Few aircraft embodied “the future” like the F-104 Starfighter. The shining needle-like gleaming metal fuselage and pressure-suit clad crew evoke spaceships more than aircraft. Lockheed’s legendary designer Kelly Johnson interviewed fighter crews during the Korean War and created a simple fighter that maximized performance. His team conceived of the...
Fly a new jet, wield a new missile, fly a new scenario. Airbattle RAG 5 is the product for everyone who enjoys the challenging world of jet dogfighting in Birds of Prey Air Combat in the Jet Age! New jets to fly, test your skills in new scenarios, and unleash new missiles on your opponents! Experience the dawn of the jet age over the Korean peninsula in...
Airbattle RAG is the journal of adventure and learning, expanding your world of jet dogfighting with new aircraft, missiles, and scenarios! Airbattle RAG 6 features all the new content released at two recent Birds of Prey Conventions. “Strike from the Sea” was the theme of the 2021 Birds of Prey Convention and featured fights where at least one side...
1986. Present day. The Indian Ocean. OPFOR airspace. Across 36 years of technological advancement, can you still prove you’re the best of the best? From its small start in a trailer out back of Miramar’s hangar row and validated in the skies over Vietnam, the role of the Navy Fighter Weapons School exploded into public consciousness at the climax of the...
Bireme & Galley covers naval combat from ancient times up until just before ships started mounting cannon (the subtitle is "Naval Warfare, Egypt to Lepanto"). The 99-page rulebook includes 31 pages describing the various kinds of warships in common use in ancient and medieval times (with many drawings), 12 pages of ship data tables, and the remainder the...
Simulation of the Seven Days' Battles which started Robert E. Lee on the road to glory. The setting is the Union’s Peninsula Campaign in the spring of 1862. McClellan has formed and trained a large army, transported it by sea in an outflanking maneuver, marched it to the gates of the Confederate capital, and is poised to capture the city and probably bring...
"Birth of a Nation" first published in The Wargamer Magazine (#18) Jan-Feb 1982, is a two-player company level wargame simulation of the battle of Freeman's Farm (Saratoga), Sept. 19, 1777. Points are awarded to the British player for Victory point hexes occupied and for un-demoralized units. The number of points gained determines the level of victory for...
A set of medium to large scale wargames rules for the American Civil War period 1861 to 1865. Units are organized into Brigades and commanded at Divisional level for the Confederation and at Corp level for the Union. A very simple command ordering system allows a fast flowing game to unfold right before your eyes. This is achieved through a command...
Hunt down and sink the Bismarck. Three levels of play. In the advanced game, you use miniatures rules for the combat. Hidden movement by the use of separate search boards. The original Bismarck game from AH was remarkable for one reason: the ONLY playing piece that the German player had was the Bismarck! A straight forward move-and-search naval game. If...
Miniature Wargame Rules for the Second Schleswig War, modified from Furia Francese: Rules for Wargaming the Franco-Austrian War of 1859, a 1991 FreiKorps publication. These rules are intended to allow the historical miniatures gamer to recreate battles of the war that took place between Denmark and the German Allies (Austria and Prussia) during 1864. Known...
Bismarck recreates the British hunt for the German battleship, Bismarck, in 1941. Players are operating blind and are attempting to find (in the case of the British) or avoid (as for the Germans) each other, as the locations of each player's ships are hidden from each other. Searches are conducted à la Battleship by calling out target locations that search...
Command the pride of the German Navy in Bismarck Solitaire by Worthington Publishing. Lead the German ships Bismarck, Prinz Eugen, and U-boat support as they take on the determined Royal Navy with one goal, Sink the Bismarck! It's a sea hunt game. As the German commander you are hunting convoys and British warships. You are also hunted by the British Navy...