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WW2 Deluxe is a grand-strategic game utilizing armies or army groups, air forces, and fleets. The game covers the entire conflict in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. There are two players or sides in the game. The Axis controls Germany, Italy, and all friendly minor countries. The Allied player controls France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States when it enters the conflict. [Forum]

Hatten In Flames is a new historical module for Advanced Squad Leader set in late 1944, as the German Army launched Operation NORDWIND against elements of the American 7th Army. Eight scenarios and two Campaign Games focus on the first five days of fighting in the French village of Hatten, as German panzer units try to break through to the open terrain of Alsace. [Forum]

a print and play game for solitaire and two-players. This is a special limited edition version of the game with Kickstarter Exclusive content that will not be available in the regular game post-Kickstarter. The game sets a small squad of British Airborne against their German enemies in a series of small skirmish scenarios. The game's counters (or chits) each represent an actual soldier with the gameplay being in the thick of man-to-man combat.

a compact, strategic-level game covering the struggle between the United States (including some Commonwealth forces) and Japan in World War II by game designer, Gregory M. Smith. This game utilizes a unique and fast-paced, card-driven combat/build system revolving around carrier operations which will provide players with a multitude of decisions. While extremely ]competitive as a two-player game, Pacific Tide can be enjoyed again and again in solitaire play format with its unique, “personality” driven bot system. [Forum]

Crusader Kings - The Board Game captures the essence of the Crusader Kings experience, in a physical tabletop format. This is a strategy game at heart, but with a special focus on characters, intrigue, and juicy medieval drama. It’s a big, beautiful game centered on a map of medieval Europe, using cards for actions, characters and events and dozens of well-crafted plastic miniatures to represent knights, armies, castles, and more.

marks the return of an original game covering the historical events that led to the liberation of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands during the Allied drive on Germany by renowned game designer, Mark Herman. This new signature edition has been re-mastered and updated and will be linking with an all-new companion game, Russia 1944, slated for release in 2019. France 1944 is yet another Classic Reborn! by Compass. [Forum]

a 2-player strategic block wargame on the first English Civil War, during which the Royalist forces fighting for King Charles I were opposed by the English Parliamentarian troops and their Scottish allies, the Covenanters, in a struggle for political, economic and religious control of England. 5 scenarios. [Forum]

a two to six-player grand strategic level card driven wargame depicting the military confrontations in the Middle East since 2012, up to the near future. Among 10 historical and hypothetical scenarios, players can simulate the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Kurdish Rebellion, the Sunni versus Shia confrontation as well as Russian, Turkish, Israeli and Western intervention in the region. ISIS troops are activated through Event cards. [Forum]

This an expansion. You must own Old School Tactical Volume II to play Ghost Front. Ghost Front is the second expansion to Old School Tactical Vol II, covering the German's Ardennes offensive of 1944. This boxed expansion includes a new, 30" x 41" mounted map board depicting snowy Ardennes terrain, a new sheet of counters with new SS and American units, unit data cards, and an 11-scenario booklet. [Forum]

Versailles 1919, created by designers Mark Herman and Geoff Engelstein, allows you to experience this piece of history as one of the four leaders with a national agenda that must be satisfied. As one of the Big Four, you sit in a conference room gaining influence on the issues present in the room. Hovering in the waiting room sit other issues and personages who are waiting their turn to make their case to meet regional aspirations such as self-determination. [Forum]

This is an enhanced edition (new art, mounted maps, new generals, pretty much an overall facelift) of the popular solitaire game that Mark Herman created for Victory Games almost 30 years ago. It is a design that has stood the test of time. From the opening of the Archadameian War in 431BC to the Fall of Athens in 404, The Peloponessian War allows YOU to compete against the man in the mirror, as you live through the suicide of Greece. Maneuver your generals, hoplites, and navies to fight battles and attempt to bring the war to an end on your terms. Take heed, however. As you weaken your foe, you create a greater game challenge for yourself. For as you improve in strength, so does your opponent. [Forum]

