The game system has some unique qualities. Above all the open sequence of play within each players Operations Phase. The game system models the seven Battlefield Operating Systems (BOS) in some detail and this makes play of the game feel very different from other comparable games. During this Operations Phase you can perform Maneuver/Fire, Fire Support...
The British Counter-Attack at Arras This game is a collaborative design between Grognard Simulations and Stronpoint Simulations of the British Armies surprise attack on Rommel's 7th Panzer Division at the city of Arras. This game is a lighter version of the Death Ride series and a good introductory game for the series. The battle is an interesting...
This four day battle is one of the more gruesome fights in the Pacific Theater. This game showcases a unique landing system. While the fight to capture the island is not really 'in doubt', the Marines have a difficult time of wresting control of the place from the tough Japanese defenders. The main battle campaign starts with the Marines aboard their...
This enhancement provides Air, Maintenance, and Logistics elements to support the Commonwealth forces in the Normandy campaign. This enhancement provides the Commonwealth player with the entire II British Tactical Airforce. Additional maintenance recovery units, supply transport units, and supply units, all spell extra detail that players will appreciate....
The Canadian 3rd Infantry Division, landing to the west of the 3rd British Infantry Division, made good gains on D-Day and looked like it would be able to advance on Caen on the 7th without problem. After consolidating for the night the Candians moved out smartly in the morning to the south along the road to Carpiquet Airport to the west of the city of...
This game is the first of all the beach areas involved in the great adventure to liberate France. DRN-Omaha Beach is a spectacular game, at platoon and company level, of the landings by the 1st and 29th US Infantry Divisions and their supporting elements. This game details getting the troops ashore like no other game with landing craft and naval gunfire...
"Death Struggle: Barbarossa 1941" is a Brigade to Division to Corps/Army level wargame with many pieces but incentive to create the (much fewer) higher level units to speed gameplay. 24 miles per hex - 30 hexes from Warsaw to Moscow. 15 half-month turns, IIJun41-IIJan42, enabling the Russian Winter counteroffensive. Includes a breakthrough/Blitzkrieg...
Abstracted land, sea, and air game. 9-day turns, so a normal 8Dec41-6Mar42game is 10 turns, although the game can be shortened by an even earlier Japanese victory or lengthened by a stubborn, crafty Allied/ABDA defense. Individual battleships and carriers, otherwise usually 2-cruiser, 4-destroyer and 6-transport divisions, air squadrons, and regiment or...
Description from the publisher: Following the combats around Turda in September 1944, Malinovsky receives the order from Stavka to attack in the direction of Budapest. To do this, he assembles a great force, albeit slightly weakened by previous combat: Pliev and Gorshkov’s mobile groups, 6th Armoured Guards Army and 53rd Army with a tank corps… on the...
Theme Caution: This is not just a game, it is a LIFE STORY. You have a stable job, but also notice that there are lots of hidden opportunities around you, and you cannot wait to show to the world achievements you can make. To be a famous Business Giant? Or to be a wealthy Property Tycoon? How much can you accomplish within a decade? They are all of your...
Published in The Wargamer Magazine Vol.I, #23, this game covers the German operations called Fruelingswind & Morgenluft which led to the famous battle at Kasserine Pass in Tunisia in 1943. This game feature a rich variety of nationalities (US, British, French, German, and Italian) as well as unit types (motorcyle troops even!) played on a single map. Units...