NEW RELEASES
- World at War, Issue 78: Drive on Suez (new from Decision Games)
Drive on Suez is a solitaire game where the player takes command of the German-Italian Panzer Armee Afrika (PAA) during the 1942 campaign in Egypt as Rommel drives on the Suez Canal. The game system plays the Allied Middle East Command (MEC). While Suez is a solitaire game, multiple players can play as the PAA team, making decisions by consensus, or each managing operations along one of the Routes of Advance. Each turn can represent any amount of time from two days of intense combat to two weeks of refitting and reorganizing. The map scale is approximately 45 km to the inch. Ground combat units represent everything from battalions to divisions. Air units represent two to six groups. [Forum]
- Hot Sand, Cold Steel (new from High Flying Dice Games)
- Joseph Balkoski’s The Korean War (new from Compass Games)
The Korean War: June 1950 – May 1951, Designer Signature Edition, marks the return of a true wargaming classic by Joseph Balkoski first published in 1986, faithfully remastered and updated with this all-new, supersized edition. Hailed by many as one of the premiere games covering The Korean War, this two-player operational level simulation covers the first year of the Korean conflict, from June 1950 to May 1951. This edition of The Korean War features a super-sized map and counters and is another Classic Reborn! by Compass. [Forum]
- Atlantic Chase (new from GMT Games)
Atlantic Chase simulates the naval campaigns fought in the North Atlantic between the surface fleets of the Royal Navy and the Kriegsmarine between 1939 and 1942. It utilizes a system of trajectories to model the fog of war that bedeviled the commands during this period. Just as the pins and strings adorning Churchill’s wall represented the course of the ships underway, players arrange trajectory lines across the shared game board, each line representing a task force’s path of travel. Without resorting to dummy blocks, hidden movement, or a double-blind system requiring a referee or computer, players experience the uncertainty endemic to this period of naval warfare. [Forum]
- Bayonets & Tomahawks (new from GMT Games)
Bayonets & Tomahawks is a two-player grand strategic game depicting the French & Indian War, which raged from 1755 to 1760 and in which France's North American empire was conquered. Take command of either the French or British to fight all facets of the conflict: army maneuvering, diplomacy with indigenous nations, raids, battles, construction, naval operations, sieges, and more. With scenarios varying from a single year to the whole war, as well as rules for team play, Bayonets & Tomahawks is perfect for new and experienced wargamers alike. [Forum]
- Dominant Species: Marine (new from GMT Games)
- Commands & Colors: Samurai Battles (new from GMT Games)
Samurai Battles, from the game company Zvezda, premiered almost seven years ago. And although the game achieved some popularity for the most part the game flew under the radar of most gamers. So what makes Commands & Colors: Samurai Battles game great? In a word, More! GMT’s C&C: Samurai Battles game has more scenarios, more units to deploy, additional types of Japanese units, a jammed-packed battlefield with more units and more terrain. And there are still more expansion materials already waiting in the wings. [Forum]
OTHER NEWS
- Connections Online 2021 After Action Report
- Lock ‘n Load Publishing Online Library [video]
- GMT Games Company News
- Compass Games Live, Episode 55 [video]
- John Albert Tiller (1953-2021)
- Mentioned in Dispatches Podcast – Season 6 finale [podcast]
- Wargame Chat #8: Naval Wargames [video]
- Mentioned in Dispatches S6, E12 – Wargames with a couple of tankers [podcast]
