- Brave and Noble Fights Review
- Hot Sand, Cold Steel (new from High Flying Dice Games)
- Walking a Bloody Path (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Walking a Bloody Path: The Battle of Fallen Timbers, 1794. This is the newest addition to the Battles of the Old Northwest Series of games; others on the battles of Kekionga, River Raisin, Wabash River and Tippecanoe were released earlier and ones on the battles of Chatham/Thames and Horseshoe Bend are in the works. Like the others in the series players use a deck of playing cards to activate their units and determine other game events. [Forum]
- A Kingly Fight: The Battle of Bouvines (new from High Flying Dice Games)
- Interview with Paul Rohrbaugh
- No Satisfaction: Operation Hump, 1965 (new from High Flying Dice Games)
The 173rd Composite Airborne Brigade was composed of units from the USA, Australia and New Zealand. Following the US intervention in April, the unit was deployed to Đồng Nai Province to protect the Bien Hoa Airbase. The 173rd was a “showcase” unit that embodied what was to have been an international effort to combat the spread of Communism in South Vietnam. From the start the unit was engaged in battles with the National Liberation Front’s 9th Division for control of the province. [Forum]
- Somewhere Far Beyond (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Somewhere Far Beyond: The Battle of Prairie Grove, December 7. 1862. Somewhere Far Beyondis an historical simulation of the battle fought on December 7, 1862 in the hills of Arkansas, between the Union Army of the Frontier commanded by General John Schofield and the Confederate Army of the Trans-Mississippi led by General Thomas Hindman. The battle at Prairie Grove was the last chance for the Confederacy to turn the tide of the war in that theatre to their favor. [Forum]
- Black Hell: The Battle for Los Negros Island (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Black Hell: The Battle for Los Negros Island, February-March, 1944. Before fleeing Corregidor, General Douglas MacArthur pledged to return to the Philippines. It was first necessary to retake New Guinea and at least neutralize the Japanese fortified base at Rabaul. Taking the island of Los Negros and its airbase at Momote would cut off Rabaul’s ability to receivd supplies from Japan or elsewhere, and allow the US-led forces to advance for an offensive to retake the Philippines. [Forum]
- An Unpleasant and Devastating Fight (new from High Flying Dice Games)
An Unpleasant and Devastating Fight: The Battle for Sittang Bridge, February 21-22, 1942. The situation for the Allies in Burma was increasingly desperate following the Japanese invasion that began in December 1941. After nearly a month of fighting the British Dominion forces were in full retreat, hoping to meet with reinforcements being rushed to the theater and to regroup behind the Sittang River. Another victory for the Japanese could lead to the capture of that major port and even more conquests by the sons from the land of the Rising Sun. [Forum]
- Custom Card Decks (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Check out the numerous custom card sets created to enhance HFDG releases, along with games published by Landsknecht Publishing (Against the Odds and Turning Point Simulations). There is also a new card set for Iron and Fire, which was one of the games featured in Against the Odds 2018 Annual ($9 plus shipping). [Forum]
- A Cold and Resolute Fight (new from High Flying Dice Games)
A Cold and Resolute Fight: The Battle for Navik, April-June, 1940. The German invasion of Demark and Norway, Operation Weserűbung, was a bold gamble by the invaders. The greatest risk for the Germans was at the northern most all-weather port of Narvik. Here the Germans landed troops that quickly overwhelmed the local Norwegian garrison but left them entirely dependent upon supplies and reinforcements that would arrive by ship or air transport. Purchase a custom card deck for the game to replace a standard card deck for an additional $6. [Forum]
- Hitting Home: Axis Raids on the Soo Locks (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Hitting Home is an introductory level game about Axis raids on the Soo Locks during WWII. The Soo Locks were a crucial choke point for the shipment of all of the iron ore used by US and Canadian steel mills. Air raids by German and Japanese aircraft and contingency plans for them, were planned by all sides. Although never carried out, strikes against this crucial Home Front installation could have had a profound impact on the war’s outcome. Hitting Home allows players to explore the “what if” of German or Japanese attacks against the Soo Locks. [Forum]
- Interview with Paul Rohrbaugh
- Operation Jubilee: The Raid on Dieppe (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Operation Jubilee: The Raid on Dieppe, August 1942. New German radar and anti-aircraft and shore batteries installed along the north coast of France were making life more dangerous for Allied shipping as well as increasingly dangerous for their bombers crossing the channel to conduct bombing raids in occupied France, Belgium as well as Nazi Germany. In May it was decided to conduct a raid on the channel port of Dieppe. [Forum]
- Nightmare Island (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Nightmare Island: The Battle for Biak Island, May-August, 1944. By early 1944 General MacArthur feared the upcoming US Navy offensive to take the Marianas to the north could lead to a strategic switch in offensive operations that would jeopardize his ambition and promise to retake the Philippines (as well as taking away the spotlight his operations commanded to this point in the war). In early 1944 MacArthur proposed the capture of BiakIsland to not only end the New Guinea campaign, but also to provide a forward base of operations for his planned return to the Philippine archipelago. [Forum]
- Long Cruel Woman Review [video]
- A Long, Hard Road (new from High Flying Dice Games)
The Battle of Dubno, June 23-27, 1941. A Long, Hard Road: The Battle of Dubno is a moderate complexity level wargame simulation of the first major clash of large armored formations on the East Front. After launching Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22nd, the First Panzer Group of the German Sixth Army led the offensive into the Ukraine. [Forum]
- No Pasaran! (new from High Flying Dice Games)
No Pasaran! The Battle of La Coruña Road, January 3-16, 1937. Following the successful stand by the Republicans at Madrid Nationalist Generalissimo, Francisco Franco ordered an attack northwest of the city to cut off its water supply from the south. Other Nationalist forces attacked from the north and east to surround the capital and lay siege. In mid-December 1936 the Nationalists launched their offensives, but these soon bogged down at the end of the month due to inclement weather and a lack of fuel. During the respite both sides rushed reinforcements to the front along the road from Madrid to La Coruña. [Forum]
- Battles of the Old Northwest Series First Look [video]
- Lances and Steel (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Lances and Steel is a war game simulation of the battle fought near the town of Mokra during the 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. The area was held by the Polish 7th Infantry Division and the Wolynska Cavalry Brigade supported by the Smialy armored train and the 21st Tank battalion. The German attack here sought to separate the Polish Lodz and Krakow Armies and effect a breakthrough to the Polish rear areas. The first major battle of WWII was fought here. Can you do as well or better than your historical counterparts? [Forum]