This is low-to intermediate-complexity, two-player, examination of the historic alternative to Montgomery's ill-fated Operation Market Garden. Instead of his left-jab through lowland Holland to the Rhine, we have Patton's proposed right-hook, starting at Metz and swinging north and east toward the Ruhr for a war-winning knockout blow. Or, as an alternative...
The 5th entry in The Gamer's popular Operational Combat System, and the grandest in scope, DAK covers the entire North African campaign at the regimental level, from Compass to El Alemain and beyond. This is the most specialized of the OCS titles, with rules for the Commonwealth brigades & unusual organizations, minefields, the Greek campaign, and a...
DAK II: The Campaign In North Africa, 1940-1942, is the 5th entry in The Gamer's/Multi-Man Publishing popular Operational Combat Series (OCS) and covers the entire campaign in the Western Desert theater in World War II at the regimental level, from Compass to El Alamein and beyond in 17 scenarios. Game Scale: Game Turn: Half Week Hex: 5 miles / 8 Km Units:...
This game simulates the raid by 617 squadron on the German industrial dams on the night of the 16/17th May 1943; the dam which used Barnes Wallis' 2bouncing Bomb". The game is a hex and counter wargame in the main, but involves three distinct parts. In the first, players form their crews and form 617 squadron. the second section uses die rolls to make sure...
Damn the Torpedoes is a fast-moving intuitive game of naval combat during the American Civil War. Players do not need to have a nautical background to maneuver their ships, and the do not need to have degree in algebra to fire their cannons—all they need are a few miniatures (or cardboard counters) a few dice (D6 through D20), a tape measure, and a...
The representational game Damocles uses simultaneous self-regulating play to structure players’ ongoing struggle for total political and economic control of several adjoined kingdoms. In Damocles, players act as the heads of state of small neighboring monarchies, each intent on ultimately controlling the entire minor region. Surrounded by greater and...
Ares Magazine #13. On 15 September 1988, a dark spherical object approximately 1.2 kilometers in diameter of unknown origin assumed a geosynchronous orbit over the Galapagos Islands. Upon orders of the president, an investigating shuttle mission was configured (code name Damocles)... Damocles Mission is a solitaire paragraph based game to explore the alien...
"DAMOS: Army Group Center" is a World War II wargame, issue 2 of the Barbarossa trilogy of wargames that can be combined together as a mini-monster. Each game by itself is a straight forward operational simulation of each theater, and all 3 games share the exact same rules allowing for easy integration. Units are divisions along with army HQs and some air...