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PREORDER ALERTS

  • Third Megiddo: Titus vs John & Simon (ADMW Games Preorder)

    Third Megiddo. After massing the V, X, XII, and XV Legions; as well as auxiliaries throughout the entire Roman World at Megiddo, will you as General Titus then proceed south and successfully siege Jerusalem in AD 70? Will Israeli infighting, starvation, and desertion aid your campaign? Will battering rams and catapults be successfully deployed as the walls of Jerusalem crumble? [Forum]

  • Judges – Revolt of the Righteous (ADMW Games Preorder)

    Judges – Revolt of the Righteous will Othneil, Ehud, Barak, Deborah, Gideon, Tola, Jair, Ibzan, Elon, Abdon, and / or Samson deliver Israel from the hands of their oppresors? Will these Judges help turn the hearts of the Hebrew people back to the God of Abraham, Isaaic, and Jacob? Will they unite Israel sufficiently to restore her independence, peace, and prosperity? The first time this topic has been covered in a boardgame. [Forum]

  • Tacticus (ADMW Games Preorder)

    Tacticus is a “Fog of War” game with Hebrews Heroes (David, Joshua, Samson, Joab, Caleb, Othniel, Ehud, Abishai, Benaiah & Jehu) vs. Heathen Heroes (Nimrod, Antiochus Epiphanes, Ahab, Ahiman, Sheshai, Talmai, Endore Witch, Og, Goliath & Beast). The Heathen and Hebrews have to capture each others’ King. Mountains, spy’s, projectiles, & strategy cards add complexity to the otherwise straight forward field of battle. This is a 2 player game lasting about 30 minutes. Can you protect your King while capturing your opponents? [Forum]

  • 303 Squadron (Hobbity @ Kickstarter)

    303 Squadron is now live on kickstarter. This "co-operative" game lets 1-4 players work together as part of the highest scoring British fighter squadron in the Battle of Britain. Beautiful components and map. Available for pledge support now through December 21.

  • 2GM Pacific (Draco Ideas @ Kickstarter)

    2GM Pacific is a new tabletop wargame for 1 to 4 players, fully compatible with all other titles of the 2GM Tactics series, but you don’t need them to play it. I has a strong army-building component, where cards represent military units and the various actions they can perform on the battlefield.

  • A Victory Awaits (Multi-Man Publishing Preorder)

    Famed Japanese designer Tetsuya Nakamura, who created A Victory Lost, Fire in the Sky, A Most Dangerous Time, and What Price Glory?, returns to the East Front with A Victory Awaits. Using a lightly modified version of the A Victory Lost system, the game covers Operation Barbarossa from June 22 to mid-September. [Forum]

  • 1941: Race to Moscow (Phalanx @ Kickstarter)

    Takes the basic 'engine" from 2014's award-winning "Race for the Rhine" and adds a little more depth and complexity to offer the logistics nightmare we all remember about Barbarossa. For 3 players, 2 players, or 3 different versions of a Solo game! Significant savings over retail and nd some sweet stretch goals. Kickstarter live through Dec. 11. [Forum]

  • Libertadores App and Boardgame (Avalon Digital @ Kickstarter)

    Libertadores represents the wars of independence of the Spanish Colonies in America. A turn-based computer game and board game covering the whole Spanish American Empire and its vicinity. Discover in the game the most famous units and leaders of the war.

GAME REVIEWS

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NEW RELEASES

  • Abraham: Father of Nations (new from ADMW Games)
    Abraham: Father of Nations (new from ADMW Games)

    Will you as Abram move from UR? Will you establish the Covenant of Circumcision? Will you pretend Sarai is your sister, rather than your wife? Will your wealth increase? Will your faith enable you to become the Father of Nations? What will your relationship with Lot be? Will you petition God for mercy for the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah? Will you save Lot in battle?Father Abraham is a 1-4 player 1-2 hour cooperative game wherein Team Abraham has to pass numerous Divine tests, travel various places, increase wealth, and walk by faith. [Forum]

  • The Last Vikings (new from Strategemata)
    The Last Vikings (new from Strategemata)

    recreates two battles in which the Swedish army was victorious, Kliszow (1702) and Fraustadt (1706). Basic rules are similar to published in 2016 game Bloody Fields of Mollwitz. The distinctive aspects of this game include army activation and fire/melee resolution based on a unit's morale. [Forum]

  • Nevsky, Teutons and Rus in Collision, 1240-1242 (new from GMT Games)
    Nevsky, Teutons and Rus in Collision, 1240-1242 (new from GMT Games)

    Nevsky is a board wargame about the storied clash between Latin Teutonic and Orthodox Russian powers along the Baltic frontier of the mid-13th-Century. It is the first volume in GMT Games’ Levy & Campaign Series portraying military operations in a variety of pre-industrial conflicts. [Forum]

  • Noah & Sons: Master Ship Builders (new from ADMW Games)
    Noah & Sons: Master Ship Builders (new from ADMW Games)

    Noah & Sons Master Ship Builders is an exciting, interactive, cooperative 90 minute card-driven game of 1-4 players who must skillfully work together to build & provision a three-story massive ship. The Ark was 510 feet long, 85 feet wide, & 51 feet high. It contained the equivalent space of 450 semi-trailers of cargo and housed approximately 6,750 animals. Can your team of players repeat Noah’s epic achievement in time? [Forum]

  • CounterFact, Issue 11: Czech Legion (new from One Small Step)
    CounterFact, Issue 11: Czech Legion (new from One Small Step)

    issue 11 of CounterFact features the insert game, Czech Legion: A solitaire game on that elite unit's escape from the nascent Soviet Union just after WW1 by Javier Romero. [Forum]

  • Cold Confusion: The Soviet Raid on Iceland, 1985 (new from High Flying Dice Games)
    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]

  • Westphalia (new from Hollandspiele)
    Westphalia (new from Hollandspiele)

    Westphalia concerns the diplomatic negotiations and military campaigns that brought an end to the Thirty Years War and Eighty Years War. The question isn't a matter of who "wins" the war - that was decided a long time ago. Instead, each player seeks to arrive at a settlement that meets their own political, confessional, and economic goals. These goals are not mutually exclusive: if multiple players meet their victory conditions, they all win. The trick is, if all six players manage to meet their goals, then the game goes to a scoring round, and only one player wins. [Forum]

  • Custoza: Fields of Doom (new from Europa Simulazioni)
    Custoza: Fields of Doom (new from Europa Simulazioni)

    covering Two critical battles during the 1st and 3rd Italian War of Independence, Custoza 1848 and 1866. A regimental-level treatment of the battles which determined the outcome of the wars. Several scenarios and two great campaign scenarios with advanced rules. Three sheets of large counters and two big maps of the Lake Garda region. A completely new system for the battles of Risorgimento. [Forum]

  • Horse & Matchlock Expansion (new from Hollandspiele)
    Horse & Matchlock Expansion (new from Hollandspiele)

    an Expansion for Horse & Musket featuring new unit types and firing procedures that embodies the tactics and technologies of the era of Tilly and Gustavus Adolphus, Oliver Cromwell and Rupert of the Rhine, Condé and Turenne. Featuring twelve scenarios drawn from the great battles of the Thirty Years War, the Franco-Spanish War, Franco-Dutch War, and Scanian War. [Forum]

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    Register for the Compass Games Year in Review episode scheduled for Thurs, Dec. 19 @ 8:30pm Central [Register here]

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