Struggle for New France

New from Schutze Games. Struggle for New France is an introductory level point-to-point movement wargame covering the Seven Years War (1754-1762), focusing on events occurring in North America as a grand campaign game. Players take on the role of either the governor of New France or the British American colonies as they struggle to conduct a war with the limited resources available and unpredictable support both locally and from home as determined by their separate decks of 31 event cards. Price: $43.

First Strike '62

New from Schutze Games. First Strike ‘62 is Bruce Costello’s new design using the First Strike system, covering the Cuban Missile Crisis when both sides relied on heavy bomber forces. Using historically accurate strategic (ie Nuclear) force structures the players will be responsible for fighting the war on a global scale when the diplomats fail. Price: $58.

Decision Games 25th Anniversary Sale

Decision Games is celebrating 25 years in business and in honor of this milestone Doc Cummins has put together a retrospective of DG’s 25 years in the gaming industry. Read Part One - The Pre-History of Decision Games now and watch for the continuing story over the next 25 days. Decision Games is also holding a 25th Anniversary Sale and will have one DG Box Game on sale at 25% every day for 25 days.

Red Menace

New from White Dog Games. Red Menace is a solitaire wargame pitting the strategic nuclear and defensive forces of the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom against those of the Soviet Union and its client state, Cuba, in 1959. The game focuses primarily on the role of strategic bombers, but other types of supporting aircraft such as Interceptors, Airborne Early Warning planes, and Aerial Refueling Tankers are also represented. Price: $28 boxed edition or $22 folio, plus shipping. $15 for Print-n-Play edition.

Fortress Berlin Special Offer

Special offer from Against the Odds Magazine. April, 1945. The last major battle of WW2 in Europe begins. Berlin. To commemorate the Battle for Berlin, ATO Magazine is running a special offer, now through May 3rd, 2013… full of choices!

Fortress Berlin is an award-winner and ATO’s best-selling game of all time. Now you can have it, for FREE. And, you can score every expansion and variant too! You will find a “Column A” and a “Column B” of choices — great deals — and can score either a complete, ziplock version, or a deluxe, boxed version, crammed full of extras, including the “On to Berlin” variant. [view special offer]

Flight of the Eagle, Volume III Preorder

Preorder from Pratzen Editions. The Flight of the Eagle marks the third and last volume of our Napoleonic campaign rules. This game system is an umpired, double-blinded system in which players communicate only through written messages. It uses maps of that time and a simple system to manage units. Combats are solved using a face to face system, simple but precise, with the morale as the main endpoint. Combats can also be solved using any existing operational or tactical system including miniatures.

The present volume 3 does not need the volume 1 or 2 to be played. It includes four booklets (three are over 60 pages) including all the rules of volume 1 and 2, a new edition of the tactical rules The Eagle Fights, 50 pages of data to transfer all the armies of the time between both systems, the special rules of the ten campaigns included: Bavaria and Austria 1809, France 1814 and the eight Peninsula campaigns in Spain and Portugal (around one a year between 1808 and 1814). Seven maps and 52 units sheets are included. Preorder Price: $80 (save 30).

OSG Moving Sale...save 50%!

Operational Studies Group is moving their offices to Paris! In celebration of the big move, they are holding a Moving Sale with everything 50% off for a limited time. Act now before such incredible savings are gone.

Road to Cheren

New from Revolution Games. The Road to Cheren covers the Eritrea campaign in East Africa in 1941. The campaign featured British and French forces versus the Italians in a wild and mountainous country. Cheren is a game where the movement of each piece is critical. There is also a chit pull system to give both sides some special abilities and keep the enemy guessing as to what comes next. Finally some Italian native units may decide to join the Allies, or they may stay loyal, which creates extra tension in the game. Price: $21.

Crossfire Hurricane

New from High Flying Dice Games. Crossfire Hurricane: The Battle of Long Tan covers the August 18, 1966 fight between the Australians and Viet Cong at the Long Tan rubber plantation. This was the largest engagement fought by the Aussies in South Vietnam, and one in which they prevailed against numbers almost 6 times their own, and in the midst of monsoon like weather! This revised edition features new Line of Sight rules, a much revised two section map, and entirely new graphics by Bruce Yearian. The game uses a very interactive chit-pull design that emphasizes unit cohesion, leadership and two differing types of combat (fire and assault). Game includes two 11 by 17 inch hex maps, 280 double sided, un-mounted counters, and 9 pages of rules/charts. Price: $17.95 (mounted counters $5 extra).

Battle of Adobe Walls

New from Legion Wargames. The Battle of Adobe Walls covers one of the largest battles between U.S. and Great Plains Indians. Kit Carson was given command of the US forces, and his mission was to find the Comanche and Kiowa winter camps and eliminate this threat to the settlers that were moving into and through this area of the Texas panhandle. Order before end of April and pay only $40 Preorder Price ($56 thereafter — a savings of $16!).

Modern War #5: Drive on Pyongyang

New from Strategy & Tactics Press. Modern War, Issue #5 featuring the insert game Drive on Pyongyang. Designed by Ty Bomba, this an updated “what-if” simulation of the fighting that might occur on the Korean peninsula if the US-led anti-terrorism Coalition launches a ground war to finally settle with the Pyongyang regime. The game is a two-player wargame of low-to-intermediate complexity that postulates this might-be war lasting about a month. We believe that’s about the maximum time before the Coalition ground force’s diminishing supplies, coupled with a loss of the domestic political will necessary to continue the fighting, would bring about a settlement if victory were not achieved in the field. Price: $30.

Battle for Stalingrad on Kickstarter

Now on Kickstarter from Dan Verssen Games. Battle for Stalingrad is a card based wargame focusing on one of the most brutal periods of the Second World War. With the help of backers, we’ll be able to make the game better than ever. We have plans for some interesting stretch goals including a whole new deck that will add even more options to the game. The campaign closes on April 29, but your early support will help us get the game noticed and funded. [visit Kickstarter page]

A Reign of Missiles

New from High Flying Dice Games. A Reign of Missiles: The Gaza Missile Crisis is a solitaire play game on the November, 2012 war fought between Israel and Hamas-controlled Gaza. The active player takes on the role of the Israeli military’s high command as they fend off the Hamas missiles and attempt to take out their launchers. You have a preponderance of military force, but it will take skill and luck to keep the crisis from escalating into a larger conflict that could engulf the entire region. Game design by Paul Rohrbaugh with graphics by Bruce Yerian. The game’s components include one 11 by 17 inch map, 140 double-sided, un-mounted counters and 8 pages of rules. Price: $11.95 (mounted counters  for an additional $4).

Avalanche Press Spring Fling

Avalanche Press is offering no less than 83 games and supplements at 30% off at their web store, as long as you order at least $100 worth of their games and supplements. Use the coupon code GINA to get your savings. On the Shopping Cart screen, you’ll see a small window on the left-hand side that reads “Coupon code (optional).” Type in GINA and click “Apply.”