NEW RELEASES
- The Big Push (new from Hollandspiele)
a WWI card game from designer Renaud Verlaque (Age of Napoleon). Players attempt to make breakthroughs (and prevent their opponents from doing the same) with limited resources and even more limited information. Bluff and deception factor highly, and both players must make strategic decisions about the entire front before zooming in to contest specific areas with dynamic back-and-forth, tit-for-tat card play. [Forum]
- World at War, Issue 61: Peaks of the Caucasus (new from Decision Games)
the insert game simulates the German offensive in the southern Soviet Union in 1942, and the ensuing Soviet Counteroffensive. The German objective was initially the Caucasus oilfields, but the campaign turned into a struggle for the city of Stalingrad on the Volga. The game uses a variant of the “Boots system” to model higher echelon command-control and logistics, and their impact on the theater of operations. [Forum]
- America Falling: The Coming Civil War (new from One Small Step)
the first game in the Absent Superpower Series. America Falling enables two players to simulate the entire first year of a hypothesized near-future civil war--brought on by whatever is your own favorite reason--across all of the lower-48 states. This game was successfully funded on Kickstarter, and has just arrived in our warehouse. [Forum]
- Lock ‘n Load Tactical v5.0 Core Rules (new from Lock ‘n Load Publishing)
- Viva la Muerte! (new from High Flying Dice Games)
The Battle of Brunete, July 1937. The first half of 1937 was an almost complete series of disasters for the Republican cause in the north and west of Spain. Only in the territories leading to Madrid and to the south were the Nationalists thwarted, but at an increasingly bloody cost. The Soviet Union sent massive amounts of weaponry and equipment, while volunteers poured in from throughout Europe, the US and Canada to support the Republican cause. [Forum]
- Crossing Fate (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Crossing Fate is an introductory level wargame of the Battle of Issus that was fought by the forces of Darius the Great, King of Persia and Alexander the Great of Macedon along with his Greek Allies. To insure the security of the Macedonian Hegemony, and to wrest control of the Persian Empire’s territories bordering on the Aegean and Mediterranean, Alexander launched an invasion of Anatolia. [Forum]
- Brave and Noble Fights Expansion #2 (new from High Flying Dice Games)
The Brave and Noble Fights Expansion #2 is the third and final installment of campaigns and battles involving the Chinese before the turn of the 19th century. The Battle for Formosa was the final large-scale campaign associated with the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95. The island was ceded to Japan in April 1895 by the Treaty of Shimonoseki which ended the war but the island proclaimed its independence from China and formed a republic in May 1895 following Japan's victory. [Forum]
- Fort Sumter: The Secession Crisis, 1860-61 (new from GMT Games)
a two-player Card Driven Game (CDG) portraying the 1860 secession crisis that led to the bombardment of Fort Sumter and the American Civil War. Fort Sumter is a small footprint game (11x17” mounted map) that takes approximately 25-40 minutes to play. The game pits a Unionist versus a Secessionist player. Each player uses the area control mechanic pioneered in my We The People design and immortalized in Twilight Struggle to place, move, and remove political capital. The location of political capital determines who controls each of the four crisis dimensions (Political, Secession, Public Opinion, and Armaments). After three rounds of play, the game culminates in a Final Crisis confrontation to determine the winner. [Forum]
- Fighting Formations: Grossdeutschland Division’s Battle for Kharkov (new from GMT Games)
