NEW RELEASES
- La Bataille de Bautzen 1813 (new from Marshal Enterprises)
Limited availability...only 60 copies remain! The two-day battle which occurred on May 20 and May 21, 1813 between Napoleon’s newly reconstituted La Grande Armée and the Sixth Coalition’s Russo-Prussian army under the command of General Peter Wittgenstein. The battle took place in Eastern Saxony.Can the French wade through the carp ponds? Can the Coalition keep the Cossacks under control and hold off 200,000 French troops? This is ME’s seventh annual Fall publication from the surviving designers of the original La Bataille system who are dedicated to the study and celebration of the Age of Napoleon and the Age of Revolution. Seven maps; three games; over 1100 counters and a 180 page booklet from the cloud with rules; scenarios; historical commentary and complete OB's. [Forum]
- Okinawa! (new from Tiny Battle Publishing)
a two-player game recreating the land, sea, and air struggle for the possession of the Japanese island of Okinawa, from April to June 1945. Seen as the last steppingstone for the final jump toward Japan, the battle was important for both sides. The game covers the land battle for possession of Okinawa (focusing on the more military relevant southern part), and the concomitant air and naval struggle around it. [Forum]
- Second Great War at Sea: The Cruel Sea Expansion (new from Avalanche Press)
- Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah (new from GMT Games)
Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah is the seventh installment of the Great Battles of the American Civil War (GBACW) series. No less than eight full battles are included with multiple scenarios. They range from division level contests on half sized maps to two map battles between armies. Experienced players will be able to play many of the scenarios in one sitting. The rules compare the development of the cavalry, and the changes in infantry and artillery organization and tactics in 1862 and 1864. This series is one of the hobby’s longest-lived design concepts, springing from the legendary regimental level Gettysburg game – Terrible Swift Sword (SPI) – designed by Richard Berg in 1976. [Forum]
- World at War, Issue 68: France 1940 (new from Decision Games)
the insert game features France 1940, a two player game that allows players to examine the strategic possibilities inherent in the campaign that occurred within France and the Low Countries in that year. A second scenario allows for an alternative history examination of the opportunity the French had in September 1939 if they had kept their promise to launch a major offensive into Germany within a week after that nation invaded Poland. [Forum]
- Live Free or Die (new from Microgame Design Group)
an alternate history simulation of battles associated with a Communist invasion of continental USA. Live Free or Die is a game set consisting of three independent games: Asian Invasion captures the Peoples' Asian Alliance landings in California; Remember the Alamo covers the Organization of Central American States drive into Texas; and Southern Discomfort focuses on a Warsaw Pact invasion of Florida and Georgia. [Forum]
- CSS The Little Land, Novorossiysk (new from Compass Games)
CSS The Little Land – The Battle For Novorossiysk is the first game in the Nemesis series covering company level battles on the Eastern Front. With added special rules to cover the unique type of warfare on the Eastern Front, players will battle over the fate of the Kuban with tanks, amphibious invasions, paratroopers, naval ships and artillery. [Forum]
- Breaking the Ice (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Breaking the Ice: The 1942 Great Lakes “Winter Fleet”. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor the US was suddenly thrust into WW2. Every manufacturing concern was now faced with the daunting tasks of converting production facilities to wartime goods at levels never before seen during peacetime. The focus on the US steel industry was of particular concern, as nearly all weapons and wartime support derived from their factories and workers. This is a solitaire play game on the Great Lakes “Winter Fleet”. The player will have to allocate valuable resources and deploy the car ferry ice breakers to support the ore fleet in the mission of delivering the most ore to the production ports as possible, with a minimal amount of damage to the fleet as possible. [Forum]
- Depths of Courage (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Depths of Courage vol. 10: Raid on New York is a solitaire play game on the planned but never implemented Italian mini-sub and frogmen raid on New York Harbor in 1943. The Italian fleet submarine that was to ferry the mini-sub and frogmen, the Leonardo da Vinci, was sunk in the Bay of Biscay while training for the raid. It is one of the intriguing "what ifs" of WWII that board games are perfect for exploring to see if this was indeed feasible or fantasy. [Forum]