NEW RELEASES
- S&T Issue 321: Paratrooper: Great Airborne Assaults, Korea (new from Decision Games)
Paratrooper: Great Airborne Assaults, Korea is a game system simulating airborne operations. There are two players, commanding the airborne and defending forces. Each game in the system will include one or more scenarios, representing different airborne operations. This game includes two scenarios: OPERATION TOMAHAWK: Ridgway Springs the Trap, March 1951 and SUKCHON-SUNCHON: Air Assualt on North Korea, October 1950. [Forum]
- Cataphract, 2nd Printing (new from GMT Games)
Cataphract portrays the development of the art of war wrought by the early Byzantine Empire, during the reign of Emperor Justinian, under his great Generals, Belisarius and Narses. During this period the Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, for a brief period of time, re-captured a large portion of what was formerly the Western Roman Empire. This edition includes the Battles of the Utus River (447 CE) and the Catalaunian Fields (451 CE) from the original Attila Scourge of God Module. [Forum]
- 1862: Railway Mania in the Eastern Counties (new from GMT Games)
- The Jaws of Victory (new from New England Simulations)
- Ostkrieg: WW II Eastern Front (new from Compass Games)
Ostkrieg: WW II Eastern Front is a compact, strategic-level game covering the struggle on the Eastern Front during World War II by game designer, Mitchell Ledford. This game utilizes the unique and fast-paced, card-driven combat/build system introduced in Pacific Tide. revolving around ground and air operations. While extremely competitive as a two-player game, Ostkrieg can be enjoyed again and again in solitaire play format with its unique, “personality” driven bot system. [Forum]
- Admirals’ War: World War II at Sea (new from Canvas Temple Publishing)
covering the strategic naval situation in WWII, from the early months of the Atlantic war to the decisive Battle of the Philippine Sea in late 1944. Admirals' War is a basic simulation of the war on a strategic level, with most of the tactical details represented by simple game mechanics. The resulting game is fast-paced and fun to play, but it is not as realistic as many other simulations. [Forum]
- C3i Magazine Nr 33: The Waterloo Campaign 1815 (new from RBM Studio)
- World at War, Issue 70: Great Pacific War (new from Decision Games)
Great Pacific War is a two player strategic simulation of hypothetical campaigns fought between the United States and Japan in the Pacific Theater of Operations sometime in the 1920s or 1930s. Units include
many forces which were planned but not built, such as US Navy battlecruisers. The game system shows the effects of various operations over the course of a scenario. [Forum] - 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]