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...
VERY simple little diminuation of Murmansk Run: Arctic Convoys to Russia, triggered by the Norwegian film KONVOI to be released in the US as The Arctic Convoy. The star of the film, SS Hestmanden/Horseman exists, docked down at Norway's Merchant Sailors' Museum in Løvika near Kristiansand. Can be played solitaire by random contact/combat selection of the...
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...
A relatively fast and simple air, sea, and land battle game focusing on the 2 decisive aircraft carrier battles just east of Guadalcanal: Eastern Solomons (24-25Aug42) and Santa Cruz (Islands, 25-27Oct42). For the Eastern Solomons scenario, 1,2, or all 3 U.S. carriers may instead be absent due to Admiral Fletcher's concern about refueling. And Japanese...
From the box: "In POWARVASION(tm), two warring players battle to capture the other's government or three major cities. Players alternate moving one of their armed forces pieces until the war is over. These fighting forces move and capture in any direction up to their maximum range. Strategy and skill are the keys to victory. Players set hidden defensive...
One of the elements of Diplomacy that makes it so unique is the writing of orders for your pieces and then the simultaneous resolution of the move for everyone. Power uses this same general concept, only minus all the devil-inspired backstabbing that makes Diplomacy what it is. In this game, players are given equal forces consisting of ships, planes and...
Power to the Meeple is a complex, euro-styled strategy game where you attempt to become the mayor of Meepletown. The primaries have just ended and up to five candidates must fight to become the winner of the general election. Whether you choose to be a punk, a Democrat, a Republican and Independent or Green party is secondary to how well you organize your...
Poznańczycy is a game depicting heavy fighting between Polish insurrectionists and German army during Greater Poland uprising of 1918–1919. The game also illustrates the struggle between European powers standing to lose influence or territory after ending of World War I that affected position of both Poland and Germany during the Posnanian War. Players...
PQ-17 is a 2-player game of World War II air-naval operations in the Barents and Norwegian Seas, where the Allied player strives to pass convoys to and from north Russia in the face of appalling weather and determined opposition from his Axis opponent. PQ-17 highlights the impact of reconnaissance, fuel, and the extreme climate without the drawbacks of a...