Category: New Release

an alternate history simulation of battles associated with a Communist invasion of continental USA. Live Free or Die is a game set consisting of three independent games: Asian Invasion captures the Peoples' Asian Alliance landings in California; Remember the Alamo covers the Organization of Central American States drive into Texas; and Southern Discomfort focuses on a Warsaw Pact invasion of Florida and Georgia. [Forum]

CSS The Little Land – The Battle For Novorossiysk is the first game in the Nemesis series covering company level battles on the Eastern Front. With added special rules to cover the unique type of warfare on the Eastern Front, players will battle over the fate of the Kuban with tanks, amphibious invasions, paratroopers, naval ships and artillery. [Forum]

Depths of Courage vol. 10: Raid on New York is a solitaire play game on the planned but never implemented Italian mini-sub and frogmen raid on New York Harbor in 1943. The Italian fleet submarine that was to ferry the mini-sub and frogmen, the Leonardo da Vinci, was sunk in the Bay of Biscay while training for the raid. It is one of the intriguing "what ifs" of WWII that board games are perfect for exploring to see if this was indeed feasible or fantasy. [Forum]

Blue Water Navy covers the war at sea, air, close-ashore and low-earth orbit from the Kola Peninsula in Northern Russia to the Mediterranean Sea and West over the Atlantic Ocean to the United States and Cuba. The game models the full order of battle that could be expected in 1980's wartime, from multi-regiment Soviet Tu-22 Backfire bombers to multiple US carrier groups. [Forum]

a two-player game simulating the War of the Austrian Succession, 1741 – 1748. One player represents the Austrian interest represented by the Austrians and those powers in Europe faithful to the original agreement, (“the Pragmatic Alliance”). The other player represents the challengers to the Austrians, the Bavarian rival for the Imperial title, Charles Albert and his supporters, primarily the Bourbon rulers of France and Spain intermittently joined by Prussia (“the Bourbons”). This game features a mounted game map and continues the series pioneered and excellently portrayed by Don Herndon’s No Peace Without Spain! [Forum]

This fourth expansion to Table Battles is on a topic folks have been asking for since the base game was released: the English Civil War. The six battles in this set are Edgehill, both battles of Newbury, Naseby, Tippermuir, and Aldearn. [Forum]

a new edition of an old favorite. British-Japanese carrier battles in the Indian Ocean, 1942. With 24 scenarios, one full-sized map and 280 die-cut playing pieces (100 long, 180 standard size). [Forum]

The French campaign in Tunisia, 1942-43, with 88 new die-cut playing pieces and 12 new scenarios. An expansion for Panzer Grenadier: An Army at Dawn. [Forum]

The Italian invasion of Abyssinia, 1935-36, with forty scenarios, eight maps and 517 playing pieces. Blackshirts, Alpini and the Ethiopian Imperial Guard [Forum]

The Spanish-American naval war of 1898, with all the actions that took place in the Caribbean Sea. A complete Great War at Sea boxed game with 45 scenarios, two maps and 240 playing pieces [Forum]

The Crusades: Europe was nearing the peak of the High Middle Ages in the late eleventh century. A growing population supported not only rapid expansion of arable land, but the growth of cities that in turn fostered trade and the arts. In addition to massive cultural changes, the wars had an enormous impact on the conduct of warfare. Joseph Miranda covers that impact in the context of the period's battles and campaigns. The magazine is richly illustrated with maps, diagrams, weapons, and images of people and events. [Forum]

this app for the PC covers Four Battles of the Spanish Civil War, Ebro, Teruel, Guadalajara and Merida or La Serena. Players can play as Nationalists or Republican. Unit size is battalion for infantry and cavalry, company or battalion for armoured cars or tanks, batteries for artillery and squadron for Aircrafts.

a solitaire strategy game where the time is 1171, and dynastic disputes in Arab-occupied Egypt have spilled over into medieval Nubia – setting the stage for its violent decline and fall (1172-1504). You play the Samet (samet) or Prime Minister of medieval Nubia, advising the Uru (ourou, King) on how best to save your Black, literate, Christian civilization from pagan plunder and Muslim defilement. [Forum]

recreates the Battle of Albemarle Sound, May 5, 1864. Thunder Upon the Water details the battle of Albemarle Sound fought on May 5th, 1864. Via the sound’s numerous ports Confederate blockade runners brought badly needed supplies for the rebel nation. In April a Confederate army supported by the new ironclad CSS Albemarle, captured the Union held port of Plymouth. Encouraged by this success, Confederate General Robert Hoke planned an offensive to recapture the city of Bern, held by Union forces for nearly two years. [Forum]

a squad-level tactical game that simulates the battles for the Donetsk Airport in the Ukraine 2014-2015. You will control squads, RPG and machine gun teams, BTRs, T-64 tanks, snipers and more, as you attempt to gain control of the airport. [Forum]

recreates the 22 December 1790 assault on the Ottoman fortress by a Russian army led by the capable and dynamic Alexander Suvorov. This famous Russian victory against overwhelming odds inspired an unofficial national anthem, Let the Thunder of Victory Sound. [Forum]

Poland Defiant was originally produced in limited quantities as “Plan West” by 3 Crown Games. Revolution Games has updated the game with new art, testing, and development. Poland Defiant covers the first 10 days of the Polish campaign, September 1st to 10th, 1939. This was the period when the Polish armies met the German forces on the open terrain of Poland and the mobility and firepower of mechanized warfare was first demonstrated on a large scale. The Poles must hold on to key cities and the Germans must keep to a rapid time schedule, so the game is both balanced and tense. [Forum]

a two-player card driven strategic board game wherein the players assume the roles of the RED (Communist Forces) and the WHITE (reactionary forces). This epic conflict resulted in the toppling of three centuries of Romanov rule and its replacement by a totalitarian communist ideology. Set against a backdrop of the vast and spectacular Russian countryside, only the Russian winter could surpass the brutality of the fighting. Belligerents included the various Russian republics, anarchist and independence movements, adherents of the old regime, foreign contingents of volunteers and the overt intervention of the Major Powers. [Forum]