Spires of the Kremlin: The game covers "Operation Typhoon," the Axis attack toward Moscow during October, November and December 1941, together with the Soviet counter offensive through 15 January 1942. With the appearance of this second game in the series, the opportunity has been taken to add to and improve the basic system, while retaining its...
Square Deal is actually a collection of 14 card games that are played with a regular deck of cards except that they are SQUARE. Square cards are ideal for games that are played on a grid such as 5x5 (like Virus vs. Virus), 7x7 (Trapped), 6x6 (Chesstego) and 3x3 (Tic Tac Ten). The square cards not only fit better on most tables, they also lend a symmetry to...
Battle is developed primarily for those people who are just starting to play wargames. It is based on the classic mechanics of wargames, which implies the presence of a playing field, divided into hexagons (with different types of terrain), game pieces reflecting combat units and the use of the so-called "Battle Table". Combat pieces-tokens move around the...
The original edition came out in 1963 in a double-size box. The large box was nearly twice the area of a traditional AH box. Later the game came out in a traditional-size box. A second edition with clarified rules was issued in 1974 with the same standard size box but thinner. The rules are fairly straightforward. The strategies are extremely deep....
Stalingrad ‘42 is a division-level game on the Axis 1942 summer offensive towards Stalingrad and the Caucasus. Historically, this epic struggle lasted for 6 months and saw the Axis armies reach the Volga and the Caucasus Mountains. But Soviet resistance stiffened and final victory eluded the German army at Stalingrad and in the Caucasus. The ensuing...
Stalingrad Hall n°4 is an ideal introduction to wargaming. The game, through two scenarios, recreates fighting in the Stalingrad "Krasnay Barrikady" (Red Barricades) building in Autumn 1942. Game sequences are divided in turns : A-Reinforcements B-Events C-Activation phase D-Close combats E-End turn The German plays first by activating one of his 3 squads....
"If we do not stop retreating, we shall be left without bread, without fuel, without metal, without raw materials, without factories, without railways." [Stavka Order No. 227, July 28, 1942] Stalingrad: Pivot on the Volga is a two-player game about the military drama that unfolded in southern Russia during the last half of 1942, culminating with the...
Stalingrad Pocket: The Wehrmacht's Greatest Disaster - The German Wehrmacht stands at the pinnacle of its last season of blitzkrieg. After battling for the capture of Stalingrad through most of the Autumn, the German army holds the bulk of the city. Holding the extended flanks of the German advance are Axis allied troops of dubious quality. Opposing those...
"Stalingrad Pocket: 2nd Edition – The Wehrmacht's Greatest Disaster", covers the Soviet counteroffensive and the German operations to hold the pincers apart and (if that fails) to relieve the Stalingrad pocket. Soviet play requires the use of a ponderous and fragile weapon of great size (the Red Army of 1942). German play requires sabre-like use of mobile...
Star Heroes is an outer space exploration and galactic conquest trading card game set 500 years into the future and developed by a spaceflight expert who has launched five payloads into space to the International Space Station, logging a total of 1814 days in space, orbiting Earth 28,687 times, and traveling 724,466,853 nautical miles around our world. The...
Stars and Bars is a wargame that recreates on an operational scale this Civil War battle [Oct 8, 1862, the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky. Union Gen. Buell against the Confederate Army of Mississippi and Gen Bragg]. Historically this was a victory for the South, although at a price of very heavy casualties. Published in The Wargamer Magazine # 30 with...