A Test of Mettle

New from High Flying Dice Games. A Test of Mettle is part of the all-new, Professional Series of titles. This entry features three separate battles from the Allied Campaign in the Lorraine, 1944. The three games included are: Patton’s Finest: the Battle of Arracourt, Revanche! The Battle of Dompaire, and Tough Hombres: The Battle of Mairy. Price: $45. [Learn more about each game]

Bloody Hell

New from High Flying Dice Games. Bloody Hell: Operations Goodwood and Spring is part of the all-new, Professional Series of titles. This entry features two games in one package that can be played separately or combined. Units are mostly battalions, each hex is approximately 300 meters across and a day turn represents an hour’s time. One game covers Operation Goodwood, the Allied July 18-19 offensive to break out of the Normandy Bridgehead south of Caen. Price: $45. [Learn more about each game]

High Flying Dice Games Special

Special offer from High Flying Dice Games. To celebrate the release of Bloody Hell and Test of Mettle, as well as celebrate the start of the 2012 Gaming Convention Season, any purchase of three or more games (professional and/or DTP) will also receive one of the following minigames for free (purchaser’s choice):

• A Clash of Lions: The Battle of Giradi Pass
• Fighting Eagles: Aerial Combat in 1918
• Courage Under Fire: The Battle for An Loc

Blitzkrieg Undone

New from High Flying Dice Games. Blitzkrieg Undone is a low complexity level game of the battle between the French Armed forces and Germany’s Wehrmacht on May 12th and 13th, 1940 at Hannut, Belgium. The Allies anticipated the Germans would strike through neutral Belgium as they had in WWI, and planned on confronting them there on the Belgian plain. Here the 1st and 2nd French Light Mechanized Divisions, heavily armed with tanks, ran into the 3rd and 4th Panzer divisions. One of the first large tank battles of the war was about to begin…. Price: $13.95 (mounted counters $4 extra).

King of the Hills

New from High Flying Dice Games. King of the Hills is a moderate complexity level war game simulation of the climatic battle fought near Kap-Yong during the Korean War. The game features two 11x17” maps, 312 half-inch counters, two player aid sheets, and eight pages of rules. Price: $17.95 (or $22.95 for mounted counters).

HFDG March Madness Offer

[expired] Special offer from High Flying Dice Games during the month of March only. Order three or more titles and get one of the following mini-games for free (your pick):

• A Clash of Lions: The Battle of Giradi Pass
• Fighting Eagles: Aerial Combat in 1918
• Courage Under Fire: The Battle of An Loc

Any order of 7 or more games and two of the mini-games are free. An order of 10 or more games and all three mini-games are free! If the purchased titles are ordered with mounted counters then the free bonus mini-game(s) will also have free mounted counters.

Courage Under Fire

New from High Flying Dice Games. Courage Under Fire is a low complexity, low counter density game on the assault on An Loc during the North Vietnamese Easter Offensive in 1972. The game uses area movement and interesting chrome such as NVA sappers, variable applications for artillery bombardment and of course airstrikes as the ARVN is hard pressed to duplicate the efforts of the 5th Infantry. The game is easily playable solitaire and short enough to be played more than once in an evening for competitive players. Price: $5.95.

A Bold Fight

New from High Flying Dice Games. A Bold Fight details the decisive battle of Mobile Bay fought on August 5th, 1864. One of the most violent and decisive naval battles of the American Civil War has players use a standard deck of cards to activate their warships and fortress batteries to resolve combat such as gunnery, ramming and torpedo/mines. Play is very interactive and intense, but without any of the tedious record keeping of many naval games. Price: $11.95.

Zhukov's Final Victory/Konev's Gambit

New from High Flying Dice Games. Zhukov’s Final Victory/Konev’s Gambit is a low complexity level, two-player wargame on the battle for the capital of Nazi Germany, Berlin. Konev’s Gambit is an expansion game for Zhukov’s Final Victory that extends play to include the offensive by Marshall Konev’s 1st Ukrainian Front to take Berlin. Konev’s Gambit is suited for two players, as well as solitaire play. Both games combined allows for three players as participants to take on the roles of the German Army and the two Soviet Front commanders. Price: $17.95.

Fox's Gambit: The Gazala Campaign

New from High Flying Dice Games. Fox’s Gambit: The Gazala Campaign is a low complexity level simulation of the Gazala campaign fought in May/June 1942 between the Axis forces led by Gen. Erwin Rommel and Gen. Auchinleck’s Eighth Army. Price: $11.95. [related story]