- The Battle of Armageddon: Deluxe Edition Review
- Phantom Fury First Look [video]
- Russia: fighting in Syria?
- No Motherland Without Replay
- Yaah! Magazine, Issue 15 (Flying Pig Games Preorder)
many articles and featuring the insert game, Caucasus Burning: The Nagorno-Karabahk War, 2020. This is an operational design by Greg Porter covering the Nagorno-Karabahk War of 2020. You'll command formations of T-90 tanks, BMP-equipped mechanized infantry, drones, cruise missiles, and squadrons of attack aircraft as you simulate the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which took place in the fall of 2020. [Forum]
- Strategy & Tactics Quarterly, Issue 16: China – The Next War (new from Decision Games)
Featuring a map poster! China – The Next War: China has been expanding its reach economically, politically, and militarily. The US remains its chief adversary on every level, but what strategies will be most effective in containing the burgeoning superpower? China’s long history gives it a wealth of political-military principles to direct its likely moves; the failure to understand them could doom its opposition. This is an examination of the potential for war, and of its disparate battlefields in the air, on land, at and under the sea, in space, and in the digital world. [Forum]
- Down in Flames: Locked-On Review [video]
- Zurmat Preview [video]
- Blue Water Navy: The War at Sea AAR
- District Commander: ZNO (new from Hollandspiele)
District Commander: ZNO centers on insurgent and counter-insurgent operations and tactics during the Algerian War of Independence. The game deals unflinchingly with the weapons with which this war was fought – terror cells, double agents, the forced resettlement of ethnic and religious groups – prompting uneasy questions about how governments obtain, hold, and use power. [Forum]
- No Motherland Without Review
- South China Sea Reprint First Look [video]
- Israeli Air Force Leader Review
- Modern Naval Battles: Global Warfare Replay
- Indian Ocean Region First Look [video]
- Indian Ocean Review First Look
- Indian Ocean Region (new from Compass Games)
simulates possible future conflicts, circa 2025, from their political beginnings to military endings with the same game mechanics as used in South China Sea. Players assume the roles of nations or groups of nations and deal cards in multiple rounds of play each representing three to seven weeks to advance their separate agendas. Each card play might trigger armed conflict. If violence comes to pass, the time scale compresses to three to seven hours per turn and players deploy their military units to resolve matters by force. Those forces include: individual capital ships, pairs or triples of smaller vessels, squadrons of aircraft, and battalions of ground troops all waging war at the far end of logistical shoestrings. [Forum]
- South China Sea – Reprint (new from Compass Games)
South China Sea (SCS) provides an integrated political-military simulation of near future contention and conflict around the South China Sea. Players take on the roles of China, the United States, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam. They simulate current political tensions through card play and structured negotiation keyed to real world events in an effort to “move the needle” to their side. Unfortunately, the cards with the greatest chance of moving that needle, such as Chinese Coast Guard and U.S. Freedom of Navigation Exercise, are also most likely to trigger armed conflict. If and when that happens, play transitions to traditional hex-and-counter format on a map scaled at 45 nautical miles (nmi) per hex and turns of 3-7 hours. [Forum]
- Sniper Kill Confirmed (Compass Games Preorder)
Sniper Kill Confirmed by Jay Kirkpatrick is a card-driven solitaire wargame. YOU take the role of a sniper and his spotter in search of your target and completing your mission. Not only may single missions be played, but a campaign is also possible consisting of ten missions. As each mission is completed, you will accumulate kill points which may be used to upgrade your weapons or obtain additional equipment. [Forum]
- Next War: Vietnam Play Summary [video]