NEW RELEASES
- The Field of the Cloth of Gold (new from Hollandspiele)
This game was created to commemorate the five hundredth anniversary of the world’s most famous three-week party, in which King Henry VIII of England, and Francis I of France, spent ridiculous amounts of money and resources to peacock at each other. Through smiles made of gritted teeth, the game’s two players will express friendship: each action they take will give their opponent a tile that they might use to score. [Forum]
- Trois Batailles en Allemagne (new from Legion Wargames)
Vive l'Empereur Series is a simulation of the battles fought during the Napoleonic Era in Europe, between 1805 and 1815. The scale is the regiment, a good compromise between the brigade level (with no formations) and the detailed battalions. The scale is 250 m/hex and a turn is 30 minutes. This is Volume IX and includes: Jéna, Auerstaedt and Le siège de Danzig. [Forum]
- Paper Wars, Issue 95: Hannibal (new from Compass Games)
featuring the insert game, Hannibal: The Italian Campaign, 218-208 BC by Stephen Newberg. This is a medium complexity strategic study of the Second Punic War. Turns represent a year of campaigning with map hexes scaled to 40 kilometers. The game included 200 counters, one full-size map, and the rules booklet. [Forum]
- Strategy & Tactics, Issue 323: Rangers: Lead The Way (new from Decision Games)
features the insert game, Rangers: Lead The Way, a solitaire simulation of the US Army Ranger assault on the Pointe du Hoc on D-Day. The game challenges the player to do better than the actual Ranger attack up the cliffs that historic morning and additionally allows the player to fight the battle using the planned, rather than the actual, forces and landing beaches. [Forum]
- A Cold & Bitter Battle (new from High Flying Dice Games)
The Battle of River Raisin, January 22, 1813. Following General Isaac Hull’s surrender of the US Army’s surrender at Detroit, General Harrison was ordered north from Ohio and Indiana to salvage the fast-deteriorating situation. Dividing his forces into two columns, Harrison ordered General Winchester to join up with a smaller force of Michigan volunteers at Frenchtown. Learning of the larger US force coming from the south, British General Proctor left Detroit in the midst of the winter weather to deal with the growing US threat at the River Raisin. One of the most dramatic engagements of the war was about to ensue. [Forum]
- A Dark & Dasdardly Fight (new from High Flying Dice Games)
The Battle of Tippecanoe, November 7, 1811. By early 1811, tensions in the western portion of Ohio and the remaining Northwest Territory were increasing almost daily. Conflict with Great Britain loomed, and the Native American inhabitants were also alarmed regarding increasing US settler encroachments on their lands in violation of the 1795 Treaty of Greenville. This is the fourth game in the fourth title in the Battles of the Old Northwest Series (A Dark and Bloody Battleground and St. Clair’s Folly were released earlier). [Forum]
- Brief Border Wars (new from Compass Games)
- Imperial Struggle (new from GMT Games)
Imperial Struggle is a game about what historians call the “Second Hundred Years’ War.” It tries to capture the whole span of this global 18th-century rivalry between Britain and France. From the beginning of the game, the stakes couldn’t be higher: in the War of the Spanish Succession, France fights to become the world’s first global superpower by uniting its peerless army with Spain’s colonial wealth… all the way to the end, where the British struggle to maintain control over the vast North American territories. [Forum]
- Dinosaur Table Battles (new from Hollandspiele)
