"Web and Starship" is a strategic space wargame, in which Earth is caught between two races. The Gwynhyfarr, who roam the galaxy in faster-than-light starships, and the Pereen, who link their planets together in a trans-dimensional "web" which permits instantaneous movement from one system to another. Earth is weak and lies directly between its two...
[from the back of the flatpack edition] Wellington's Victory : The Battle of Waterloo - Four-color 68” x 44” contour map in four sections - Innovative Fire and Shock Combat mechanics - Line, Column, Square, Skirmish and Cavalry formations - Hougomont, La Haye Sainte and Plancenoit Scenarios - 40 Game-Turn Grand Battle Scenario Wellington's Victory is a...
West Front '44 is a two-player wargame of the campaigns along the Rhine in the winter of 1944-45 (December to March). The Allies are attempting to establish bridgeheads across the Rhine River while the Germans are planning for their Ardennes counteroffensive. The game uses a variant of the Boots/Manstein's War system to model command, control, and...
A double-blind wargame published in The Wargamer Magazine #35. This Corps/Divisional/Brigade scale game covers the advance into Germany following the Normandy invasion. The double-blind system uses two maps so neither player can see the units of his opponent. Movement is handled by calling out hex numbers when a unit enters into "enemy territory". Players...
The defense of Westerplatte went down in history thanks to the heroism of 216 Polish soldiers attacked by over 2,500 Germans. Attacked from the air by Stukas, shelled from the sea by the battleship Schleswig-Holstein, as well as by artillery and heavy machine guns, they lasted seven long days, inflicting heavy losses on the attackers. —description from the...
When Eagles Fight is two-player game simulating the campaigns fought between the Central powers and Czarist Rusia, from Tanneberg in 1914 to the fall of the Romanov in 1917. Each turn represents one or two months, depending on the season. Each hex equals 25 miles from side to opposite side. Units are mostly corps, with a few divisions representing...
"When Hell Froze Over" is an operational level wargame simulation of the Soviet counter-offensive around the city of Stalingrad in November 1942. Codenamed Operation Uranus, this offensive saw massive thrusts both to the North and South the city itself. Utilizing vast reserves of men and armor that the Germans where unaware of, these two thrusts penetrated...
(from the rules:) The Wilderness Campaign is an historical simulation of the conflict between Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Ulysses S. Grant's Union Army of the Potomac, from May 3 through July 1, 1864. There are two historical scenarios that may be utilized. The initial stage of the actual campaign is portrayed in the May...
Wilson's Creek is a grand tactical, regimental level simulation of the Civil War battle fought on 10 August 1861, five miles southwest of Springfield, Missouri. The game simulates the surprise Union attack (led by Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon) upon an allied force of Confederate regulars led by Brigadier General Benjamin McCulloch, and Missouri State...
Winter's Victory is a grand tactical, battalion level simulation of the battle of Preussisch-Eylau that occurred on February 7th and 8th in 1807 in West Prussia (modern day Poland and Russia). It pits the Emperor Napoleon's Grande Armee against the Army of Imperial Russia under General Count von Bennigsen. This winter battle was one of the bloodiest...
Winter Storm (a/k/a Winter Sturm) is an operational level game on the battles that were fought in Southern Russia from the time of the Soviet counter-offensive at Stalingrad in November of 1942, through February 1943 and the escape of Kleist's First Panzer Army from the Caucasus. Map sheets show the area from the Volga River to Taganrog on the Mius River....
This game is the Napoleonic battle of river Trebbia (june 1799). Wise Bayonets uses the same rules system of Masséna at Loano, integrated with rules needed to reflect the different battle terrain and tactical situation. Compared to the previous game much more emphasis is given to cavalry and much less to the formation of tirailleurs (almost useless in the...