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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]
Operation Veritable review by Marco Arnaudo [watch @2d6.org]
Hurtgen: Hell's Forest
New from Decision Games. Hurtgen: Hell’s Forest is a grand-tactical simulation of that enormous campaign. The 2,240 counters in the game represent almost every formation, at company and battalion levels, which fought in the battle, including US, German, British, and even Belgian units. Infantry, armor, anti-tank, reconnaissance, engineer, assault gun, howitzer, rocket, parachute, ranger, glider, and headquarters units are all fully represented in the counter-mix. The two map sections are an accurate representation of the battle area and were compiled from 1944 German staff maps and 1943-1944 US Army map sources. This is the latest entry in the Grand Operational Simulation Series (which began with Wacht am Rhein), and presents further refinements to the combat, artillery and supply subsystems in order to better depict tactical and operational warfare at this scale. Price: $120.
Wacht Am Rhein, 2012 Edition
New from Decision Games. Wacht Am Rhein, 2012 Edition is a grand-tactical simulation of that Battle of the Bulge. This 2012 edition of Wacht am Rhein presents modifications to the combat, artillery and supply systems of the first edition in order to better depict tactical and operational warfare. For example, an “exploitation mode” has been added in order to allow mechanized units to take advantage of breakthroughs in the enemy line. Other changes include the addition of “vantage points,” which function as high ground, enabling units to spot more effectively for artillery, as well as “constricted terrain,” which represents the channeling caused by steep gullies and ravines. Price: $160.
Duel in the Dark overview by Mark Jessop @ Rusted Dice [watch @youtube]
Vae Victis #104: Bruneval 1942
New from Vae Victis. Issue #104 is now available featuring the Special Game Edition, Bruneval 1942 (Raid sur Bruneval 1942 — also known as “Operation Biting”), covering the raid by British paratroopers under Major Frost’s command to capture a German radar near Bruneval (northwestern France) during the night of February 2, 1942. This is a tactical-level, solitaire game featuring an A3 Map and 108 die cut-counters. Price: 14,95 €. English rules available here.
Battle of the Bulge App on Kickstarter
Shenandoah Studio announces a Kickstarter Project for Battle of the Bulge for iPad. Battle of the Bulge is the first game by Shenandoah Studio, a group of veteran game designers and developers who have come together to publish top quality strategy games on the iPad, in the spirit of classic board games. Battle of the Bulge is a serious historical simulation game about the famous World War Two battle. John Butterfield, one of the most accomplished game designers ever, has created Bulge from the start for the iPad. See Kickstarter Page for Pledge options.
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).
Liberty Roads review by Marco Arnaudo [watch @2d6.org]
White Star Rising: Operation Cobra
New from Lock ‘n Load Publishing. White Star Rising: Operation Cobra is an expansion for White Star Rising in the Nations at War series. This expansion focuses on the events surrounding the Allied breakout from the Normandy beachhead over the course of a month in July-August 1944. White Star Rising: Operation Cobra adds the Canadians, the Free French, and the Free Polish to the Nations at War series in addition to new units for the Americans, British, and the Germans. Price: $24.99.
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Lady Nancy Astor said to Churchill, “If you were my husband, I’d poison your tea,” to which he responded, “Madam, if...
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Anti-aircraft gun on a Moscow roof top, the Kremlin in the background. Ferocity of Moscow’s anti-aircraft defenses surprised the Luftwaffe
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Defeat Into Victory and issue #36 of ATO
北はミイトキーナや雲南はばっさりカット。コヒマも無し。開戦時の焦点だったモールメンもマップ外となっている。
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