By November of 1796, Napoleon Bonaparte was eight months into a brilliant campaign in northern Italy which was removing any Austrian threats to the French Republic's southern flank. The fighting that month, north of the besieged city of Mantua, proved to be one of the first great challenges in the young General Bonaparte's career. Two Austrian forces under...
Ardennes is an Operational level board-wargame, number 3 in the Standard Combat Series by The Gamers. This wargame covers the German attack in the Ardennes in 1944, better known as the Battle of the Bulge. From the publisher: Dec. 16, 1944: Along 50 miles of front in Belgium, the German Wehrmacht shatters the stillness of the morning as it begins its last...
"Ardennes 1944", published in Vae Victis issue #48, covers the World War 2 Battle of the Bulge at the scale of two days per turn, 4.5 km per hex, and most counters represent infantry divisions or armored/other brigades or regiments. This is the fourth iteration of this particular wargame system, a favorite of Vae Victis's, previously used in issues 13...
Ardennes Petite (Ardennes Small) is a very small-scale - only 6 hexes to Namur! - eight 2-day turn (16Dec44-2Jan45) division-to-corps-level Battle of the Bulge minigame, designed as a half-hour-lunch game. The U.S. starts with 6 units - the Germans with 9. Combat is a fairly simple 1:2 to 4:1 Disruption/Retreat combat odds system, with no Defender...
Ardennes Plus is a grand strategic level simulation of 20th century conflicts in the densely forested and rough terrain of the Ardennes region of France, Luxembourg and Belgium. This game features scenarios for Hitler’s Invasion of France, May 1940. This is Vol 2 of Ardennes Plus+ with the series also including Vol 1 WWII 1944, and Vol 3 WWI 1914. The game...
Armored Genesis Mospeda: Valkyrie versus Regios is the 2nd edition of Super Dimensional Fortress Macross: Minmay Attack. It includes all the previous material with the addition of Mospeda units. The game is a doujin (fan-produced) game that was only sold at Japanese game shows. It was not made for the general public. To order, you had to place an order in...
Armored Knights Case Blue - Don Bend is Grognard Simulations' flagship game of the revamped Armored Knights series for the Eastern Front. This game places you in command of the German 6th Army and is supporting elements. They are approaching the Don River and the key town of Kalach, a place where the Soviets need to hold on to a key rail center and bridge...
West Wall is one of the Quad series that SPI published - a grouping of 4 different battles of a war, using a set of standard rules with a separate set of exclusive rules for each battle. This Quad contained the battles of: Arnhem (Operation Market-Garden) Bastogne (Bulge) Hurtgen Forest (Roer river valley) Remagen (Rhine bridgehead) As wargames go, these...
Published in ''The Dragon'' magazine, Issue #69. From the introduction: Arrakhar's Wand is a fantasy boardgame of tactics and strategy for two players. One player (the sorcerer player) hides the wand in his realm and defends it with a group of evil sorcerers who can summon the aid of demons, orcs, and ghouls. The other player (the wizard player) invades...
"Ascari" is a company-level wargame based on the stories of loyal solders who fought for Italy in Eritrea, the first Italian colony. The game depicts four battles in which the Italians were the protagonists: the two battles of Agordat against the Dervishes, Amba Alagi, and Coatit against the Ethiopians. A bonus scenario depicting the battle of Metemma...