The Dresden-class cruiser Emden, known as the 'Swan of the Orient', belonged to the German Oriental Fleet during the First World War. She was to be used in the Indian Ocean to intercept merchant ships. Her captain treated the crews of captured merchant vessels with courtesy and behaviour in accordance with international wartime law, and the ship remained...
SNAPPY NAPPY by Russ Lockwood: Simple, subtle & ultrafast Napoleonic Rules for 2 to 20 players. Simple, yet subtle, rules for multi-corps actions. Step by step introduction for those new to Napoleonic wargaming. Morale based (no figure removal) for fog of war. 1 vol, 60 pgs. 2009 HOPEWELL, OMM PUBLISHING SNAPPY NAPPY is designed for running any Napoleonic...
Solitaire WW2 Wargames: Three Strategy Card Games is vol. 3 in the Minden Classics series. It is a 48-page illustrated book containing three strategy card games originally appearing in issues of Panzer Digest magazine. Stringbag lets you fly Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers against axis warships. Sniper Attack puts you in the role of a sniper, trying to...
Modern man-to-man combat in a city. Developers included Hank Zucker, John Young, Ed Curran, Bob Felice, Bill Sullivan, Angel Gomez, Hal Vaughn. Published in three different formats at SPI alone: the early SPI white box, the very common SPI black box/tray and the accordion box featuring mounted boards. Reimplemented by Patrol - Man to man combat in rural...
From the back of the box: "You send a squad to draw fire, and if they draw fire and come back, then you know where the Germans are." - anonymous soldier in Normandy, 1944 Hetzer: the Bushwacker. Not just a tank, but a strategy. In the hedges of Normandy, the mountain villages of Italy, and the forests of Belgium, Allied and German soldiers fought a tense...
Sniper Kill Confirmed by Jay Kirkpatrick is a card-driven solitaire wargame. YOU take the role of a sniper and his spotter in search of your target and completing your mission. The most deadly thing on a battlefield is one well-aimed shot. — Sgt. Carlos Hatchcock You and your spotter enter play on one of four terrain maps: jungle, desert, countryside, or...
The 2nd edition of "SNIPER!" This game has been combined with the game "PATROL", and the rules have been expanded and thoroughly revised compared to the 1st edition of "SNIPER!". This game looks at war from foxhole level. Each counter represents a single soldier, each turn a handful of seconds, and each victory is a building cleared or a few meters of...
From the box: Special Forces. Small units, painstakingly trained and elaborately equipped, sent on the toughest and most sensitive missions. Handfuls of soldiers, hopelessly outnumbered, waging hit-and-run campaigns behind enemy lines. SAS. Green Berets. Freedom fighters. Deltas. Sniper! Special Forces expands the popular Sniper! (Second Edition) game...
Snipers! is designed to commemorate the hard fighting that took place in Italy during World War II. The German troops faced a determined Allied attack that came over difficult terrain in terrible conditions of cold, rain, snow, heat and dust. The advantages lay with the defender and that made the attacks costly and time consuming. Often both sides seemed...
From the rulebook: "Snooker Champion is an attempt to capture the essence of professional snooker in a replay simulation, where the strengths and weaknesses of the players become subtly apparent from continual playing of the game. The game is designed in two parts, the basic game (taking about 10-12 minutes to complete a single frame) with a wealth of...
Description from the designer: Play through a tournament of five rounds, against ever trickier opponents, win the final and be crowned the BGG World Snooker Champion. Snooker Solitaire follows standard snooker rules and scoring. The cards are used to create the table after an initial break, with a different distribution of balls each game. You'll need to...
The game simulates snooker through the playing of cards to represent shots. Scoring is the same as in snooker, with cards representing the different coloured balls being "potted". Breaks can be built, but the tactical use of safety shots, including snookers, will be needed to come out ahead over a series of frames. Each player is dealt 5 cards, each of...