“Is there anyone who dares travelling from Peking to Paris in the next summer by car?” Five daring crews with their cars left Peking for Paris on June 10th, 1907, to take up this incredible challenge: a 10,000 miles long trip over trails and mule tracks, across the mountains of China, the Gobi Desert, and the Russian steppes. Pékin-Paris is a card-driven...
ペンギンセンス (Penguin Sense) is a push your luck game from Japan. As Emperor Penguins, players swim out to see in search of food for their young. But they risk being attacked by predators such as seals or orcos. Each player takes turns to take a food chip, worth 1-4, and then flip the Sea Card underneath the chip. Each card shows some aspect of life at sea...
Fast 8-turn game about Operation Market Garden 13-29Sep44, from south of Eindhoven to north of Arnhem. 12 Allied and 15 German pieces. "Monty Fantasy" 50% possibility the German SS panzer divisions *won't* be there at game-start to confront the paradrops. Basic 25%-50%-25% combat odds allocation/resolution system. Weather 50% good after Turn 1. Hidden city...
Postcard Brittany is a relatively fast and simple - NO "Zones of Control!" - but historical little 6-turn sudden-death postcard wargame about General George Patton's August 1944 coup de main attempts to grab the major French ports of Brittany, before the Germans could organize their defenses. Regimental level: 14 German units, 3 French FFI groups, and 11...
Micro game necessitated by postcard format. 11 day and night turns. SECRET Allied code-breaking possibility to get Yorktown as well as Lexington fleet carriers. Neat Port Moresby landing rule: number of surviving (of 11) Japanese transports plus UnDamaged shore-bombarding Japanese cruiser units roll 2 dice to see if they take it. Battle can continue in...
Small - 11 Allied vs. 7 German units - hex-and-counter northwest Europe 1944-45 campaign game starting with D-Day, using the factor differential plus Special Factor system of Postcard Barbarossa! and (Banner of War's beautiful edition of that,) Unternehmen Barbarossa - possible Pressed Attack *and* Desperate (No Retreat!) Defense - which makes it...
Free print and play brigade to division level game about Jubal Early's sudden out of nowhere surprise attack on Washington DC, down the *eastern* side of the Potomac River. Fords along the Monocacy River to be discovered. Bridges can be burned - across the Potomac terminally. Historical forts are present as well as a tiny but thin/tall President Lincoln...
Myitkyina was a prolonged torturous affair, but vital to the re-opening of the Ledo/Burma Road to supply our beleaguered Chinese allies. After an end-around to the north over/through a high mountain ridge, Chinese divisions and our Merrill's Marauders - 5307th Infantry Regiment - descended on the town and its airfield from the north to the surprise - shock...
Postcard Remagen, 7 March 1945 is a tense, mutually frustrating little game about First US Army attempting - historically successfully, of course - to be the first to fight across the Rhine River into Germany in March 1945. 9 US Army pieces - from one of the first M-26 Pershing platoons up to 78th Infantry Division regiments - urgently and desperately...
A couple days after the Japanese surrender the Red Army and Navy unexpectedly and prematurely launched an amphibious occupation of little Shumshu Island at the top tip of the Kurile Islands ... unsupported by our US Navy ... as an apparent stepping stone to the rest of the Kuriles and possibly even Hokkaido of the Home Islands. (Imagine a North Japan as...
The Powerlineboard analoge Spielkonsole is an analog gameconsol or gamesystem with you can played countless games with an mechanical random board and a few game material that the basic material builds, 27 games and few more variations are in the basic box included, the board has 66 fielddices one fielddice has 4 sides with colours and numbers and the...