Category: New Release

Netherlands East Indies: 1941 to 1942 is an operational wargame of the campaign in 1941-42 in which the Japanese seized control of the Dutch colonial empire in the South Pacific. NEI is a combined naval-air-land campaign, in which operational capabilities can be decisive. The game system shows the effects of various operations over the course of a scenario. Players conduct Actions which encompass discrete combat, logistical, intelligence and other operations. The system shows the interaction of naval, air and land forces. At stake: the resources of the South Seas and the gateways to the Indian Ocean and Australia. [Forum]

Time of Wars” is a multiplayer card-driven game putting players in the rulers’ shoes of five superpowers in Eastern Europe – the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Tsardom of Russia, the Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of Sweden, and the Holy Roman Empire. [Forum]

Mont St. Jean is the French name for the Battle of Waterloo, and the Prussians called this The battle of Belle Alliance. This game came in 2 editions, an Expansion Kit edition and a Deluxe edition. For the expansion kit you must own La Bataille de Ligny and La Bataille des Quatre Bras as it only contains maps, special rules and background. The Deluxe Edition contains those items plus the counters and basic rules. [Forum]

Border States is a tactical game for 2 players, with each player taking control of one side during the American Civil War. Your aim is to win the sort of decisive victories that will influence the Border States and rally them to your cause.

The Chaco War, 1932-1935. The Chaco War was fought out by two landlocked countries, Bolivia and Paraguay in South America. On paper, the Bolivians should win handily: they enjoyed a three to one superiority in manpower against the Paraguayans. However, to reach the front the Bolivians had to overcome long lines of communication, impossible terrain and low morale. The Paraguayans, on the other hand, saw the war as a life-or-death struggle. [Forum]

The latest issue of Tabletop SPIRIT Magazine has been released. It's FREE to download as a PDF and is fully hyperlinked throughout. This issue includes a look at Combat Commander Europe.

First Punic War 264 to 241 BC is a two-player wargame of the first great military clash between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian Empire, spanning 24 years in the 3rd century BC. At this time, Rome controlled a federation of states in Italy, while Carthage was the major power of the Western Mediterranean. [Forum]

French & Indian War: This issue will dig into the details of the French & Indian War, a remote corner of the Seven Years War where small battles and campaigns determined the outcome for a continent. [Forum]

D-Day at Saipan (solitaire). Fight for the island battle made famous in the movie, The Windtalkers. Included is a campaign scenario, with smaller scenarios for the initial invasion, Death Valley, and the drive north. One mounted map board, two counter sheets (352 counters), 55 cards, full color play aid cards, and a 48-page full color rules booklet. [Forum]

The battle of Nagashino 1575 marks a tactical turning point in the wars in Japan of the Sengoku jidai (1467-1615) or Warring states; Daimyo Oda's army, made up of ashigaru teppo (infantrymen equipped with arquebuses) supported by ashigaru naga-yari and yumi (pike and bow) defeat the terrible charges of the samurai cavalry of the Takeda clan. As for the battle of Shizugatake 1583, it is unique in its kind as it takes place on the heights of a wooded mountain and begins in the middle of the night...Prepare for fast and bloody battles where tactics are essential!

Operation Iron Brain: The Siege of Beirut, June-August, 1982. For over a year the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) had bombarded Israel’s northern province of Galilee with artillery and rocket fire. On June 6, 1982 the Israeli military invaded southern Lebanon in an operation dubbed “Peace for Galilee”. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) quickly defeated the PLO’s armed forces and drove north. With new orders the IDF crossed the Litani River and drove on Beirut where the remnants of the PLO’s forces were retreating, and where most of their refugee camps were located. What ensued was an escalating conflict that threatened to engulf the entire mid-east once more in conflict and bring Lebanon to the brink of abyss of genocidal civil war. [Forum]

Equatorial Clash is a simulation of the conflict between Ecuador and Perú in July 1941. (Yes, strictly it's not "between the wars", but it's not WW2 either). This small war was the most important clash in the long series of wars, skirmishes and border conflicts between these two countries for the regions that both considered rightfully theirs. The game is centered in the main theatre of operations in the coastal zone. [Forum]

The Perry Moore design looks hard at this defiant siege (the city held out AFTER Berlin fell!). With over 300 counters and a 22" x 34" map scaled at about 650 yards per hex, a game turn represents one week. The game captures the flavor of planned, grand assaults quickly degenerating into gritty, street-level fighting, with players alternating conducting operations during the turn. Skillfully positioned reserves and sharp counterattacks can blunt massive thrusts, but at possibly a too frightfully high rate of casualties. Folks are liking the large hex size too! [Forum]

For twenty years, the "Battles from the Age of Reason" (BAR) game series has been the ultimate gaming expression of mid-eighteenth century warfare. This BAR Primer can be used with all BAR games and even with older rules sets, but is designed around the Third Edition BAR rules and ownership of Fontenoy is required for use of the "Learning Modules" sections. [Forum]

The FREE premiere issue features illuminating conversation between designers Joseph Kelly and Cole Wehrle on the design of Molly House, a bold game on a part of history too long ignored.

Operation Praying Mantis, April 18, 1988. Operation Praying Mantis was the largest US Fleet action since WWII, and helped to finally end the long and costly Iran-Iraq War. This solitaire play game has the active player taking on the role of US forces who must deliver a punishing series of blows to the Iranian forces attempting to interfere with shipping in the Persian Gulf. Can you do as well or better? [Forum]

The Battle of Fort Donelson, February 15, 1862. The capture of Fort Donelson was Ulysses S. Grant's first victory, and a defeat that cast a shadow over the Confederacy's prospects in their war to secede from the United States. Can you do as well or better than your historical counterparts? [Forum]

Test of Faith: The Arab-Israeli War of 1973 is a new game in the Operational Scale Series using the new added rules from the Doomsday Project to show this war in a way that has not been seen before. Highly playable but with an emphasis on command and equipment, OSS uses an impulse system to create a test and challenging game to play, but also with new research, plenty of historical narrative. [Forum]

Operation Theseus: Gazala 1942 is an operational level simulation of the Gazala battles of 1942, which took place during May and June 1942. The game is intended for two players but is also suitable for solitaire and team play. The goal for the Axis player is to hit the Commonwealth forces hard and to seize specific victory locations, thereby opening the door to Egypt. The Commonwealth player wants to prevent this from happening, thereby eliminating the Axis potential for further offensives. The game is played in a semi-interactive way and keeps both players involved all the time. [Forum]

Donnerschlag is a two player game which is playable in one sitting, covering the period of Dec 12-23, 1942 when "Unternehmen Wintergewitter" was in progress. This was the code name for a relief attack by Heeresgruppe Don to free the trapped 6th Army in Stalingrad. [Forum]