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Road to Cheren review by Marco Arnaudo [watch @2d6.org | related story]
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.
Blood & Sand Review
Patrick Baker @ Armchair General
In Blood & Sand, a game of WWII campaigns in North Africa, Richard Berg offers a system that replaces Combat Results Charts with “bucket o’ dice” rules in which each counter gets a varying amount of dice with which players try to roll to-hit numbers. Opportunity cards cover historical events such as the U.S. motorizing its infantry. The ArmchairGeneral.com review says it has high replay value and enough depth for experienced gamers while offering a good introductory gaming experience as well. [related story]
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).
Operation Skorpion Preorder
Preorder from Compass Games. Operation Skorpion is a Randy Heller game design recreating Rommel’s First Strike against the British at Halfaya Pass. This brief yet violent battle is brought to life with a new fog of war system that will keep gamer’s guessing and allows for both players to punch and counter punch. Preorder Price: $42 (save $13). Anticipated release date: April 2013.
Paper Wars #77: Anzio — Operation Shingle
New from Compass Games. Paper Wars issue #77 featuring the insert game, Anzio: Operation Shingle. This game from designer David Murray covers the 1944 battle for Anzio, from the initial landings on 22nd January to the failed German offensives to eliminate the Allied beachhead by 1st of March. The game features historical military units of regimental and brigade size, with some selected battalions, portrayed uisng rectangular counters. Oversized hexes allow for deployment of units on the map in defensive or attack frontages. Both players have army and divisional assets, plus Tactical Tokens at their disposal. Tactical tokens and their use on a Combat Grid provide a unique battle resolution system. Issue Price: $31.95 with subscriptions also available.
Tank Battle: North Africa
New from Hunted Cow Studios. Tank Battle: North Africa recreates the North African theatre of war at the height of the conflict in World War II. Players take control of British and American units and must lead the allies to victory in a series of challenging attacks, raids, defensive actions and battles. Price: $1.99 [available at App Store | related story]
Armored Knights North Afrika: Operation Venezia
New from Grognard Simulations. Armored Knights North Afrika: Operation Venezia is the expansion for Operation Crusader featuring nine scenarios, including Operation Battleaxe. Small, sharp and fun. Scenarios also cover the actions around Bir Hacheim, the 50th Brigade Box, the Fall of Tobruk, the Destruction of the British Armor at Knightsbridge, the Panzer Armee in the Cauldron, and some free setup scenarios that will allow you to experiment. New countersheets included, ownership of Operation Crusader is required. Price: $60.
S&T #278: Tobruk 1941
New from Strategy & Tactics Press. Strategy & Tactics issue #278 which has been upgraded to a new 84 page perfect bound format and featuring the insert game, Tobruk 1941. Tobruk uses the same system as Sedan: The Decisive Battle for France, May 1940. Tobruk is a simulation of British Eighth Army’s Operation Crusader, the attempt to relieve the Tobruk garrison during the period from November to early December 1941, with each turn representing two days. The units in the game represent regiments (228 counters), and operate according to a chit-pull divisional-command activation system. Movement and combat are randomized by each division’s potential activation, such that the general course of play goes a long way toward simulating the fog of war in a simple yet realistic manner and without the need for special rules. As a new addition to this system (not present in Sedan), to simulate the more pronounced effect of long-range anti-tank guns in desert terrain, units with AT capability are identified, and they’re given the capability to engage enemy armor as it approach, just as the infamous 88s did at Hellfire Pass. Price: $30.
LnL: Mare Nostrum Preorder
Preorder from Lock ‘n Load Publishing. LnL: Mare Nostrum is the first complete Lock ‘n Load series game (you need not own anything else) to feature the desert battles of World War Two. The large, standalone module features nearly 700 die-cut counters, representing Italians, Germans, British, French, and Americans, five mounted, geomorphic game boards along with die-cut terrain overlays, which is another Lock ‘n Load first. Preorder Price: starting at $59.99 (save $25).
Afrika (1st Edition) review by Enrico CS Viglino [watch @2d6.org | extensive video coverage]
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German soldiers in Kharkov, October 1941
