Category: New Release

This is one of a very popular series of games from GMT covering the first months of the invasion of the USSR; units are battalions through divisions, hexes are about 5 miles, and turns are two days. The system encompasses five other games: Barbarossa: Army Group North (2000), Barbarossa: Army Group South (1996), Barbarossa: Kiev to Rostov, and Barbarossa: Crimea, with Typhoon! (1995) as the progenitor of these games. [Forum]

Bad News on the Doorstep: The Battle of Kontum, May 1972. One of the most violent battles of the Easter Offensive was fought over the town of Kontum. The central highlands town had been subject to many attacks over the years, but this was the most prolonged and unlike the earlier fights which were waged by the NLF, this was a large-scale conventional battle that included tanks and massive numbers of artillery and rocket support. The game is the latest in a series of games portraying famous battles of the Vietnam War. [Forum]

No Time For Prayer details the battles for the port and city of New Orleans; Head of Passes and Forts Jackson and St. Philip. The battles to take control of New Orleans were not easy ones. Can you do as well or better than your historical counterpart? No Time For Prayer is two games in one package, and is the latest game in the series that portrays famous naval battles of the 1860s. [Forum]

War for America is a strategic level game based on the events during the American Revolution. It is a two-player game that shows how the conflict, which began as a civil war, erupted into a world conflict with a Great Britain that was greatly isolated. It features a new ‘Action Pulse’ and ‘Initiative System’ that builds a tension-filled game narrative as each turn will vary in length. [Forum]

The Third World War, Designer Signature Edition, marks one of the largest and ambitious game undertakings to date covering not one but FOUR true wargaming classics by Frank Chadwick, faithfully remastered and updated with this all-new, deluxe edition. Hailed by many as one of the finest and playable game series covering the NATO and Warsaw Pact, Third World War brings together all four games of the series into one, comprehensive package for all to enjoy. [Forum]

Lithuania fights her oppressors, 1938 - 1941. Eighteen scenarios pit the Lithuanian Army against the Germans, Poles and Soviets, interwoven with extensive historical background. And you get 165 new die-cut pieces to play with in Lithuanian green. [Forum]

The American invasion of Leyte in the Philippines, with 46 new scenarios, 88 die-cut and silky-smooth pieces. You'll need Saipan 1944 and Marianas 1944 to play those scenarios. [Forum]

Parachutes over Crete is a complete Panzer Grenadier game based on the Battle for Crete. There are 39 scenarios based on these battles, organized into four “battle games” that allow you to play the scenarios in sequence toward your army’s operational goals. [Forum]

a set of extra pieces for use with any Second World War at Sea game: like the name says, these are islands. You place them on the Tactical Map where the scenario instructions tell you to put the island marker. The games come with a small island marker; these wonderful new islands take up the entire hex. [Forum]

Eleven new scenarios for Panzer Grenadier: Elsenborn Ridge, highlighting the actions of the British XXX Corps in the Ardennes. You'll need pieces from Panzer Grenadier: Liberation 1944. [Forum]

Napoleon’s Art of Battle: System or Genius? The rise of Napoleon Bonaparte to the French throne stemmed from a series of battlefield victories over the armies of every European dynasty. Those battles were sought by Napoleon after careful planning and maneuver to give him the edge on the contested field. This work examines the nature of that process, both in the weeks and days leading to the collision and the hours during which it was brought to fulfillment. [Forum]

This is Joseph Balkoski’s design from West End Games brought up to date with new rules and MUCH improved artwork. St. Lô marks the return of a true wargaming classic by Joseph Balkoski. St. Lô simulates the key town where the Allies would break out from the Normandy beachhead. First published in 1986. copyright Quarterdeck International & War Drum Games 2020, available direct only from Compass Games. [Forum]

Depths of Courage vol. 9: Raid on Alexandria, December 29, 1941. This solitaire play game portrays the daring WWII raid by Italian frogmen on the Royal Navy port facilities at Alexandria, Egypt. The active player takes on the role of the commanders of the three, two-man crew S.L.C. (Siluro Lenta Corsa) Maiale (Pig) class mini-submarines. You must endeavor to overcome the Allied defenses and night-time visibility to inflict as much damage as possible before being killed, captured or escaping. [Forum]

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Besides purchasing the game from the publisher, you can receive this game as a FREE print-n-play download if you donate at the Gold Level in the upcoming Consimworld Donation Drive which starts next week.

Rise of Totalitarianism is a card-driven strategy game, it reproduces the ideological conflicts and political struggles that led to the establishment of totalitarian dictatorships in Europe throughout the 1920s and 1930s. The game covers the period from 1919-1933 and is designed for three players. Each takes the role of one of the three Ideologies – Social-Democracy, Fascism and Communism – that struggled for power during the timeline of the game. Rise of Totalitarianism can be combined with Democracy under Siege in a unique long game-play experience to simulate the entire period spanning the end of the First and the outbreak of the Second World War.

Operation Unthinkable is a two player alternative history wargame intended to investigate the strategic parameters that would have been in place during the first month of operations had the Anglo-Allies and Soviets gone to war against each other starting on or about July 1945. The map illustrates the militarily significant terrain found in and around this portion of Germany in 1945 when portrayed at this scale. [Forum]

Midway: Rising Sun 1940 is a Campaign Study based on the May 1940 deployment of the U.S. Battle Fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor in order to threaten the Japanese. The study looks at how a Japanese attack on the fleet in the summer of 1940, when the American carriers still operated biplanes and Pearl Harbor's defenses had not been erected, with 10 new scenarios for Second World War at Sea: Midway Deluxe Edition. [Forum]

Caribbean Empires, Part One is an expansion set for Great War at Sea: Remember the Maine. It adds 80 new pieces (60 “long” ship pieces and 20 standard-sized ones), and uses pieces and the map from Remember the Maine. The Americans have the pre-dreadnought battleships of the Great White Fleet, plus some other designs that were considered but never built. It's a download exclusively for the Gold Club, and it's *free* for members [Forum]

Watch on the Oder: January 1945 is a hypothetical two-player game allowing the players to examine the strategic possibilities inherent in the campaign that may have taken place had Hitler decided to send the forces he used historically in the Ardennes to the eastern front. Both sides’ orders of battle are entirely historic within that context. Each of the eight game turns represents four days, and each large hex on the map equals 20 miles. The map runs from the Oder River on the west to the Riga-Pinsk line on the east. [Forum]

Balkans 1944. In late Summer 1944, the Soviets were poised to invade the Balkans after having inflicted a crushing blow to the Wehrmacht at Belarus. On 20 August, after a period of relative calm on the front, the Soviets opened up their offensive between the Black Sea and the Carpathians. Despite the German counterattacks and setbacks such as Debrecen, by Christmas Eve the Red Army was besieging Budapest, joined by the Yugoslav Partisans, and occupied Bulgaria and Romania. [Forum]

Combat! Volume Two is an add-on module for Combat! You must have Combat! to play this expansion. Various new features have been added such as: Elite Enemies in the form of the SS, a third Squad and command elements for the Americans so Platoon Actions can be gamed with multiple players; new weapons such as the STG44, the Thompson Sub-machine gun and the Springfield 1903; and much more! A fully structured campaign game consists of 6 ‘Chapters’, ‘Normandy’, ‘Pursuit’, ‘Hurtgen Forest’, ‘The Bulge’, ‘The Siegfried Line’ and ‘Germany’. [Forum]