Category: Kickstarter

Two games in the Duel Pack!
Border States is a tactical game for 2 players where each player takes control of one side. You will have to fight battles and win crushing
victories in order to influence the Border States and try to rally them to your side.
Saladin is a game intended to recreate the famous battles of Hattin and Arsuf where Saladin was opposed to the crusaders troops of Guy de Lusignan and then to those of Richard the Lionheart. With Saladin take charge of one of the armies that fought each other. Order your horsemen to harass the crusaders ranks or launch a devastating charge with your heavily armored knights.

Steve Carey's classic solitaire game on the battle for the Mediterranean theater from 1940-1942 is now available on Kickstarter. The game plays in a single hour and has been deluxified with all new deluxe components. [Forum]

Keep up the Fire! Deluxe is now available on Kickstarter until February 27. A reprint and deluxification of the original VPG game on the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. Designed by John Welch. A solitaire gem.

Tarawa 1943 is a solitaire, card driven game on the invasion of Japanese controlled Tarawa by the 2nd Marine Division. Each turn the USMC player will activate one of his battalions (there are 8 in the game). The Japanese turn begins with the flip of a card. From this the USMC player will face fire attacks, banzai attacks, bunkers, cross fires, infiltration, and more. The card engine will ensure an ever changing game and no two will play the same. [Forum]

The Pratzen: Austerlitz 1805 is a two-player board game that portrays the fighting on and around the Pratzen Heights at the Battle of Austerlitz. The battle was fought between the French forces of Napoleon Bonaparte and a larger allied army composed of Austrian and Russian forces. The battle is considered to be one of the most important and decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars. [Forum]

For this new edition of Rommel in the Desert, Columbia Games has taken great care to remake this classic game better than ever. The new Rommel map is 17x34 inches (taller than previous editions). All components have been upgraded down to the game box itself. One of the finest block games every published, don't miss out on this all new edition! [Forum]

[Ending Soon!] Assault – Red Horizon 41 is the first volume in a planned series of tactical level wargames in which players lead historical units into battle during Operation Barbarossa (June through October 1941). A Clash of Titans – the German Wehrmacht and the Soviet Army fighting one another in a life and death struggle with infantry, artillery and armored units. Play it as a single scenario or with our unique campaign system. [watch designer intro video]

No Motherland Without: North Korea in Crisis and Cold War is a card-driven strategy game for one or two players simulating tensions between the DPRK and the West from 1953 to present day. As the Kim Regime (DPRK), one player will be seeking a nuclear deterrent to invasion, preventing uprising, improving infrastructure and purging elites to prevent a coup. As the West, players will exert pressure on the regime. [Forum]

a card-driven boardgame adventure of true pirate history for 1 to 4 players. From Blackbeard to Sir Henry Morgan, history's most fiendish freebooters come to life in this greed-filled game of strategy and adventure.

The Darin Leviloff classic solitaire game is getting a deluxification from Worthington Publishing. The game is an update of the VPG's Soveit Dawn game. The game allows gamers to play out the Russian Revolution 1918-1922. [Forum]

a massive 68" x 44" neoprene wargaming mat for the entire EastFront WWII series by Columbia Games. The ultimate game accessory to create a fully deluxe treatment of the classic game series. [Forum]

An easily accessible World War III war and strategy game with a paranormal twist. The Long Road depicts a Third World War sparked not by conflicting ideologies, but rather the back-stage maneuvering of paranormal entities with their own set of agendas. Agendas that are fleshed out in the game's 16 scenarios. [Forum]

Devil Boats: PT Boats in the Solomons is a solitaire, tactical-level wargame. You, as commander, will lead a squadron of 4 US Navy PT boats on nightly missions against Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands during the summer months of 1943. [Forum]

MacGowan & Lombardy's THE GREAT WAR fast-playing card game. Two players use modern technologies, combined arms tactics, and force multipliers to win World War One in an hour.

Help Arrives! is a tactical strategy game, the fifth in the War Storm Series (WSS), covering the Spanish Civil War and the international units that participated in the conflict: CTV, international brigades, the Condor Legion and Soviet aid and much more. A realistic simulation hex & counter wargame with 800+ counters! [Forum]

Airships: North Pole Quest places players in the year 1924, as various nations compete for prestige and scientific knowledge by seeing who can get an "Airship" to the North Pole first. Each player will represent a specific historical captain and manager of the Airship operation, working with engineers and designers, upgrading the crew, and selecting preliminary flights to raise financial capital. Specific airships have their historical capabilities that each player must use to his or her advantage, with beautiful 1/2000 scale models as pieces. And check out the map! It's a dual level system with a rotating band to handle weather patterns in different parts of the world...because weather is a key factor for success or disaster.

a quick-playing, grand strategy game with operational elements that could recreate all the Napoleonic Wars (1805-1815) in just one evening. Counters represent historical fleets and armies, being 18-25 ships or 30-50,000 men every strength point. Although not an event-driven board game in the classic sense, Event cards are used to recreate historical situations that could imply some modifications in the general rules of the game, or even change the fate of a game dramatically. [Forum]

This is the 6th Edition printing of Mark McLaughlin's War and Peace. This edition incorporates all known errata and updates from the previous printing. Mark McLaughlin's classic game on Napoleonic conquest is here, revitalized and enhanced with completely updated graphics and production, all new campaigns covering all of Napoleon's career, and a completely revamped rule book that incorporates all known errata, and the best official variants and optional rules along with a few new surprises. War and Peace will be given the deluxe treatment in this re-issue. [Forum]

Cradle of Civilization is a pair of games that play through the ancient civilizations of the Near East and the fall of the Persian Empire, SUMERIA TO PERSIA and ALEXANDER vs DARIUS. Both games are included in this premium package (mounted mapboard and "thick" counters) that allows two to six players determine the fate of the Ancient Near East. In one game civilizations rise, while in the second game, two players battle over whether the great Persian Empire will survive or perish. Both games use simple mechanics to make them quick-playing and to portray a period feel to the players. [Forum]

FINAL DAY! ATO announces their first kickstarter, to reprint their popular "Buffalo Wings" issue, one of the fastest "sold outs" in company history. Buffalo Wings is an 'entry level' game in the "Fighting Wings" series of air combat games by J.D. Webster covering the two wars between Finland and USSR. The upgrade will redo the map and counters to match the style of the recently released "Wings of the Motherland," and in fact the map will connect to Motherland for larger and different scenarios. The upgrade will also include a full edit on the rules, incorporating system developments and clarifications, and has some sweet stretch goals available, to include EVERY major type of plane used in the campaigns. Now on kickstarter, through July 31. [Forum]