May 2012
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Socrates' Battles →
New from TCS Games. Socrates’ Battles marks the fourth entry in the Glory that was Greece series. This print ‘n play game covers the two battles from the Peloponnesian War — Delium and Amphipolis. Featuring two A4 maps, 150 counters, cards, charts, series and exclusive scenarios rulebook. Price: $3.50.
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Compass Games 2012 Catalog
Compass Games has produced a truly spiffy, full color 2012 mail-order catalog featuring 16 pages of product information. A great reference to throw in with any of your Compass Games or other product literature you like to collect. To get yours, simply submit your mailing address directly to sales@compassgames.com and mention you wish to receive their catalog.
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Episode #4 of Guns, Dice, Butter — a...
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Panzer Grenadier: War on the Equator →
New from Avalanche Press. Panzer Grenadier: War on the Equator is a supplement for the Panzer Grenadier system based on the battles waged between Peru and Ecuador in 1941. This module is not playable by itself, but requires ownership of Eastern Front and Road to Berlin. There are six scenarios, each based on an actual battle and featuring tank assaults, parachute landings, amphibious assaults,...
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Naval SITREP #42 →
New from Clash of Arms. Naval SITREP #42 covers the Admiralty Trilogy with various feature articles including special coverage on the new generation of Russian warships. Price: $6.95 (or check out their annual subs).
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Popular Front: Escalation Preorder →
Preorder from Numbskull Games. Popular Front: Escalation expands the base game covering the Spanish Civil War by adding 54 cards and new powers for each faction, encouraging players to develop unique strategies for each of the six factions. It also introduces new retreat and naval combat rules that increase the strategic depth of the combat system. The stakes of each turn’s political...
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Sturm Nach Osten →
New from Six Angles (Japan). Sturm Nach Osten is the centerpiece of Special Edition #8 from Six Angles magazine. Sturm is a strategic-level simulation for two players of the conflict between the Axis and the Soviet Union in the Second World War. The game has two versions, basic and advanced, and in each version players can choose between a number of scenarios, including the entire campaign from...
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1989: Dawn of Freedom →
New from GMT Games. 1989: Dawn of Freedom is an exciting, fast-paced game simulating the end of the Cold War in 1989. During this amazing year, a series of democratic revolutions ended the 40 year Soviet empire in Eastern Europe. 1989 simulates the political, social and economic aspects of these revolutions using a card driven system similar to Twilight Struggle. Price: $65.
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Virgin Queen →
New from GMT Games. Virgin Queen is a game of grand strategy for two to six players based on the military, political and religious conflicts within Europe during the reigns of Elizabeth I of England and Philip II of Spain. Virgin Queen is the sequel to Here I Stand, another card-driven game of grand strategy that covered the previous forty years (from Martin Luther’s posting of his 95 Theses in...
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5 Year CSW EoTS Staff Game Anniversary →
Editor’s Note: Posting by Mark Herman Back in early 2007, I started a challenge match against the Empire of the Sun topic folder gamers. That first game morphed into an organized continuous set of team matches with the latest game beginning tomorrow, Sunday, which has become traditional. It is and continues to be a great time that has developed an extensive body of strategies with new ones...
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In Magnificent Style Review →
Hermann Luttmann @ The Boardgaming Life
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“If you would like to play a simple North Africa game in a reasonable amount of...”
– Jay Townsend @ CSW Forum [related story]
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No Question of Surrender →
New from Multi-Man Publishing. No Question of Surrender takes the Grand Tactical Series to North Africa! Taking the acclaimed system used in The Devil’s Cauldron, this game gives players the chance to explore the struggle of the free French forces, including two Foreign Legion battalions, as they attempt to hold out against the might of Rommel’s Panzerarmee Afrika at the southern tip of the...
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Hurtgen: Hell's Forest →
New from Decision Games. Hurtgen: Hell’s Forest is a grand-tactical simulation of that enormous campaign. The 2,240 counters in the game represent almost every formation, at company and battalion levels, which fought in the battle, including US, German, British, and even Belgian units. Infantry, armor, anti-tank, reconnaissance, engineer, assault gun, howitzer, rocket, parachute, ranger,...
