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...
"DAMOS: Army Group North" is game 1 of the Barbarossa trilogy of wargames from our new Destroy All Monsters Operational Series (DAMOS) 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...
After being decisively defeat at the Battle of Gazala, the 8th Army, now led by Claude Auchinleck,retreated eastwards into Egypt. Hopes to hold the Axis forces under Erwin Rommel at Mersa Matruh(26th to 28th June) were quickly dashed and the dispirited Allied forces pulled back to the El Alamein line. Rommel’s forces were buoyed by their rapid advance and...
Dangerous Parallel is an instructional game that was created in 1969 by the Foreign Policy Association and published by Scott, Foresman & Co. In the game students are divided into small groups of 2 to 6 members, each playing a ministerial role in the government of six nations that correspond roughly to the real-life participants of the Korean War conflict....
1973 was possibly the nearest that the world came to World War Three. Just following the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, and during the height of the Watergate scandal, the Americans were both war weary and disillusioned. The stock market crash of that year only made the situation worse, and when the Yom Kippur War erupted in October, the Israelis began to...
In the early morning hours of March 9th, 1916, Pancho Villa launched an attack on the sleeping town of Columbus, New Mexico, and the adjacent US Army camp. Villa’s intelligence operation had failed. Having ordered the men forward, he was unaware that so much of the US 13th Cavalry was at Camp Furlong that night. After hours of confused combat in the...
Dark Age Games is a new gaming company that has produced a miniatures game based on the art and themes of Brom's Dark Age world. It's a dark and ruined world where different factions and different races battle to survive. The game is a skirmish level game using a d20 for all dice rolls. It is designed for a two-player game of approximately 20 models aside...
Dark Age is a Sci-Fi skirmish miniatures wargame where players command groups of Grim Survivors, Savage Warriors, Berserk Robots, Cunning Aliens, in their fight for survival on a hostile planet. Games are fast, involving a handful of 28mm models per side, played using an turn sequence with alternating actions. C Combat is resolved using D20s and tend to be...
Miniature wargame rules for the Dark Ages up through Norman Conquest. Originally published in "Miniature Wargames" Magazine, No. 7, 1983. Referred to on occasion as "D.A.I.S" or "The D.A.I.S. System." Made available through Wyre Forest Games Club as a free download: The game strives to capture the "feel" of the period using two or three "divisions" or...