- Patton’s Vanguard (new from Revolution Games)
includes two quick-playing, four turn scenarios depicting the German attempt to drive the Americans from the German border at the Battle of Arracourt, 1944. The first scenario pits two inexperienced German panzer brigades against a confident and veteran Combat Command A. The second scenario pits the experienced German 11th Panzer Division against Combat Command A and the newly arrived Combat Command B, now hampered by restricted fuel supplies. In each scenario both players will be challenged to determine whether it is better to simply attack, or spend valuable time attempting to maneuver in continually changing weather conditions before attacking. Fast, furious, and chess-like, this is a game for players who love concentrated action! [Forum]
- Battles on the Ice (new from Hollandspiele)
The third game in the Shields & Swords II series tackles two unusual engagements -- Battle at Lake Peipus, 1242 and Battle of Karuse, 1270. In both battles, the "invincible" Livonian Order, an autonomous branch of the Teutonic Knights, met their enemies atop a frozen body of water, and in both cases, they suffered a humiliating defeat. [Forum]
- Gorizia 1916 (new from Europa Simulazioni)
a low-medium complexity tactical game on the campaign conducted by the Italian forces against Austria, during August 1916. This is a mini-monster, very playable game with many hundreds of die-cut counters, one 22"x34" map with large hexes representing the theater of the Isonzo River, at a scale of 900m per hex, 1 day per game-turn. Each unit counter represents a battalion, or an artillery battery. The game system is the same as its predecessor, Strafexpedition 1916. [Forum]
- Early Glories (new from VaeVictis)
- Modern War, Issue 30: Enduring Freedom (new from Decision Games)
the insert game, Enduring Freedom, is an operational-level solitaire simulation of the US-Coalition invasion of Afghanistan in the wake of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. The player controls the forces of the Coalition (US, NATO, and the Northern Alliance). The game system controls the opposing Islamist forces (Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and Pakistani Volunteers). The objective of the game is for the Coalition to destroy Al Qaeda and establish the basis for a stable Afghanistan such that a new civil war will not break out later. The game covers the period of October 2001 (the initial US invasion) to March 2002 (the conclusion of Operation Anaconda). [Forum]
- Rise of Totalitarianism (new from Calvinus Games)
- Horse & Musket (new from Hollandspiele)
Horse & Musket is a simple tactical game system covering musket warfare from Vienna in 1683 to Appomattox in 1865. This first volume in the series, Dawn of an Era, covers warfare in the west from 1683-1719, which saw matchlock muskets and pikes give way to flintlocks and bayonets. Ranks became thinner and battles more linear as firepower and infantry discipline became the deciding factors. [Forum]
- Fleeting Glory (new from H&S Games)
- Sails & Powder: Cape Finisterre Expansion (new from 3SIXES)
- Soldier Emperor (new from Avalanche Press)
Between 1803 and 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte lent his name to an entire age. Soldier Emperor covers the entire sweep of the Napoleonic Wars from 1803 to 1815, as fleets and armies clash from Ireland to Persia. Military, economic and political factors come together in a game playable to completion in just a few hours. [Forum]
- Paper Wars, Issue 85: Russia Falling (new from Compass Games)
featuring the insert game Russia Falling: The Coming Civil War, by Ty Bomba. The game enables two players to play the first year of a hypothesized near-future post-Putin civil war in Russia. The map covers the core area of the Russian ethnic heartland, from St. Petersburg in the north to Tula in the south, and from Smolensk in the west to Nizhny Novgorod in the east, at 16 miles per hex. [Forum]
- Saipan: The Bloody Rock (new from Compass Games)
Saipan: The Bloody Rock will be the first game to utilize the new Company Scale System (CSS) by Adam Starkweather. Along with numerous historical scenarios and campaign game, there is a bonus hypothetical game that lets the players decide how to defend Saipan and how to invade it. The American player receives the same historical forces but now has the opportunity to devise his own landing schedule over one of 25 beaches. The Japanese player gets to prepare his own defenses; set up pillboxes, lay mines and deploy 6” naval guns etc. Can you do better than history? [Forum]
- Bloody Dawns: The Iran-Iraq War (new from High Flying Dice Games)
a two-player grand strategic level card driven wargame depicting the struggle between Iraq and Iran from September 1980 to August 1988. This terrible confrontation between Saddam Hussein and Ayatollah Khomeini drastically changed the geopolitical balance of power in the Gulf and was the last Total War of the 20th Century. Its events still shape and influence those of today. [Forum]
- B-17 Flying Fortress Leader (new from Dan Verssen Games)
part of the popular solitaire Leader series of games. You select and command Bomber Groups and Fighter Groups belonging to the US 8th Air Force as you carry out a strategic bombing campaign against German Occupied Europe. As you plan and carry out your missions, the game's AI controls the German Air Defenses, Technology improvements, and allocation of resources to the European, Mediterranean, and Russian campaigns. B-17 is a Dean Brown design. He has worked closely with us to make sure B-17 is faithful to the Air Leader series, while at the same time having its own unique flavor! [Forum]
- Sails & Powder: Trafalgar 1805 (new from 3SIXES)
- Breakout to Paris (new from High Flying Dice Games)
depicts the third German Aisne offensive, Operation Blücher May-June, 1918. It followed Operation Michel in March. General Erich Ludendorff was determined to win the war, and these offensives were Germany's last attempts. Ludendorff’s earlier Operation Michel was a near catastrophe for the Allies and Operation Blücher would be just as dire and another German near miss with the German offensive ending within hours of reaching Paris. [Forum]
- Optimates et Populares (new from Hollandspiele)
a political game for two players, in which players fight for the primacy and dominance of their ideology. Central to the game is Political Will. Each action you take will cost you some Political Will. The more you accomplish, the more anger it incites in the opposition and its supporters - and so, each action you take also cedes Political Will to your opponent. This creates a dynamic tension in which each player must balance pursuit of his own goals against the backlash that's just around the corner. [Forum]
- N: The Napoleonic Wars (new from White Dog Games)
a high level, grand strategic solitaire game on the turbulent decades from 1792 to 1815, when Europe was convulsed by the French Revolution and the wars of French Emperor Napoléon I. N is not a detailed, tactical historical simulation, but is designed as a fun, challenging game illustrating the general course of the wars and their salient historical themes. [Forum]
- Fall Of The Third Reich (new from Compass Games)
by award-winning designer Ted S. Raicer, covering the dramatic last two years of WWII in Europe, as the Western Allies and the Soviet Union fight against fierce German resistance to bring down the Thousand-Year Reich. Two large hex maps cover Europe from France to Central Russia, and Leningrad to Sicily. Units are Armies, Corps, and in a few cases, Divisions. There are twelve two-month turns making for a highly-playable gaming experience. [Forum]
- Pericles: The Peloponnesian Wars (new from GMT Games)
a ‘sandbox’ (unscripted) wargame that uses elements from the Golden Geek best Wargame of 2015, Churchill, to simulate war as the extension of politics by other means over the ENTIRE period of conflict described in Thucydides classic history on the Peloponnesian wars. Pericles is a four-player game, where two teams of Athenian and Spartan factions fight for Hegemony in 5th Century Greece. [Forum]