- Paper Wars, Issue 99: Assault on Tobruk (new from Compass Games)
Assault on Tobruk, Rommel Triumphant, 20 June, 1942. From march to December of 1941 the forces of Rommel’s Afrika Korp surrounded the Allied held fortress port of Tobruk on the Libyan coast of North Africa, but were unable to subdue it. On the 20th of June in 1942 Rommel got another chance at a cut off Tobruk as the Allies retreated from the loss of the Gazala line battles. This time Tobruk fell, and it did so in a swirling action lasting less than a single day. [Forum]
- Kind of a Drag: Operation Durango, 1967 (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Kind of a Drag: Operation Durango/Frisco City, April 1967. General Westmoreland put forward in the Fall of 1966 a bold plan to invade the southern “pan handle” of North Vietnam as well as neighboring areas of Laos through which the Communist’s supply line (dubbed the “Ho Chi Minh Trail”) ran. The plan was to take and hold these areas to interdict the Communist’s support to the South, as well as compel the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) to do battle in the open against the US and ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) to take back their occupied homeland and supply lines. [Forum]
- War Diary Magazine, Issue 18 (new from Roy Matheson)
- THE WINTER SOLDIERS: The Battles of Princeton and Trenton, 1776-1777 by John Heim
- BROTHERHOOD & UNITY: A Review by John D. Burtt
- RETURN TO THE ROCK: Corregidor, 1945 by Michael Rinella
- A LEADERSHIP VARIANT FOR THE NAPOLEONIC 20 SERIES by George Kasnic
- ADVENTURES IN DIE-CUTTING by Andy Loakes
- ON GAMING: Alternate History and Game Design by Lewis Pulsipher
- TAKING CAVALRY FOR A RIDE: Optional Cavalry Employment in the Atlanta Campaign by Paul Comben
- THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN: Rule Clarifications
- Bismarck Solitaire Bookgame (new from Worthington Publishing)
The Bookgame Bismarck Solitaire puts you in command of the German ships Bismarck, Prinz Eugen, and U-boat support as they take on a determined Royal Navy that has one goal, Sink the Bismarck! You have 8 missions of varying objectives and difficultly. Each mission gives you 3 tries to best the Royal Navy. This gives you a total of 24 games. Some missions require you to find convoys, others expect you to sink a few British warships, while some just hope your ships can survive the sortie. [Forum]
- Panzer Grenadier: The Deluge (new from Avalanche Press)
- Kharkov Battles: Before & After Fall Blau (new from Compass Games)
Kharkov Battles uses the Fall Blau basic rules to cover the Second & Third Battles of Kharkov. The game can be played standalone or can be combined with Fall Blau to extend the campaign. Given the nature of the covered battles, this game has a shorter playtime and smaller space requirements making it an easier intro into the system used by Fall Blau. [Forum]
- La Bataille de Berlin 1813 (new from Marshal Enteprises)
The game recreates Napoleon’s efforts to capture Berlin in the summer of 1813 and knock the Prussians out of the Sixth Coalition. The game includes three different major battles: Blankenfeld; Gross Beeren; and Dennewitz which pit the Prussians under Prince Von Bulow and their Russian and Swedish allies against the French Imperial forces under first Marshal Oudinot and then Marshal Ney. [Forum]
- SWWAS: Caspian Princes (new from Avalanche Press)
- Second Triumvirate: Anthony, Caesar & Lepidus (new from Day 40 Games)
- Santander ’37 (new from SNAFU Design)
- Westward Rails (new from Hollandspiele)
This new train game from designer Travis D. Hill (Union Station, Reunification) harkens back to the feel of the classic cube rails games of the aughties. Players win shares of railroads at auction, and any shareholder is able to build track for that company across a point-to-point map - one that’s been beautifully realized by artist Donal Hegarty. [Forum]
- Strategy & Tactics, Issue 331: On to Baghdad! (new from Decision Games)
On to Baghdad! is an operational-strategic level, two-player wargame covering the campaign in Mesopotamia and Persia in World War I. Players control either the Allies representing the British-Indian, Russians pro-Allied Persians, Kuwaitis, and pro-Allied Partisans or the Central Powers representing the Ottoman Turks (or Turks), Germans, Austro-Hungarian, pro-CP Persians, and pro-CP Partisans. The Allied objective is to gain strategic control of Mesopotamia and Persia, including oil resources and critical cities. The Central Powers objective is to retain control and threaten British interests in the Persian Gulf and India. [Forum]
- Ram vs. Stag: The Battle of Bir el Gubi (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Ram vs. Stag: The Battle of Bir el Gubi, November 19, 1941. Ram vs. Stag is a low complexity war game simulation of the first battle fought near the village and oasis at Bir el Gubi in Libya. In response to General Erwin Rommel’s bold offensive the British-led Allied forces launched a counter offensive to defeat the Axis forces that were besieging Tobruk. Dubbed Operation Crusader, the Allied attack was launched on November 18th and caught the Axis by surprise. [Forum]
- Horse & Musket Annual #3 (new from Hollandspiele)
The third annual scenario book for Sean Chick's Horse & Musket series brings twenty new battles to your table drawn from throughout the eras covered in the first five volumes. Ownership of the base game plus one or more expansions is required; ownership of all five will enable you to enjoy all twenty scenarios. [Forum]
- ASL Action Pack #17 (new from Multi-Man Publishing)
- Panzer Grenadier: Black Panthers (new from Avalanche Press)
Black Panthers: Black Lives that Mattered is a special expansion for Panzer Grenadier: Elsenborn Ridge. It has 24 new die-cut and silky-smooth playing pieces for the Black Panthers under their distinctive insignia, and two dozen scenarios based on the epic battles of the 761st and other African-American units. [Forum]
- The Grass Crown (new from Hollandspiele)
This second game in the Shields & Swords Ancients series recreates ten battles spanning nearly three hundred years of Roman history. As was the case with the first game, With It Or On It (2019), The Grass Crown is a fresh, innovative taken on familiar material. The primary unit of maneuver is a "Wing" which itself consists of ten or so individual counters. [Forum]
- SWWAS Coral Sea Playbook Edition (new from Avalanche Press)
- Mahoning Monstrosity (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Mahoning Monstrosity: Monsters Attack Youngstown, Ohio Summer 1977. It is the summer of 1977 and out of the PCB laden depths of the Mahoning River rises a hideous monster to threaten downtown Youngstown, Ohio. Can you mobilize Steel city’s finest and the Ohio National Guard, all aided or hindered by local personalities, to defend the city and its populace? Learn and enjoy this whimsical historical gaming salute to Youngstown as it battles a mythical monster during the summer before the real ones came to the fore that fateful October. [Forum]
- Horse & Musket: Tides of Revolution (new from Hollandspiele)
The long-awaited fourth volume in Sean Chick's Horse & Musket series shifts the scene to a period of social upheaval, peopled by radical revolutionaries, dominated by two world-changing events – the American War for Independence, and the overthrow of the Bourbon monarchy, resulting in the War of the First Coalition. THIS IS AN EXPANSION. You need "Horse & Musket: Dawn of an Era" to play this game. [Forum]