West Germany teeters on the brink of defeat. The American V Corps is all but crushed, and Soviet armored formations rush to the French border. In a small town near the North Sea, a temporary POW camp holds hundreds of NATO soldiers, not all of them human. A handful make a break for freedom. Welcome to Mark Walker’s Dark War, a skirmish and roleplaying game set in the midst of a Weird War III. If you like man-to-man, man-to-beast, woman-to-whatever combat, you might want to give it a look. [Forum]

this game delivers an uncomplicated approach to a very complicated conflict. Eight scenarios introduce players to U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia including a scenario after the US withdrew from Vietnam, a full campaign scenario as well as high solitaire capability. Players appreciate the ability to start in any year of the war they wish and fight to the end of any other year of the war. The game provides a comprehensive historical approach using mechanics that include guerrilla warfare, faction differentiation, political turmoil, and veteran advantages. This edition features deluxe components including 3/4" counters and mounted game map and new rules for solitaire play. [Forum]

the 3rd Volume in the Marianas Campaign series. This is a perfect introduction to Adam Starkweather's Company Scale System (CSS). Played on a single map, 3 scenarios and 3 campaign games are included. Special rules cover Caves, Beach Landings, Naval Support, Air Support, Sealing Caves, Mines, Japanese Tenacity, Inter-service Rivalry, Banzai Charges, Japanese Naval guns, Flamethrowers, Napalm, Under water demolition Teams, Aerial Reconnaissance, Tropical Storms, Japanese Knee Mortars AND drunken Japanese Admirals. There are also rules for additional Japanese troops that could have been on the island if you wish to make it tougher on the Americans. [Forum]

Prelude to War: Europe 1936-1939 is a three player detailed historical simulation that is fast-paced and very interactive. It recreates thepolitical, diplomatic and military maneuvering that preceded the outbreak of the Second World War. Players advance their goals through actions such as Diplomacy, Appeasement, Intimidation, Agitation, Military Aid, Annexations, and more. The diplomatic wrangling and muscle-flexing between the major powers is translated into a "challenge" mechanism where players stake national pride and international credibility until one side caves in, or the escalation culminates in a final "test of nerves" that determines the victor. The resolution of these challenges does not involve any dice rolling and is essentially a mind game based on bluff and risk-management. [Forum]

simulates the naval campaigns fought in the North Atlantic between the surface fleets of the Royal Navy and the Kriegsmarine between 1939 and 1942. It utilizes a system of trajectories to model the fog of war that bedeviled the commands during this period. Just as the pins and strings adorning Churchill’s wall represented the course of the ships underway, players arrange trajectory lines across the shared game board, each line representing a task force’s path of travel. Without resorting to dummy blocks, hidden movement, or a double-blind system requiring a referee or computer, players experience the uncertainty endemic to this period of naval warfare. This system also has the benefit of allowing the game to be played solitaire, and to be played quickly. [Forum]

Deep War is a fast-paced strategic card game set in World War II. You will be able to personify the greatest commanders and deploy units, infused with the essence of history, from Army, Aviation and Navy... all together, like never before.

Dual Powers: Revolution 1917 is an area control strategy game for 1-2 players. Each player directs the forces of the conservative Provisional Government or the socialist activists of the Petrograd Soviet in a struggle for power and influence that will shape Russia’s future and either launch or suppress the impending civil war.

after a hiatus the magazine is back and better than ever. Issue 12 will ship in June. Chalk full of articles with 132 pages total, the insert game is Nightdrop 2: Pegasus Bridge [Forum]

the all-new Pacific Victory is an exciting, fast-paced game simulating the Pacific Theater of WWII. Units are represented by wooden blocks which remain upright and hide the type and strength of the unit. A fusion of Columbia's older "Front" system and its newer "Victory" system, the game focuses on the grand strategy of the Pacific war. [Forum]