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Atlantic Sentinels is a solitaire, tactical level game placing you as the Senior Officer of the Escort, shepherding a convoy in the North Atlantic from the attacks of U-boats, both singly and in wolfpacks. You are in command of a convoy escort group, composed typically of 4-10 escort vessels guarding a convoy on its way across the Atlantic. [Forum]

Sensuikan: Japanese Fleet Submarines, 1941-45 is a solitaire, tactical level game that places you in command of a Japanese Fleet submarine from Pearl Harbor until the end of the war in 1945. After choosing a class, your mission is to conduct special missions as assigned by the Combined Fleet. [Forum]

Esther is a two player 30 minute card driven strategy game wherein one player will end up on the gallows while the other player wins.

Campaign Study of the German 49th Mountain Corps during the June 1941 Battle of Brody-Dubno. The German mountain divisions faced the Soviet Sixth Army, and sharp counter-attacks by the well-equipped 4th Mechanized Corps. With 10 new scenarios for Panzer Grenadier: Fire in the Steppe. [Forum]

Dog Boats: Battle of the Narrow Seas is a solitaire, tactical-level, narrative-driven wargame. You, as Commander, will lead a squadron of 4 Royal Navy gun boats or torpedo boats on night missions against German Kriegsmarine forces in the English Channel during 1943-1944. [Forum]

Cross Bronx Expressway is the third game in the Irregular Conflicts Series. It simulates the socio-economic processes of urban development, and the human costs that result, as a competitive city-builder with collective loss conditions. Players control one of three asymmetric factions working in the South Bronx between 1940 and 2000, pursuing their own goals while cooperating to keep the borough viable. [Forum]

Inferno—the third volume in Volko Ruhnke's Levy & Campaign Series—visits the conflagration that was 13th-Century Tuscan warfare, factional conflict fueled by the money and burgeoning population of the region's well-to-do cities and mountain valleys. Veteran Italian wargame designer Enrico Acerbi applies his deep knowledge of the age to bring it to life within Volko's accessible medieval-operation system. [Forum]

Kontact Now: Red Eclipse by Steve Overton is a tactical wargame. It is a Card Assisted Fire Team level of tactical combat. The player will control forces of either the United States or Soviet Union conducting combat operations in West Germany, 1989. The game uses a Card Assisted, Command Point system to create a very unique Command and Control system. Various scenarios will test your tactical skills using all the forces and options historically available to the leaders of that time. [Forum]

a complete Panzer Grenadier naval game: river monitors and armored gunboats brawl on the rivers of Eastern Europe. With 16 scenarios, two maps and 191 pieces. [Forum]

Imperial Campaigns is a wargame system for recreating wars and campaigns during the great age of European Empires from the 18th century to early 20th centuries, using 60 to 80 counters per game and a deck of cards. A single Standard Rules booklet applies to all games in the series, each of which also has its own Exclusive Rules providing the Scenario(s) for a specific campaign. The Boer War is the first entry in this new series from Joseph Miranda and Canvas Temple Publishing. Boer War is based on the conflict between the British Empire and the Boer Republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal, which started in 1899 (generally known as the Second Boer War). [Forum]

Greg Blanchett is developing a slightly new take on the variable strength chits system to cover more obscure battles of the Eastern Front. First up is a simulation of Operation Mars, the failed Soviet offensive to eliminate the salient of the German Ninth Army during the winter of 1942-43. [Forum]

BCS Arracourt depicts the Axis counterattack against Patton's drive across France in September 1944. The game highlights both sides using all the tools of mobile warfare, both maneuvering to attack and defend the ground of their choosing. The game is a great introduction to the system for the beginner BCS player, but is still a challenge for the BCS veteran. The game has one map, 352 5/8" counters, and six scenarios from two turns to the 13-turn campaign scenario. [Forum]

Refight the battles of the US First Marine Division on Guadalcanal and New Britain using the Band of Brothers game system. [Forum]

Granada: The Last Stand of the Moors, 1482-1492 is a game for two players in which they will decide the outcome of this decisive historical episode in less than four hours. As the Catholic player, will you gain fame and glory accomplishing the Reconquista and enlarging your kingdoms in one unified powerful state? And as the Muslim player, will you resist and save Granada or will you become the last King of the Nasrid dynasty? Balanced and historically accurate, the game is easy to learn but difficult to master. [Forum]

Excalibur uses the Hold the Line system to allow gamers to refight the historical/mythical battles of King Arthur. Eight scenarios and quick game play make for an exciting game. [Forum]

Defending America: Intercepting the Amerika Bombers, 1947-48 is a solitaire, tactical level game which places you in command of an actual or experimental interceptor aircraft during a frightening look at what might have been in World War II. This game is highly accessible to those familiar with the B17: Queen of the Skies system. The game system lends itself very well to capturing the tense feelings of being on a interception mission, and gives a frightening look on “what might have been” had the Allies fared poorly in the war. While Defending Amerika is designed as a solitaire gaming experience, additional options for play are provided for both multi-player cooperative and competitive gaming sessions, and an option to link the game with Amerika Bomber: Evil Queen of the Skies. [Forum]

Schnell Boats: Scourge of the English Channel is a solitaire, tactical-level, narrative-driven wargame. You, as Kommandant, will lead a squadron of 4 German Kriegsmarine torpedo boats or experimental turbojet-powered hydrofoil boats on night missions against Allied forces in the English Channel during 1943-1944. [Forum]

The Finnish Expansion is an extensive package expands and complements Russia Besieged Deluxe Edition (ownership of this game is required), the finest Corps/Army level treatments of the fighting on the Eastern Front in World War II. This expansion completes the entire Eastern Front experience by adding a map that covers Finland from Helsinki, Leningrad, Archangel, Petsamo and Murmansk. As an added bonus, included in this package is an historical Battle of Kursk scenario. [Forum]

Coalitions brings the whole continent of the Napoleonic Wars into a fast, playable system. Multiplayers—with NO downtime. Each turn, EVERY player is doing something… but doing something ‘different.’ This sets up an unexpected cycle like nothing you’ve ever played before. Cool wooden pieces, or a “Deluxe” version with some of the most beautiful 28mm miniatures you’ve ever seen (You know Phalanx Games makes sweet miniatures!). Kickstarter backers get exclusive sculpts, an extra player expansion, plus an extra game covering a slightly different period! Kickstarter runs through July 14. [Forum]

Scream, Aim, Fire! is a solitaire tactical game of squad-level combat in the aftermath of D-Day. The player takes the part of American infantry and armor pushing inland to take objectives, using a dice-roll action system that gives you a guaranteed number of actions each round, but not always of the exact type you need. A card-driven action system manages the German defenders, including veteran units, machine-gun nests, and even tanks. [Forum]