Category: Preorder Alert

Cruel Necessity Deluxe Edition is a "deluxification" of the classic solitaire game of the English Civil Wars (1640-53). Playable in 60 minutes. This new edition includes rules updates and a deluxification of all components. [Forum]

Jon Southard’s Carrier Battle: Philippine Sea puts you in command of the US fleet during the largest carrier battle ever fought. Maneuver your task forces, search from the skies, and find your enemy before they find you in this action-packed solitaire simulation. [Forum]

The eagerly-awaited 2nd Edition/Reprint of Hermann Luttmann's popular A Most Fearful Sacrifice is live on Kickstarter. The first pledgers will receive a 5$ copy of AMFS and all the pledge goals that we unlock. Why 2nd Edition? We wanted gamers, both owners and those who might buy at a later date, to know exactly which edition they are getting, to incorporate errata, and improve the Player Aid Cards. [Forum]

DZ: SME covers the first two days of the battles around the Norman town of Saint-Mére-Église. Each side has the opportunity to attack and defend. The module comes with three historically accurate maps of the town and its environs, jointly crafted by Sharon Boyd, designer Ken Dunn, and artist Charlie Kibler. [Forum]

Freezing Inferno is a WW2 wargame for 1 or 2 players covering the 1939-1940 conflict between Finland and the USSR – The Winter War.

Fall Blau is a solitaire wargame putting you in charge of the 1942 German summer offensive tasked with taking the crucial oil fields in the south of the Soviet Union. Pick your three generals, issue them orders, take cities, marshal your supplies in this race against the Russian winter and Zhukov's counteroffensive . You have 14 turns to achieve your goals before winter arrives.

Grand Tactical Series: Briefings Volume 1 is a magazine designed to support players of our Grand Tactical Series of games. This is the magazine with the new GTS game on the Saar, designed by Joe Chacon. The game is titled Strike – Counter Strike, 4th Armored Division vs Panzer Lehr along the Saar. This 60-page magazine is designed to support both new and experienced GTS players. [Forum]

WARFARE: Modern Tactical Combat is a game that will introduce you to modern warfare in urban and rural areas. Learn to use the deadly weapons your teams have at their disposal to achieve their objectives (clearing an area from hostiles, saving civilians, conquering or holding key points). Place your late pledge today!

Struggle for control of ancient Greece in this fast and exciting historical area control game. 2-3 hours, 1-2 players. Solo Mode. A Kris Van Beurden design. Place your late pledge preorder today!

New color-play aids, revised rules and scenarios for this final edition of Avalanche Press' grand strategic game of the Pacific War, for 2 to 5 players. [Forum]

The new Playbook Edition of Kursk: Burning Tigers brings this game of massive tank battles to the same standard of history and extended game play as the most recent Panzer Grenadier games. [Forum]

SPARTA! is a two-player game (with a solitaire mode bot) about the 2nd Peloponnesian War and the subsequent Theban-Spartan War, each playable as a standalone game or combined in a Campaign game. Sparta faces the might of the Athenian Empire in the first scenario, while Thebes challenges the Spartan Supremacy in the second scenario!

This two-player game is a tense chess match of maneuver, deception and surprise. In the solitaire game you play as the Marines as you attempt to hold on to the perimeter protecting Henderson Field against relentless Japanese attacks taking your forces to the breaking point. [Forum]

Schnell Boats is a solitaire, tactical-level wargame by game designer Joe Carter who first brought you Devil Boats. This new game puts you in command of German Kriegsmarine narrative-driven torpedo boats and experimental turbojet hydrofoil boats. Players will conduct night missions against Allied forces in the English Channel during 1943-44. Destroy as many ships as possible and survive 12 months, but lose too much of your squadron and find yourself relieved of command or worse! Will you survive against the Royal Navy? [Forum]

Gregory M. Smith's latest solitaire design is now on Kickstarter. In American Tank Ace, you'll build a narrative all the way from tank school through major WWII offensives in the European theatre, growing in skill and prestige along the way. With ten tank models to try, a variety of tactical mission types, and randomized enemy formations, you'll tell a new story each time you set up. Pledge now and save! [Forum]

Lombardy Studios is importing two great World War II East Front books published in English researched and written by Christer Bergström. Volumes 1 of both books are here. Help us bring in Volumes 2 by supporting this Kickstarter. [Forum]

WWII Campaigns: 1940, 1941, and 1942 is the faithful recreation of not one, but THREE classic GDW Series 120 games, in this all-encompassing package. Each of the three games is intended as challenging, introductory-level games; the “120” reflects each game in this series uses no more than 120 counters, and all are intended to be played to completion in two hours or less without sacrificing historical quality or gaming excellence. Classics in every sense of the word for their day, relive the battles with these old classics in a new and updated format (larger counters and map size). [Forum]

Oceans of Fire is an area movement, strategic simulation of the Pacific Theater of Operations in World War II with an operational feel. Players command the Japanese, American, and British Commonwealth naval, air, and ground forces that fought in the Pacific and Southeast Asia. [Forum]

Warriors of England is a quick-playing game covering the War of the Roses (1455-1487) and uses similar game mechanics as Multi-Man Publishing’s Warriors of God game, which covers The Hundred Years War. [Forum]

Brothers at War: 1862 is a quick-playing, tactical wargame exploring civil war brigade command. This is a quadrigame or set of four games, each featuring a full-size, 22×34″ game map and covering battles from 1862: Antietam, South Mountain, Mill Springs, and Bloody Valverde. [Forum]