Category: New Release

The Battle of Stoney Creek, June 6, 1813. This is the seventh and final game in the Battles for Canada Series. The game portrays the British, Canadian and First Nation surprise attack against the invading US forces. The battle was a pivotal event in the fight for the Niagara Peninsula. [Forum]

Are you ready to Govern Rome from its infancy, and lead it to its eternal glory? In this game we showcase a rarely depicted epoch, rich in mythos, legendary figures and pivotal moments. In the game you will experience everything Rome had to endure, from the most famous historical events, to the many many wars it fought. [Forum]

Issue 23 of War Diary magazine has been released and features two articles on South Mountain games and history by Jon Southard and John Burtt, as well as the second part of Art Lupinacci's examination of Russia Besieged and The Russian Campaign. [Forum]

featuring the insert game, Second Fallujah, by Steve Lieske. This two-player (solitaire adaptable) grand-tactical design covers the fighting from the start of the main Coalition assault on 8 November 2004 through 14 November, when most of the city had been secured. [Forum]

Vive L’Empereur is an exciting, solitaire wargame depicting the Battle of Waterloo fought on June 18, 1815. This is a hex-and-counter war game that uses a chit-pull system to generate random force activations for both sides. The Anglo-Allied and Prussian forces (the forces of the solitaire side) move and conduct combat using random instructions from the game’s Activation Table. [Forum]

By Iron and Blood is a two-player wargame depicting the final, decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War. The Battle of Koniggratz (or Sadowa) occurred on July 3, 1866 and involved over 450,000 men from multiple European nations and principalities. The battle would decide the destiny of Europe, determining whether Prussia or Austria would form a united Germany. [Forum]

Sleepwalkers: Imperial Rivalries and the Great War is a diplomacy simulation. Up to five players represent the major European powers Germany, France, Great Britain, Austria-Hungary and Russia in the period from around 1900 to 1918. Struggling for prestige, they impose protective tariffs, arm themselves, expand and form alliances. Historical events such as the Dreyfus Affair, the Boer War, the Berlin-Baghdad Railway, the Russo-Japanese War and the "Black Hand" increase tensions. Crises are inevitable and force every government to choose between mediation and mobilization.

Against the Odds Magazine is now shipping their latest XL sized "Annual," presents the 1917 Battle of Arras, which is better known to history as "Bloody April." With roots to designs like "Chennault's First Fight" and "Forlorn Hopes," designer Paul Rohrbaugh focuses on air operations but provides context with their impact on the ground war. The Cruelest Month will give you a full selection of aerial operations, including balloon busting, ground attack, bombing, and the all-important photo-recon and artillery observation missions, plus the fighter dogfights that center around protecting or stopping all the others. [Forum]

The Great War, designed by veteran designer and World War 1 historian Dana Lombardy of Lombardy Studios, takes the vast conflict that shook the world and distills it down into a fast, dynamic card game playable by two players, or even as a solitaire game! [Forum]

Eagles in the Sky is a 2-player card-based game on plane-to-plane warfare during the last year and a half of the First World War. Players each command a "flight" of 1 to 6 aircraft during any of several types of missions, including Patrols, photo recon and even balloon busting. The game includes all of the major types of aircraft active on the Western Front in that period, including the Fokker triplane, Sopwith Camel, SPAD XIII, and Fokker DVII. [Forum]

A Brilliant Fight: The Battle of Queenston Heights, October 13, 1812. A key element in the American campaign to take control Canada was securing the Niagara Peninsula in 1812. [Forum]

A Most Fearful Sacrifice is an epic two-player wargame with over 15 square feet of playing area and 526 playing pieces depicting the fighting that occurred during all three days of this decisive clash. The game utilizes a new ACW operating system called the Black Swan system, which is closely related to the popular Blind Swords game system first introduced in the game The Devil’s To Pay! by Tiny Battle Publishing. [Forum]

Mr. President is a solitaire game about governing as the President of the United States in the early 21st century. It's not an election game. It begins after you've been elected. It's about sitting in The Chair and trying to advance your agenda while navigating ongoing crises, political enemies, public opinion, your relations with Congress and the press, and keeping your country secure in a world of rival nations and agendas that just seems to keep blowing up around you. [Forum]

People Power: Insurgency in the Philippines, 1983-1986 is volume XI of the highly-praised and popular COIN Series originally designed by Volko Ruhnke. For players new to the COIN Series, or for those looking to teach the the series to their friends, People Power will serve as an excellent introductory game. Aiming for a 2 hour playtime and accessible complexity, People Power utilizes many of the basic COIN Series mechanics in new and familiar ways. [Forum]

For two hundred years, war waged back and forth across the border between England and Scotland. In Border Reivers, each player rules over one of the Marches as leader of one of the six major riding families of the border: Grey, Fenwick, Dacre, Maxwell, Kerr, or Hume. Your goal is to increase the wealth and fame of your clan throughout the reigns of Henry and Elizabeth to end the century as the most famous Border Reiver of all time. [Forum]

The Barracks Emperors is a strategy card game set against the backdrop of the Roman Crisis of the Third Century, during which at least 45 different men made a claim to the throne of the Roman Empire. In this game, 1-4 players represent prominent political factions attempting to gain control over the men who would be Emperors of Rome. [Forum]

Under the Southern Cross: The South American Republics in the Age of Fighting Sail is the fourth volume of the highly regarded Flying Colors series of games on naval combat. The focus is on the southern part of the South American continent: Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador, from the Wars of Independence starting in 1810 through the last naval war fought completely under sail between Argentina and Uruguay in 1841. [Forum]

Battles in the East (BITE) is a series simulating World War II Eastern Front battles. The system rules are an evolution of the SPI classics Panzergruppe Guderian, Army Group South, and Cobra. Volume 2 features Uman Pocket and Guderian’s Final Blitzkrieg (Tula, 1941). [Forum]

Battles in the East (BITE) is a series simulating World War II Eastern Front battles. The system rules are an evolution of the SPI classics Panzergruppe Guderian, Army Group South, and Cobra. Volume 1 features Bagration Stopped (Warsaw, 1944: Operation Bagration) and Sandomierz Offensive (Vistula Bridgehead, 1944). [Forum]

Western Front Ace: The Great War in the Air, 1916-1918 is a solitaire, tactical level game which places you in command of a scout (fighter) aircraft during World War I. Each turn consists of one sortie, during which a combat will usually occur. The player may choose one of seven different nationalities to fly for, and can be based from one of many bases in along the trench lines or in Italy. Western Front Ace is based on the popular, action-packed Nightfighter Ace game system by Gregory M. Smith. [Forum]