La Primogenita is a wargame at Brigade level about the East African Campaign in 1941. It covers the Allied invasion into Italian Eritrea in the north where the most intense fighting took place, especially around the town of Cheren. The Allies invaded Eritrea with two Indian Divisions and some Free French units. The defending Italians consisted mostly of...
Road to Richmond is an extra Blue and Gray Civil War Quad game, first published in Strategy & Tactics magazine #60. Also released in Folio format From the introduction: Road to Richmond is a simulation of the engagement between Robert E. Lee's Army of Nortern Virginia and George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomc during its change of base to the James River...
This is a simulation of the post-Normandy campaigns from September 1st, 1944 to April 1945 on the West front. The game covers the initial attempts by the Allies to maintain the pace of their advance in the face of a rapidly deteriorating logistical situation, the German recovery culminating in the Battle of the Bulge, and the final Allied drive across the...
The Battle of Champion Hill game uses the Blue & Gray system. It was included in the Strategy & Tactics magazine Issue #103. The May 16, 1863 Battle of Champion Hill was the largest, bloodiest, and most significant action of Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign. 32,000 advancing Union soldiers met 23,000 Confederates in a fierce struggle for a vital crossroads...
(from MMP website:) Rock of the Marne: The Second Battle of the Marne, 15 July to 25 July, 1918 covers both the final attack of the German army in July 1918, and the Allied counteroffensive that produced the battle known to Americans as the Second Battle of the Marne. The Germans believed they could launch an offensive on both sides of Reims, which would...
"Rockets Red Glare" is a board wargame simulation of the War Of 1812 in North America on the strategic and operational levels, designed by Stephen Newberg and first published by "Simulations Canada" in 1981. The objective of both players will be to accumulate victory points for certain actions. The player who has accumulated the most victory points by the...
"Rommel, l'Ultima Gloria a Kasserine" is a World War 2 board wargame depicting the last great offensive of the German-Italian forces in Tunisia to halt the advance of the British and American forces which landed in Marocco in 1942. The board is a three dimensional map consisting of a reproduction of the area on three levels. Degree of difficulty: 5/6...
"Rommel: The War for North Africa", one of the "Great Battles of History" series wargames, actually should have been titled "Battles for Tobruk", since it only covers the general area around that famous fortress/Port. The container for this is a pinkish fold-over cardboard with a large cut-out on the Front and smaller cut-out on the back for storage of the...
"Four Battles of Army Group South" consists of four completely separate regimental/divisional level wargames, each with its own 17" x 22" five-color map, unit counters and rules. All four games use a set of Standard Rules derived from Panzergruppe Guderian as the basic core game rules. Each game then, has it's own set of Exclusive rules. Kiev: The Battle...
Rostov: The First Soviet Counter-Attack, 1941 is a division/regiment level simulation of the German drive across the Donets Basin in the fall of 1941. Army Group South, accompanied by various Axis-Allied Armies, attempted to seize the valuable communications junction at Rostov and establish bridgeheads across the Donets and lower Don rivers. In the...
On the 18th of December, 1940 Hitler issued Fuhrer Directive No. 21, code named Barbarossa, which stated: “The Soviet Union is to be crushed in one swift campaign before the war with England ends.” On the 22nd of June, 1941, Barbarossa was finally launched. Over three million German soldiers, most of them veterans of the campaigns in Poland, France, and...