Operation Compass: North Africa, December 1940 is an Operational level Solitaire board-wargame where the player primarily takes on the role of commanding the Allied forces during the first 4 days of the campaign in Egypt that saw the Italian forces forced out of that country in 1940. The Italian forces are managed by the player in accordance with the...
Following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Germany swiftly joined its Axis partner and declared war on the United States on Dec. 11, 1941. Admiral Karl Dönitz, commander of Germany’s much-feared u-boat fleet, altered his strategy to bring the maritime war to America’s east coast. Where once he relied on German submarines preying on...
Operation Goodtime is a moderate complexity level solitaire play game on the battle for the Treasury Islands. The player takes on the role of the commander of the New Zealand forces seeking to wrest control of key points of Mono and Stirling Islands. These islands were key to the Allied offensive in the Solomon Islands and isolating the Japanese fortress...
Budapest 1945: The Bitter End This is a solitaire wargame that recreates the German Operation Konrad, which began on January 1, 1945. The player controls the German army and aims to rescue Budapest, which is besieged by the Soviet army. Soviet infantry units are printed directly onto the map while their armored elements can move and counterattack if...
Operation Licorne 2002–2011: France in Combat in Côte d’Ivoire In November 2002, Côte d’Ivoire —formerly a symbol of French-backed stability in Africa— erupted in conflict. A rebellion seized the north of the country. France urgently reinforced its units on the ground, launching Operation Licorne. Convoys raced north and west to secure and evacuate Western...
Operation Meteor is a solitaire game of planetary assault in which you take command of the human colonial forces fighting to free Earth from the machines. A century in the future, a rogue Artificial Intelligence has taken over the Earth and is bent on exterminating humanity. Yet the Lunar Colonies remain free, and now they've launched an invasion from...
It is the night of December 11th 1942 in the Algiers harbour; the Italian submarine AMBRA has just deployed three SLC (Siluri a Lenta Corsa), manned by ten Gamma subs. Their aim is to sink as much Allied vessels as possible! Will you manage after six Action Card to reach the Allied ships and then come back to the Ambra submarine and check which one you...
Operation Olympic is a hypothetical simulation of the planned invasion of Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese Home Islands in November 1945. It was designed to secure a base of operations for the follow-up Operation Coronet, which was scheduled to be launched against the principal Home Island of Honshu in March 1946. Units are regiments and brigades...
Operation PBSUCCESS is a fast-playing solitaire game that simulates the 1954 coup of Guatemala. The player takes the role of the CIA-backed and Castillo Armas-led rebels, fighting against the Árbenz presidency. But it also models the wider Cold War political and economic issues faced by President Eisenhower’s team, his CIA leadership, the surrounding...
“Time is now against Iran.” –Chairman and de facto commander-in-chief, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s comment following Operation Praying Mantis. Following the destruction of Iran Air Flight 655 by the US, fully loaded with pilgrims on their way to Mecca for the Haj, the Iranian military vowed revenge against the “Great Satan”. With Grand Ayatollah Khomeni...
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...