Category: Preorder Alert

South Pacific is a complete Second World War at Sea boxed game based on the Solomons Campaign of 1942 and 1943. It covers the naval battles of Guadalcanal, the carrier battles of the Eastern Solomons and Santa Cruz, the battles of Vella Gulf, Empress Augusta Bay and Kolombangara, and much more. [Forum]

a Campaign Study looking at Japanese operations after the planned invasion of Ceylon, with 14 new scenarios for the Second World War at Sea games Eastern Fleet and Horn of Africa [Forum]

a new Playbook edition of Panzer Grenadier (Modern): 1967 Sword of Israel takes on the 1967 Six-Day War, covering all three fronts with 51 scenarios, eight maps and 869 die-cut and silky-smooth playing pieces. Everything you need to play, except dice, is right there in the book - a book with historical background and battle games to link the scenarios together and make the game an immersive historical experience. [Forum]

Panzer Grenadier: Changsha Operation is a free expansion set exclusively for our Gold Club. It’s a download; you’ll have to assemble the pieces yourself. The Japanese come from The Kokoda Campaign, and the maps from Korean War: Pusan Perimeter and Korean War: Counter Attack. [Forum]

Lanzerath Ridge is a solitaire wargame that takes places on the first day of the Battle of the Bulge, during the Second World War. In the game, you take control of a small group of American soldiers. Under your command, the Americans must fend off the relentless attacks from German paratroopers and fusiliers. Your goal is to recreate the incredible historic accomplishment of the American soldiers by defending the town of Lanzerath, Belgium and delaying the advance of an entire SS Panzer Division. [Forum]

Purple Haze is an immersive story-creation game for 1 to 4 players that drops you into the heart of darkness: Vietnam, 1967. It’s in part a story-creation game, in part a tactical combat game, and in part a campaign game. Your decisions will determine the story. Your tactics will decide the outcome of life-and-death firefights. Your men will suffer. Some won’t make it home. Those that do will get wiser, get tougher. The goal: complete the mission, get out alive. [Forum]

This game is part of OSG's The Library of Napoleonic Battles (TLNB) series and covers the Autumn Campaign, August-September, 1813. Battles include Grossbeeren, Katzbach, Kulm, and Dennewitz. This is an update of the 2005 edition game with new maps. [Forum]

This game is part of OSG's The Library of Napoleonic Battles (TLNB) series and covers the Po Valley Campaign from May, 1796. Battles include Lodi, Castiglione, Mantova, Arcole, and Rivoli. Preorder expires 31 Jan 2022. [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]

Old School Tactical Vol I NOT-A-REPRINT 2nd Edition. As mentioned in the title, this is a completely update, 2nd Edition, with may new features. In the vein of Old School Tactical Vol 2's Phantom Division, Red Blitz is also now available as part of this Kickstarter campaign. This is a boxed expansion that adds more maps, more counters, and more scenarios that occur during the vicious fighting of Operation Bagration in the summer of 1944. [Forum]

Heraklion is a Campaign Study for the Panzer Grenadier series; a short book adding nine scenarios based on these battles to Parachutes Over Crete. This is a thing that really happened! To play these nine scenarios (which come with three battle games, too), you’ll also need Parachutes Over Crete and Road to Dunkirk. [Forum]

In case you missed out, you can still participate in a late pledge to back PanzerKampf from Trafalgar Editions. [see original listing | Forum]

North Africa '41 is a complete redo of my old design The Legend Begins which was first published 30 years ago by Rhino Game Company. Everything has been redone—new map, new order of battle research, and improved rules using many of the ideas developed in Stalingrad '43, Holland '44, and Salerno '43. [Forum]

Infernal Machine: Dawn of Submarine Warfare is a solitaire board game that casts the player in the role of inventor/entrepreneur in mid-19th century America. The game is set during a historical moment when the business environment has gotten rather dynamic – it is the tumultuous landscape of the American Civil War. The player’s task is to design, build, and put to use a submarine during that war. [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]

Legions of Zog is an expansion for Panzer Grenadier: Conquest of Ethiopia, with eight new scenarios and 24 new die-cut and silky-smooth pieces. You get the Royal Albanian Army as it stood in April 1939, having to face hordes of Italian invaders. The scenarios unfold in our unique story-arc format, with battle games to tie them together. Can you force the fascists to kneel before Zog?. With 24 die-cut, mounted and silky-smooth pieces and five new scenarios. [Forum]

Nguyen Hue '72 - The 1972 Easter Offensive in Vietnam" is a strategic-level oversize hex & miniatures treatment of the huge conventional contest in 1972, as the Northern Communists attempted to militarily defeat the South before the US presidential election at the end of the year. It's fast-paced and easy-to-play but complex enough for the true wargamer. Event cards and mystery units make for great re-playability and even challenging solo play possibilities. The design includes terrain effects, supply, ZOC, airmobile moves, air and naval gunfire, amphibious operations, air defense, NVA tanks and artillery, B-52s and more!

It's a Gold Club exclusive: 176 pieces and ten scenarios of the 1938 German invasion of Czechoslovakia that never happened. Releases during the Twelve Days of Christmas. [Forum]

PanzerKampf is a new 1/150 scale armored miniatures game system covering WWII on the Eastern Front. Panzerkampf pitches you into the fight via a short set of rules that have color and detail where it matters. Your ace crew, veterans of many such engagements, may conquer all, live to fight another day, or or suddenly die right after the glimpse of an invisible cannon mouth. Protection, hitting power, speed, and crew experience are essential in this game. But no one survives without luck, representative of which are a number of random events that can help sway the balance one way or another. Engines stall; turrets jam; and from out of the sky come Stukas and Sturmoviks loaded with deadly guns. But can they always tell friend from foe? [Forum]

many articles and featuring the insert game, Caucasus Burning: The Nagorno-Karabahk War, 2020. This is an operational design by Greg Porter covering the Nagorno-Karabahk War of 2020. You'll command formations of T-90 tanks, BMP-equipped mechanized infantry, drones, cruise missiles, and squadrons of attack aircraft as you simulate the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which took place in the fall of 2020. [Forum]