Recreating the political life of ancient Athens, from the birth of Democracy to the titanic struggle with Sparta, players cooperate and compete to manage its fortunes, especially its politics, wars and government. Players must constantly balance personal advancement against the security of the state. They trade and fight to build up the empire, vie for...
The Atlanta Campaign is an Operational level wargame simulation of the 1864 North Georgia campaign fought between the Union armies of William T. Sherman and the Confederate Army of Tennessee led by Joseph E, Johnston. Abraham Lincoln's best hope for reelection against strong anti-war sentiment in the North depended upon the outcome of this campaign. If the...
Published in Decision Games's Strategy & Tactics issue #170 The Atlanta Campaign: Bald Hill and Ezra Church presents two additional American Civil War board wargames for their venerable "Blue & Gray" system. These games are based around the fighting for Atlanta, Georgia during the American Civil War and each game is named for the individual battles they...
Published in Decision Games's Strategy & Tactics issue #169 The Atlanta Campaign: Peachtree Creek & Jonesboro presents two additional American Civil War wargames for their venerable "Blue & Gray" system. These games are based around the fighting for Atlanta, Georgia during the American Civil War and each wargame, named for the individual battles they...
Atlanta Is Ours is a game in the award-winning Series: Great Campaigns of the American Civil War (Avalon Hill/MMP) (GCACW) series. The two maps included are painted by original map artist Charlie Kibler. The military unit counters have been redesigned by Charlie Kibler to harken back to the counters in the original games in the series but with a more...
Relatively fast, free print-and-play minimalist convoys campaign game to keep Britain alive and build up for D-Day, opposed by U-boats, Kondor(/Vulture) etc. bombers, and the usual suspects: Scharnhorst, Bismarck, a pocket battleship, a raider, etc. Half-year turns. NO GRID. }:-) 3 convoy lanes to lay out with 1 or more convoys per lane plus any escorting...
6 June 1944: While German Troops battled for their lives on the Eastern Front, all remained quiet in the West. The long anticipated allied invasion seemed particularly unlikely along this portion of French Coast known as Normandy. But this was D-Day, and the unlikely was soon to become reality. As the vast Allied armada came into view, as Allied munitions...
A fairly fast abstracted World War 1 Atlantic war campaign game. Like Atlantic Convoys 1939-45, no grid necessary. (Max. of 3 convoy lanes plus Murmansk Run. Independent sailers ... sail independently, as does the hard-to-catch special Transport convoy.) 9 half-year turns. Half as many dreadnoughts and battle cruisers (in proportion) for playability....
Some have called it the most crucial campaign of the Second World War. It was not fought on the ground with tanks and artillery; it was the Battle of the Atlantic, pitting the German Wolfpacks versus the allied convoy system. Upon the result of the campaign hung the fate of Great Britain, and, by extension, the Allied cause in Europe. "Atlantic Wolves" is...
"Excalibre Games Simulation of Atlantean Fantasy." "Remnants of an ancient past, flee the path of their destruction." "This 349 series simulation introduces Atlantis as a modern civilization with anti-gravity hovercraft, rockets, lasers and the ultimate weapon. Atlantis warlike and bent on conquest faces the combined but weaker forces of the ancient Greeks...
Based on the Victory Games (and now Compass Games) 'Fleet' series of modern naval warfare games, this game focuses on Pacific Northwest area of operations, specifically in the Alaskan waters, the Bering Strait, and the Sea of Okhotsk. The latter was an important underwater staging area for the Soviet (and now Russian) Navy's ballistic missile submarines....