"B-17: Queen of the Skies" is a wargame which re-creates the early bombing missions and aerial combat of the B-17 (F Model) bombers of the US Eighth Air Force over Europe between November 1942 and May 1943. Movement to targets is through zones. Die rolls and game tables determine appearance, type, and position of enemy fighters. Charts are used to...
First off, I should point out that "meatgrinder" is being used in professional literature about the battle. An example is the 18th April 2023 article "How Long Should Ukrainian Forces Defend Bakhmut? Lessons from Stalingrad," by Gælan Hanlon on West Point's Modern War Institute website. This seemingly conventional hex-and-counter combat-odds-resolution...
Bar Lev is a game of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, referred to by the Israelis as the War of Atonement or the Yom Kippur War, and by the Arabs as the War of Ramadan. Players will represent the Israeli and Arab high commands and maneuver their units and conduct combat in an attempt to attain the objectives of their respective nations. Because of the two front...
Players represent barbarian hordes who sweep down from the steppes to overwhelm the remnants of the Roman Empire and then build strong expansionistic kingdoms among the ruins. These kingdoms grow into empires which become rich, corrupt, and the target of new waves of barbarian invaders. Being defeated is not the end of the game, as players may return to...
Brief as in both speed of play and File or Case or ... Dossier. :) VERY small footprint Barbarossa game. Like Philip Sabin's classic Eastern Front, only **3** hexes from Warsaw to Moscow, although a different configuration of those. 4 2-month turns, basic hex and counter dice-resolved combat odds system. But lots of combat options including Pressed Attack...
Barbarossa: Game of the Russo-German War 1941-45, On 22 June 1941, the German Wehrmacht invaded Soviet Russia in an operation code-named Barbarossa. BarBarossa is a strategic, two-player, Corps-level simulation of the four year struggle of the East Front war in the Soviet Union. The Axis Player takes the role of the German High Command (OKH) and controls...
On June 22, 1941, before dawn, German tanks and guns began firing across the Russian border. It was the beginning of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, one of the most brutal campaigns in the history of warfare. Four years later, the victorious Red Army has suffered a loss of seven million lives. The Barbarossa campaign included some of the greatest episodes...
"Basic Training is played on a small hex-based map that represents a section of New Guinea. The playing pieces represent companies of Australian Army and Japanese Army soldiers. Each player moves and attacks with his units, in turn, in an attempt to capture (or prevent from being captured) the Village hexes shown on the map. The Japanese player is...
Basileus II is the sixth module of the game system "À la Charge !". It uses the special characteristics of Basileus, such as Unseizable, and the particularly formidable units, the Byzantine cataphracts. With a standard hex & counter "I go - You go" system, players play certain number of turns, in each of which there are movement & combat phases for both...
First released in Strategy & Tactics magazine #20 (December 1969) along with Anzio Beachhead. It was also available in SPI's "whitebox" and "Flat Pack" lines. This was Dunnigan's first (of several) Battle of the Bulge games. Per Dunnigan: "Bastogne was an attempt to do the Bulge with max accuracy. The map was a tedious effort to create, working from...