Category: Preorder Alert

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. Players gain VPs from successful combats, amassing large herds of livestock, and by elevating their Notoriety above the other players in the regions of the map. [Forum]

It's time for a new issue of Yaah! magazine. This issue comes with a spiffy new, man-to-man solitaire game from one of the best solitaire designers in the industry, Gottardo Zancani. Titled Rattenkreig, the game simulates up close and personal combat in Stalingrad, circa 1942. Rattenkreig features a robust AI bot, and an innovative way, based on the actual size of the counter, to calculate to where a unit may move. This and much more included in the magazine. [Forum]

Final Call before preorder ends! After two years of worldwide unrest and open revolts, the TRL Central Committee finally surrendered to popular demand. A Third Echelon of 1985: Under an Iron Sky will be mobilized. That's right, preorder this popular game today to get your chance to secure a copy of this game. Please act now, as this will be a very limited print run (be sure to place your preorder before June 19, 2020!) [Forum]

The World at War: Europe is a game covering the Second World War in Europe. This game being a wargame do not use cardboard counters for the units. All the ground units are quite simplified with wooden cubes. The game is an area based game which activates units by actions and gives great importance to economy. The game is much easier to play and faster to complete as other traditional hex and counter games.

The following four out-of-stock games are now available for preorder as a Second Printing:

• The African Campaign, Designer Signature Edition
• Pacific Tide
• Zeppelin Raider
• Crusade and Revolution DELUXE Edition

SCS Iron Curtain is now available for preorder! Beginning with Iron Curtain (Carl and Dean’s SCS World War 3 game) we are implementing a new "early bird" preorder structure. Most preorders other than ASL and GCACW will have a 30% discount off retail for the first 30 days, and then be 20% off retail during the rest of the preorder timeframe. Iron Curtain, for example, which retails for $85, will be $60 for the first 30 days of preorder (i.e., through June 28, 2020), and will then be $68 for the duration of the preorder. [Forum]

Jacobite Rising is the first standalone game for Commands & Colors Tricorne (ownership of Tricorne is NOT required) and features 13 battle scenarios by Richard Borg. Mounted game board, terrain tiles, blocks, command and combat cards, stickers and large, molded dice are all included. You will find many new and interesting play concepts which brings new experiences and challenges covering the world of the Highland Clans in the time of the Jacobite Risings. [Forum]

Dawn of Battle is a hex and counter battle that allows gamers to refight 20 great battles from ancients to medieval. The game is designed by Mike Nagel and is not card driven but does use cards. Battles can be fought in 2 hours. A level between Hold the Line and Great Battles of History, the system hits a sweet spot for complexity and depth of play. Imminently replayable with future expansions planned. The campaign ends June 6, don't miss out. [Forum]

Four issue subscripton of Paper Wars magazine including the insert game. The centerpiece of each Paper Wars issue is the insert game and accompanying historical article, along with articles focusing on after action reports, new scenarios, works-in-progress, and design theory. Errata fix or bonus counters for other Compass Games may also be included (varies by issue). Subscriptions are offered based on shipping destination. [Forum]

• issue #97: Battle for Galicia, 1914 by Michael Resch
• issue #98: First Blood in the Crimea: The Battle of the Alma, 20 September 1854 by Ty Bomba
• issue #99: Assault on Tobruk, Rommel Triumphant, 20 June, 1942 by Stephen Newberg
• issue #100: Bloody Retributions: The Battle of Inkerman, 5 November 1854 by Ty Bomba

Stalingrad Solitaire is a solitaire game simulating the last weeks of the encircled German 6th Army in the pocket German troops nicknamed “The Cauldron” that formed in and to the west of the city of Stalingrad when Soviet troops broke through the Wehrmacht’s front lines in December 1942. [Forum]

The Kickstarter campaign to fund the reprint of Old School Tactical VOL II: West Front 1944-45 and Airborne, AND a new expansion, Phantom Division is live. Click here to pledge. Those who pledge early will save on their pledge levels for both Old School Tactical Vol II and Airborne. [Forum]

Air & Armor: Operational Armored Warfare in Europe, Designer Signature Edition marks the return of one of the most highly rated wargames on modern warfare ever published. Air & Armor is a company level simulation of a Hypothetical Soviet attack on West Germany in the mid-1980s. It depicts the collision of the Soviet 8th Guards Army and elements of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division and West German 12th Panzer Division in a ferocious battle around the German city of Wurzburg. This new edition is lovingly recreated with new map artwork, new unit counters, new unit values and updated rules. [Forum | Video]

Alexandros and Spartacus features not one but two great ancient games designed by Mike Markowitz that originally appeared in Command magazine in 1991 and 1992, garnering numerous Charles S. Roberts Award nominations and awards — Alexandors and I Am Spartacus. This expanded edition features both games along with their multiple expansions, three in total, to round out this impressive, DELUXE package with two full-size game maps and updated graphics throughout. [Forum]

An Attrition of Souls is a light, fast-paced wargame at the strategic scale covering the Great War, designed with a high degree of replayability—no two games play alike. This deluxe game with mounted mapboard and large game counters features a unique tile-placement system to simulate the First World War. Game strategy is key due to the unforgiving combat system capturing the horrific attrition of this conflict; the dice offer no bloodless victories or reprieve for either side. [Forum]

Combat! 2 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'. Follow the fortunes of your squad from D-day to VE-day performing missions and patrols; will your squad be an efficient well-disciplined unit or the new Dirty Dozen? [Forum]

The French and Indian War is a strategic game on that conflict in America during the peak war years of 1757 to 1759. One side commands the British and its allies while the other commands the French and its allies. The game is very strategic and includes hidden and simultaneous movement. Playable by two players in under two hours. [Forum]

In 1985, Victory Games published Pacific War. Reviewers at the time (for example, Fred Hellferich in his Fire and Movement review) felt this design set the standard for an operational/ strategic simulation of this globe spanning conflict. This is a strategic wargame that takes you from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the climatic summer of 1945… from Australia to China… from Burma to Hawaii… from the defense of Wake Island through the invasion of Guadalcanal culminating in the desperate battles to defend the Japanese Home Islands. [Forum]

Dawn’s Early Light: The War of 1812 is a two-player card-driven grand strategy game: a quick-playing, high-level abstract recreation of the entire conflict encompassing the territorial, naval, political, and economic competition between the United States and Great Britain. This deluxe game features a mounted game map, large 5/8" punch out counters, and covers the four-year period spanning the war and its prelude, with game cards for events and operations that offer players the tools to remix the entire scope of the conflict. [Forum]

Now live on Kickstarter! The game features several innovations that combine to create a fluid and dynamic experience while remaining historically accurate: Regiments are never stacked, losses are recorded using 3D pieces and combat results are immediately obtained through dice rolls, with minimal use of tables and markers. The command system allows players to issue orders in a manner that realistically simulates the imperfect communication between generals in the Napoleonic era: anticipate the evolution of the battle and dispatch timely orders, knowing that their arrival will not be immediate, and that they could be delayed or even lost entirely! [Pledge Today]

This new pack has two 8" x 22" geomorphic map boards (k and l) and eight new scenarios in locations such as China, Burma, Java, and New Guinea. It continues with the introduction of the Japanese, and adds new rules to introduce players to the Chinese forces, and to overlays. Please note that ownership of the core ASL Starter Kit modules is required to make full use of this expansion pack. [Forum]