NEW RELEASES
- Captain’s Sea: The American Frigates, 1799-1815 (new from Legion Wargames)
Captain’s Sea is a low-to-moderate complexity game for two players who take the roles as captains of the original American frigates (Chesapeake, Congress, Constellation, Constitution, President, and United States) or their opponents from the British or French navies during the turn of the 19th Century. All of the classic duels fought by these ships are represented in detail. Unlike other age of sail games that focus on fleet actions, Captain’s Sea puts you on the deck of a single ship with the responsibility of leading her to victory. [Forum]
- Alfred the Great: The London Campaign (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Alfred the Great volume 5: The London Campaign, 885 AD. Alfred in this period commenced both the re-structuring of his Army and his Burh building program in earnest. Defense in depth was Alfred’s objective and this was to be proved highly effective. The Burh was used as a defensive/offensive structure, where possible utilizing existing ancient Roman & Briton forts or based upon existing fortified Saxon towns. [Forum]
- 2019 Annual: La Vendée, 1793 (new from LPS Inc)
Against the Odds Magazine has shipped another "Annual," the XL sized issues that contain a larger game and larger magazine than normal. "La Vendee, 1793" looks at the southern French provinces that rejected both the Revolution and Napoleon, and were never completely suppressed. (In 1815, Napoleon stationed 20 THOUSAND troops there!). The game looks at the first revolt, which was the largest and had the best chance of attracting foreign intervention. The "Whites" (anti-revolutionaries) want to seize and hold Republican forts and attract English help. The "Blues" must crush the rebellion and fight off partisans as well. Full-sized playing cards bring added surprises to this area-movement game by John Poniske, while Mark Mahaffy's beautiful graphics bring sparkle to map and components. [Forum]
- ATO Magazine, Issue 54: Monty’s D-Day (new from LPS Inc)
Monty’s D-Day was first published (with a very limited release) in 1985. The game was well received but hard to find. Now, four decades later, designer John Prados smoothed and polished the system, added rules for parachute and amphibious landings, Hobart's "funnies," plus new options for German alternative responses. The game will also link with ATO's "Bradley's D-Day," released in 2018, for a massive look at the first 48 hours of D-Day. [Forum]
- Strategy & Tactics Quarterly, Issue 16: China – The Next War (new from Decision Games)
Featuring a map poster! China – The Next War: China has been expanding its reach economically, politically, and militarily. The US remains its chief adversary on every level, but what strategies will be most effective in containing the burgeoning superpower? China’s long history gives it a wealth of political-military principles to direct its likely moves; the failure to understand them could doom its opposition. This is an examination of the potential for war, and of its disparate battlefields in the air, on land, at and under the sea, in space, and in the digital world. [Forum]
- Strategy & Tactics, Issue 332: Thirty Years War Battles (new from Decision Games)
Thirty Years War Battles is a grand tactical two player system for simulating battles in Europe during the first half of the 17th century. Each game in the system is based on one of the major battles of the 30 Years War. Each battle has its own map, special rules and counters representing the military formations which participated in the original action. [Forum]
- Paper Wars, Issue 99: Assault on Tobruk (new from Compass Games)
Assault on Tobruk, Rommel Triumphant, 20 June, 1942. From march to December of 1941 the forces of Rommel’s Afrika Korp surrounded the Allied held fortress port of Tobruk on the Libyan coast of North Africa, but were unable to subdue it. On the 20th of June in 1942 Rommel got another chance at a cut off Tobruk as the Allies retreated from the loss of the Gazala line battles. This time Tobruk fell, and it did so in a swirling action lasting less than a single day. [Forum]
- Kind of a Drag: Operation Durango, 1967 (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Kind of a Drag: Operation Durango/Frisco City, April 1967. General Westmoreland put forward in the Fall of 1966 a bold plan to invade the southern “pan handle” of North Vietnam as well as neighboring areas of Laos through which the Communist’s supply line (dubbed the “Ho Chi Minh Trail”) ran. The plan was to take and hold these areas to interdict the Communist’s support to the South, as well as compel the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) to do battle in the open against the US and ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) to take back their occupied homeland and supply lines. [Forum]
- War Diary Magazine, Issue 18 (new from Roy Matheson)
- THE WINTER SOLDIERS: The Battles of Princeton and Trenton, 1776-1777 by John Heim
- BROTHERHOOD & UNITY: A Review by John D. Burtt
- RETURN TO THE ROCK: Corregidor, 1945 by Michael Rinella
- A LEADERSHIP VARIANT FOR THE NAPOLEONIC 20 SERIES by George Kasnic
- ADVENTURES IN DIE-CUTTING by Andy Loakes
- ON GAMING: Alternate History and Game Design by Lewis Pulsipher
- TAKING CAVALRY FOR A RIDE: Optional Cavalry Employment in the Atlanta Campaign by Paul Comben
- THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN: Rule Clarifications