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Wacht Am Rhein, 2012 Edition →
New from Decision Games. Wacht Am Rhein, 2012 Edition is a grand-tactical simulation of that Battle of the Bulge. This 2012 edition of Wacht am Rhein presents modifications to the combat, artillery and supply systems of the first edition in order to better depict tactical and operational warfare. For example, an “exploitation mode” has been added in order to allow mechanized units to take...
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Death Ride Salerno: 16th Panzer Expansion →
New from Grognard Simulations. Death Ride Salerno: 16th Panzer Expansion is the third installment in the Death Ride Salerno series. This game builds on the first two and adds in elements of the British X Corps, providing the forces that fought in the northern part of the battlefield. The main focus of this area is the battle for Battipaglia. The British 201st Guards Brigade ran into stiff German...
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Divided Republic Preorder →
[update: Act quickly — preorder ends today!] Preorder from Numbskull Games. Divided Republic is a card-driven game for 2-4 players representing the last calm before the storm that was to become the American Civil War. Players represent the four major parties (Constitutional Unionists, Northern Democrats, Republicans, and Southern Democrats) and attempt to win the presidency. Preorder...
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Tank on Tank Review →
Richard Mataka @ mataka.org [related video]
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Shenandoah Review →
Richard Mataka @ mataka.org [related video]
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Thirty Years War Replay →
Stephen Brasseur @ Yockbo’s Boardgame Blog
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Kabinettskrieg: Lace Wars Grand Campaign Module →
Monster Game Enthusiasts, Rejoice! New from Red Sash Games. Kabinettskrieg: Lace Wars Grand Campaign Module links three other Lace Wars™ games — Cockpit of Europe, Sport of Kings, and Queens’ Gambit in one monster campaign scenario covering the entire War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) in its three Continental theatres of operation: Flanders, Germany, and Italy. The module...
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In Magnificent Style →
New from Victory Point Games. In Magnificient Style marks the first entry in the Death or Glory! series, In Magnificent Style. This is a solitaire game depicting the final desperate Confederate attack on 3 July 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg, popularly known as Pickett’s Charge. Price: $24.95.
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Vae Victis #104: Bruneval 1942 →
New from Vae Victis. Issue #104 is now available featuring the Special Game Edition, Bruneval 1942 (Raid sur Bruneval 1942 — also known as “Operation Biting”), covering the raid by British paratroopers under Major Frost’s command to capture a German radar near Bruneval (northwestern France) during the night of February 2, 1942. This is a tactical-level, solitaire game featuring...
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Raid and Riposte Replay →
hipshot @ The Big Board Raid and Repost is the insert game in Line of Fire #12
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High Frontier Review →
Two Reviews: Michael Peck @ Foreign Policy and Dave Davies @ BoardGameGeek
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Beer, Chicks and Wargames →
[Update: Now available online in 38 countries] The book title says it all: Beer, Chicks and Wargames: The 6-Year College Plan. In this honest, humorous and sometimes critical look at college life in America, author Gregory Spikeman takes readers on a nostalgic ride through the ‘90s, where he revisits the music, culture, technology and the dysfunctional youth known as Generation X.
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Lost Reich Miniatures Game Review →
Charlie Hall @ Armchair General
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Extra Episode 38 — The Gaming Gang
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Battles Magazine #8: Wagram 1809 →
New from Battles Magazine. Issue #8 featuring 148 pages of content pages of reviews, analysis and articles and the insert game, Wagram 1809, covering one of the Napoleon’s greatest victory. A game by Laurent Martin (Bull Run 1861, Cedar Creek 1864, Operation Husky). View the sample components and skim through the pages of the magazine. Price €21 (savings of €5 if you order before 15 May).
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Crassus in Aquitania →
New from War-game-programming. Crassus in Aquitania is a computer game covering the campaign of one of Caesar’s lieutenants to subdue the rebelling tribes of the Aquitania area of Gaul. The game features unlimited stacking and a battle board system to resolve combat. The game has special rules for hill forts (Opidiums), sieges, artillery, ambushes, concealed forces, retreat before combat,...
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At Neuve Chapelle →
New from White Dog Games. At Neuve Chapelle is a tactical recreation of this World War I battle. The British attempted to reduce a poorly-defended German salient centered on the town of Neuve Chapelle. Plans were to expand a breakthrough and with cavalry and infantry reserves take the Aubers ridge line. However, poor communication and coordination and the weather conspired to slow the initial...
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