This game is a horse racing game utilizing a scoring board and a 12" 78rpm record. Players place their bets for the horse(s) of their choice. on the scoring board. The available horses include some of the greats of all time with Omaha, Whirlaway, Count Fleet, Bold Venture, War Admiral and Pensive. After wagers are placed the record is played. The record...
Descent on Crete is a tactical, company level simulation of the largest German airdrop of World War II. The entire scope of the operation is taken in, as players are given the command decisions throughout the operation. Special rules covering the air drop, air strikes, supply, leadership, fatigue, and British Armour are included. Depending on the scenario...
"Losing Tobruk was one of the heaviest blows I can recall during the war.” — Winston Churchill Desert Blitzkrieg is an Operational level two-player board-wargame covering the North African desert Campaign from April 1941 to December 1942. Units are regimental level and Divisional Integrity is key to maximizing the density of your forces on the map covering...
Free print-and-play. Division and independent brigade level - few units and fast play - 7.5mis/12kms per hex which is larger than AH's Afrika Korps. Campaign game has 4 11x17/A3 component mapsheets perfect for the scale. Campaign game has 45 half-month turns - IIFeb41-IIDec42 - and could be long, but many turns may be spent just fortifying and rebuilding...
Desert Carnage: The Second Battle of Nanawa, July 1933 covers the three day battle between Bolivia and Paraguay during the long Chaco War. The Chaco War remains the only declared war among South American nations in the 20th Century. In brief, Bolivia wanted access to the Atlantic, and de-manded Paraguay cede territory. The earlier discoveries of minerals...
A Most Bitter Blow - Operation Battleaxe, June 1941 -The famous Tiger Convoy of May 1941 brought over two hundred tanks and fifty Hurricane fighters to Wavell’s command in North Africa – and an increased expectation from Churchill of an imminent offensive. General Wavell had reservations about the operation but reluctantly gave the green light. After early...
An LPS bonus mini-game for two-players, Desert Duel, by designer Mike Rinella, looks at the first battle of Alamein in 1942, where modern armies fought each other and the desert, in a desperate effort to breakthrough to or defend the path to the Nile. This is not the Monty vs. Rommel El Alamein battle most people think of but an earlier action, July 1 to...
Desert Fox is a brigade level simulation of the war in North Africa from the arrival of Erwin Rommel in March of 1941 until the end of 1942 when the Allies, landing amphibious forces in Western Africa, blockaded any chances for future Axis offensives in North Africa. The Axis player attempts to secure Libya and Egypt by seizing Alexandria, while the...
Fox Killed is an expansion of The Desert Fox wargame appearing in Strategy & Tactics magazine nr 87. Fox Killed simulates war between Britain and Italy in North Africa from the start of Graziani’s offensive into Egypt in September of 1940 up to February 1941, when the arrival of German forces in Tripolitania and the transfer of British forces to Greece...
Return to Europe: Sicily & Italy July–Nov 1943 is a Strategic level board-wargame of the Allied invasion of Sicily and Southern Italy. The operation was viewed as only a limited offensive to secure the Mediterranean and force Italy out of the war. The Germans also intended only a limited effort to delay the Allies while a strong defense was established at...
The 7th Armored Division was an armored division of the British Army that saw distinguished active service during World War II, where its exploits in the Western Desert Campaign gained it the Desert Rats nickname. This exciting new wargame centers on the battles of this distinguished division. The Italian attack on Egypt in 1940 opened the new front of...
From the website: Desert Spitfires is part of the Wings at War series of wargames rules from Tumbling Dice. Desert Spitfires is designed for recreating Arab-Isreali Independence War 1948-49 air combat using Tumbling Dice's 1/600th scale aircraft models. The games are designed to last around one or two hours. As the sky tends to be a lot less cluttered than...