- Guards and Martyrs (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Guards and Martyrs: The Battle for Basra, December 1986-April 1987. Dubbed “Karbala 5” the Iranians amassed much of their Revolutionary Guard formations supported by new weapons secretly purchased from the “Great Satan” USA (via the illegal Iran-Contra affair) as well as North Korea. A feint attack north of the battlefield, Karbala 6, by much of the Iranian armored force would tie up Iraq’s reserves. The resulting battle for Basra was one of the largest and bloodiest battles fought in the war, with both sides fighting with all they had. In the end the battle for Basra would prove just as indecisive as the larger war, with neither side able to claim a clear victory. [Forum]
- To Rule the Waves (new from High Flying Dice Games)
To Rule The Waves is an introductory level wargame simulation on the British Navy’s bombardment of the Egyptian Forts at Alexandria in 1882, as well as several “what if” naval battles that could have occurred amongst the European powers in the Mediterranean during the 1880s. This decade was marked by peace amongst the Imperialist nations, but there were events that “rocked the boat” and could very easily have led to conflict; especially in Mediterranean Sea that for ages has been the nexus of commerce as well as conflict. This decade was also marked by tremendous innovation in warship design and tactics. [Forum]
- Interview with Paul Rohrbaugh
Designer of Seeing Red: The Raid on Kronstadt Harbor, August 18, 1919 from High Flying Dice Games
- Long Cruel Woman Review
- A Cold & Bitter Battle (new from High Flying Dice Games)
The Battle of River Raisin, January 22, 1813. Following General Isaac Hull’s surrender of the US Army’s surrender at Detroit, General Harrison was ordered north from Ohio and Indiana to salvage the fast-deteriorating situation. Dividing his forces into two columns, Harrison ordered General Winchester to join up with a smaller force of Michigan volunteers at Frenchtown. Learning of the larger US force coming from the south, British General Proctor left Detroit in the midst of the winter weather to deal with the growing US threat at the River Raisin. One of the most dramatic engagements of the war was about to ensue. [Forum]
- A Dark & Dasdardly Fight (new from High Flying Dice Games)
The Battle of Tippecanoe, November 7, 1811. By early 1811, tensions in the western portion of Ohio and the remaining Northwest Territory were increasing almost daily. Conflict with Great Britain loomed, and the Native American inhabitants were also alarmed regarding increasing US settler encroachments on their lands in violation of the 1795 Treaty of Greenville. This is the fourth game in the fourth title in the Battles of the Old Northwest Series (A Dark and Bloody Battleground and St. Clair’s Folly were released earlier). [Forum]
- Interview with Paul Rohrbaugh
- Seeing Red (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Seeing Red: The Raid on Kronstadt Harbor, August 18. 1919. A solitaire game on the British Royal Navy’s raid on the Kronstadt naval base during the Russian Revolution. Even before the armistice with Germany ended the fighting along the Western Front in WWI, British, French and US forces were deployed to attack Soviet controlled Russia to undermine and perhaps overthrow the Communists from power in Russia. One of the more daring Allied attacks occurred when a British flotilla of Coastal Motor Boats (CMB) was dispatched to raid the Soviet occupied naval base of Kronstadt. The raiders were supported by aircraft launched by the world’s first aircraft carrier, HMS Vindictive, making this one of the first combined air/sea attacks in military history. [Forum]
- Desert Eagles (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Desert Eagles: Air Battles Over Israel, 1948. Desert Eagles is an introductory level game about aerial combat set in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Israel’s victory in this war assured its status as an independent nation and set off decades of conflict with its Arab neighbors that lasts to this day. [Forum]
- Operation Fustian Review
- Operation Fustian (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Operation Fustian: The Battle for Primosole Bridge, July 12-15, 1943. The Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 essentially involved a race as to which force, British or American, would first take the port of Messina. The British forces landing near Syracuse had the shortest path, but that way was beset with numerous rivers that ran west to east and were easily defended. British airborne troops were given the task of taking the most heavily defended river position, the Primosole Bridge over the Simeto River in an attack dubbed "Operation Fustian". Unbeknownst the Allies the Germans also rushed airborne troops to help secure the position along with the Italian garrison. One of most costly and violent battles of the Sicilian campaign would be fought here. [Forum]
- Black Shirts, Red Blood (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Black Shirts, Red Blood: The Battle of Guadalajara, March 8-23, 1937. Following the successful stand by the Republicans at Madrid Nationalist Generalissimo, Francisco Franco, issued an urgent call for reinforcements to his Fascist German and Italian supporters. Dictator Benito Mussolini responded by sending tens of thousands of “volunteers” made up into the “Corpo di Truppe Volontarie” (CTV). The focus of the attack was the key crossroads town of Guadalajara north and east of Madrid; its capture would compel a Republican withdrawal that would severely weaken their hold on the capital. The largest battle of the Spanish Civil War to-date was about to be waged. [Forum]
- Eternal City’s End (new from High Flying Dice Games)
This solitaire or two player game portrays a series of “what ifs” based upon the historical situation following the Italian Armistice that was signed September 8, 1943. Starting from the historical positions of the Italian and German formations, one player, as the Italian, must try to save Rome from falling into German hands before the arrival of American paratrooper reinforcements to support them in rescuing the Eternal City from Nazi occupation. [Forum]
- Interview with Paul Rohrbaugh
- SAC: All-Out Nuclear War (new from High Flying Dice Games)
SAC: All-Out Nuclear War With the Soviet Union, October 1962: SAC is an introductory level, low complexity wargame simulation. It portrays a “what if” attack by the US Strategic Air Command (SAC) against the USSR. The premise of the game is that the Cuban “missile crisis” escalated to an all-out nuclear war between the Cold War protagonists. The game is designed for two players, one taking on the role of the attacking US forces and the other the defending air defense forces of the Soviet Union. The game can also be played solitaire. [Forum]
- Cold Confusion: The Soviet Raid on Iceland, 1985 (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Cold Confusion: The Soviet Raid on Iceland, 1985 covers an attack on NATO’s air and naval installations near Reykjavik, Iceland was assumed should war between the alliance and the Soviet Union break out. The airfield at Keflavik played a crucial role in Operation Reforger which would rush vital resupplies and reinforcements from the US and Canada to Western Europe. [Forum]
- Victory in Hell (new from High Flying Dice Games)
The First Battle of the Naktong River, August 5-19, 1950. North Korea’s invasion of the South in June was swift and devastating. The US-led UN coalition and surviving South Korean forces withdrew to a small perimeter centered on the South Korean port of Pusan. By August the North Korean forces, although bloodied by repeated US airstrikes and weakened by stragglers from their swift advance, were massed for what many thought would be a final offensive to take the rest of South Korea. [Forum]
- Interview with Paul Rohrbaugh
- Long Cruel Woman (new from High Flying Dice Games)
covers the attack on Firebase Mary Ann, March 28, 1971. By the Spring of 1971, for most Americans, the “light at the end of tunnel” that had become the War in Vietnam was in sight. Peace talks were well underway in Paris, as was “Vietnamization’; President Nixon’s official policy for turning over the bulk of the war effort and fighting to the forces of the ARVN (Army of the Republic of [South] Vietnam). As part of the transition the 23rd US Infantry Division, the “Americal”, was due to be rotated out of fighting and turning over its positions to the ARVN First Corps. [Forum]
- Mud, Blood & Steel Review