be light. However torrential rain turned the countryside into a quagmire and the...
忍城の戦い (Oshi-jō no tatakai) translated in English as "Battle of Oshi-jō", although "The Siege Of Oshi" would be a more accurate name for this wargame. Published in 2011 by a small group Dōjin Club Ludens Faber (同人会ルデンス・ファベル), the designers and illustrators of the game want to remain anonymous. All game elements are contained in a ziplock. This game was...
Outremer is a man-to-man small scale combat game set in the time of the 3rd Crusade (1146). The game is both a game by itself or can be played as an expansion to Cry Havoc and/or Siege. As a stand-alone game it has 3 scenarios as well as a scenario generation system and 2 maps. There are rules covering a character advancement system that allows for a...