- A Las Barricadas! 2nd Edition Analysis
- Paper Wars, Issue 86: Nomads No More (new from Compass Games)
featuring the game, Nomads No More, which includes two separate games — Ungern-Sternberg’s Mongolia and Enver Pasha’s Bokhara. Both games use the same core rules but separate maps and pieces to cover concurrent conflicts that erupted on the eastern perimeter of Soviet Russia soon after the Russian Civil War — the early 1920’s. Ungern-Sternberg’s Mongolia simulates the invasion of Mongolia by fleeing Whites, their clash with the Chinese and subsequent pursuit by Reds. Enver Pasha’s Bokhara covers the Basmachi Revolt against Soviet rule around Bokhara — present day Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. [Forum]
- Interview with Andrew Rader
- Revolution Road (new from Compass Games)
contains two separate games encompassing the two Massachusetts flashpoints that ignited the American Revolutionary War in 1775; the running battle between the Colonists and British regulars in the trek to and from Concord and the epic Battle of Bunker Hill that followed. Not only does this title provide two separate engagements but several scenarios for each as well as high solitaire capability multiple solitaire scenarios . The games provide a simple approach to gaming concepts while providing a goodly dose of historical background – eminently usable as a teaching tool. [Forum]
- Triumph of the Will: Nazi Germany vs. Imperial Japan, 1948 (Compass Games Preorder)
enables two players to game the entirety of alternative history’s worst nightmare: a triumphant Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, having won World War II and conquered the planet in 1945, square off against each other – for total domination – three years later. The game’s two area-movement mapsheets join along the equator to show the whole world, including the Arctic and Antarctic. [Forum]
- Sovereign of the Seas Unboxing [video]
- The African Campaign, Designer Signature Edition (Compass Games Preorder)
marks the return of a true wargaming classic by John Edwards, faithfully remastered and updated with this all-new edition. Celebrated by many as “Afrika Korps done right,” this two-player game allows players to explore the key elements of the Desert War, beginning in December 1940 with Wavell’s first offensive, Operation Compass, against the Italian forces of Marshal Graziani, and culminating in December 1942 when the American’s landed in Rommel’s rear, thus sealing the ultimate fate of the Afrika Korps. Features larger map, counters, and bonus material featuring variant rules for added historicity. [Forum]
- Saipan: The Bloody Rock Review [video]
- Interview with Ty Bomba
- Revolution Road Preview [video]
- Saipan: The Bloody Rock Unboxing [video]
- Fall Of The Third Reich Review
- Paper Wars, Issue 85: Russia Falling (new from Compass Games)
featuring the insert game Russia Falling: The Coming Civil War, by Ty Bomba. The game enables two players to play the first year of a hypothesized near-future post-Putin civil war in Russia. The map covers the core area of the Russian ethnic heartland, from St. Petersburg in the north to Tula in the south, and from Smolensk in the west to Nizhny Novgorod in the east, at 16 miles per hex. [Forum]
- Saipan: The Bloody Rock (new from Compass Games)
Saipan: The Bloody Rock will be the first game to utilize the new Company Scale System (CSS) by Adam Starkweather. Along with numerous historical scenarios and campaign game, there is a bonus hypothetical game that lets the players decide how to defend Saipan and how to invade it. The American player receives the same historical forces but now has the opportunity to devise his own landing schedule over one of 25 beaches. The Japanese player gets to prepare his own defenses; set up pillboxes, lay mines and deploy 6” naval guns etc. Can you do better than history? [Forum]
- The Lamps Are Going Out Review
- 1866: The Struggle for Supremacy in Germany Unboxing [video]
- Fall Of The Third Reich (new from Compass Games)
by award-winning designer Ted S. Raicer, covering the dramatic last two years of WWII in Europe, as the Western Allies and the Soviet Union fight against fierce German resistance to bring down the Thousand-Year Reich. Two large hex maps cover Europe from France to Central Russia, and Leningrad to Sicily. Units are Armies, Corps, and in a few cases, Divisions. There are twelve two-month turns making for a highly-playable gaming experience. [Forum]
- Saipan: The Bloody Rock Preview
- Commands & Colors: Tricorne – The American Revolution (Compass Games @ Kickstarter)
based on the highly successful C&C game system, where Command cards drive movement and battle dice resolve combat. Tricorne introduces many new game concepts, which add historical depth and provide even the most veteran Commands & Colors player many new play experiences and challenges. This is the first Kickstarter for Compass Games! All prior pre-orders of this title will be honored, future orders will be through Kickstarter. [Forum]
- 1866: The Struggle for Supremacy in Germany Unboxing [video]