This is the first of the Area-Impulse games done by Avalon Hill which later included Thunder at Cassino, Turning Point: Stalingrad and Breakout Normandy. The game simulates the ferocious battle for the Arnhem Bridge on September 18-21, 1944. The game begins with the British holding the area around the bridge, surrounded by the Germans. They try to hold out...
The war of 1870 was marked by major sieges such as those of Metz, Strasbourg and Paris. The one of Belfort, from November 3, 1870 to February 18, 1871, is one of the last episodes of the war and the garrison will be the last French army to lay down its arms. To simulate the siege, the Storm over Diksmuide (VaeVictis 133) system was copied and modified. The...
Storm Over Dien Bien Phu is a 2-player wargame simulating the Battle of Dien Bien Phu from March to May 1954, focusing on the French central strongpoints of Gabrielle, Anne–Marie, Beatrice, Eliane, Claudine, Huguette and Dominique. One player controls the French forces, and the other player controls the Viet Minh forces. In the spring of 1954, General Giap...
"Storm Over Kunlun Pass, 1939" is a two player wargame simulating the Battle of Kunlun Pass from December 18 to 30, 1939. One player plays the Japanese army and the other plays the Chinese KMT troops. Battalion level for the KMT Chinese, Company level for the Japanese Army. The game is 13 turns long with each turn equal to one day. The game has 8 pages of...
"Storm Over Madrid 1936: Miracle of November" simulates the fighting that took place during the attempt to capture of Madrid, that lasted between October 1936 and January 1937 during the course of the Spanish Civil War. A long and bloody siege affair. "Storm Over Madrid" uses a modified version of the well-known area-impulse wargame system. The...
A two-players game derived from Stratego, but asymmetrical and themed in the Greek Mythology universe. Two teams of gods struggle for the dominance of the Olympus - its current occupiers, lead by Zeus, against the Chthonians, entities of the Underworld lead by Hades. Both players choose a team of 9 out of 12 units. As in Stratego, their pieces identities...
Storm Over Stalingrad is a 2-player wargame simulating the Battle of Stalingrad from October to November 1942. One player controls the German army, and the other player controls the Soviet army. The game uses a simplified version of the Area–Impulse System, first introduced in Avalon Hill’s “Storm Over Arnhem”. The game is 6 turns long, at the end of which...
ATO #25 Storm Over Taierzhuang is a two player game simulating the Battle of Taierzhuang from March 25 to April 6, 1938. One player plays the Japanese Army and the other plays the Chinese KMT troops. The game is 13 turns long. Simulates the most famous battle of the Second Sino-Japanese war 1937-1945 which the Japanese 10th division with 25,000 fanatical...
Storm over Yasuda Auditorium, University of Tokyo is a two-player game of "Yasuda Auditorium Incident", a conflict between Tokyo Metropolitan Police's riot squad and All Campus Joint Struggle League, January 18-19, 1969 during University of Tokyo Protests. FYI https://features.japantimes.co.jp/student-riots/ The game system is based on Avalon Hill's Storm...