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.

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.

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.

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).

World at War #29: Norway 1940

New from Strategy & Tactics Press. World at War, Issue #29 featuring the insert game Norway 1940. An operational level wargame based on the German campaign to conquer Norway. The operation was a combined naval-air-land campaign in which all elements of military power were utilized. The historic campaign saw a German victory, but at the cost of much of the Kreigsmarine. Norway, 1940’s system is based on S&T’s award winning Red Dragon Rising system. It has been crafted to present the campaign as a unitary vision rather than a strictly sequenced process. The action can alternately telescope or expand, representing periods of rapid activity alternating with the slower process of building up forces. Price: $30.

NavTac WWI Naval Combat

New from Minden Games. The NavTac Series is composed of three separate titles covering WWI naval warfare using 1/3000 scale ship counters. Titles include:

• NavTac: Mediterranean ($13.95)
• NavTac: Pacific ($13.95)
• NavTac: Standard Rules ($7.95)

Each of the games in the NavTac game system uses 1/3000 scale ship counters (which must be cut apart) representing various ship types (BB, BC, B, AC, CL, AMC), rated in a variety of categories (type, displacement, main guns & secondary guns (each rated for range, bow, broadside, and stern firing), speed, armor, damage accumulation), using five minute turns, and very playable game mechanics, for two or more players. Rules cover movement, ranging fire, regular fire, regular and critical hit damage, weather, crew quality, torpedoes, national navy characteristics, and contain ship data necessary for play, and other advanced options. All you need to play is a pair of six-sided dice, tape measure, paper and pencil, and a large table-top or floor space.

France 1914

New from game designer, Lou Coatney. France 1914 is a FREE, Print-n-Play game covering the opening battles of the Western Front during WWI. Also, be sure to visit Lou’s site for other games including The Gazala Gallop, Patton’s Lorraine Campaign, and more! [download here | game replay]

The Last King of Scotland

New from Victory Point Games. The Last King of Scotland marks the first in the African Wars series by designer Dennis Bishop, simulating the Uganda-Tanzania War of 1978 - 1979 that ousted Uganda’s President for Life, Idi Amin Dada. Price: $27.95 (boxed) or $17.95 (polybag). Mounted map also available for $5.50.

Mediterranean Fury

New from High Flying Dice Games. Mediterranean Fury: The Battle of Cape Matapan is a wargame simulation on the naval action that occurred near Crete during World War II. The game design is and highly playable, yet one that portrays the historical challenges facing the combatants. Goaded by their German Allies into taking some sort of action to disrupt the British reinforcements being rushed to Greece, and smarting from the humiliation of the British air raid a few months earlier at Taranto, the Italian fleet set sail on March 27, 1941. Italian Admiral Iachino sought to intercept the British reinforcement convoys east of Crete. Admiral Cunningham, alerted to the Italian fleet’s sortie, set sail to do battle. The resultant clash off of Greece’s Cape Matapan on the 28th would be the only time the Italian Navy challenged the English for control of the Middle Sea. It would also be the last time the Royal Navy would do battle on the high seas with an enemy fleet. Price: $13.95 (add $4 for mounted counters).

B-29 Superfortress

Back in print from Legion Wargames. B-29 Superfortress is a solitaire game featuring the technologically most advanced bomber of the Second World War - the B-29 - flying as part of the Twentieth Air Force from the Marianas Islands against targets in and around Japan in late 1944 and 1945. Act now to get the Preorder Price of only $40 (save $15). [watch video]

Original D&D White Box Edition

New from Wizards of the Coast. The original Dungeons & Dragons White Box Edition that many of you may recall from 1974 is back. This deluxe, premium reprint of the original “White Box” features new packaging and includes seven booklets. Each booklet features new cover art but is otherwise a faithful reproduction of the original, including original interior art. Price: $149.99.