NEW RELEASES
- White Eagle Defiant (new from Hollandspiele)
This is the topic of the second game from designers Ryan Heilman and Dave Shaw. Their first, Brave Little Belgium, delighted gamers with its streamlined approach to chit-pull and point-to-point wargaming, securing it a Charles S. Roberts nomination. Since its publication, we've often heard from new wargamers for whom it served as their introduction to the hobby. If Brave Little Belgium was your first wargame, White Eagle Defiant could be your second. [Forum]
- No Pasaran! (new from High Flying Dice Games)
No Pasaran! The Battle of La Coruña Road, January 3-16, 1937. Following the successful stand by the Republicans at Madrid Nationalist Generalissimo, Francisco Franco ordered an attack northwest of the city to cut off its water supply from the south. Other Nationalist forces attacked from the north and east to surround the capital and lay siege. In mid-December 1936 the Nationalists launched their offensives, but these soon bogged down at the end of the month due to inclement weather and a lack of fuel. During the respite both sides rushed reinforcements to the front along the road from Madrid to La Coruña. [Forum]
- Strategy & Tactics Quarterly #11: Thirty Years’ War (new from Decision Games)
- Commands & Colors Tricorne: Jacobite Rising (new from Compass Games)
Jacobite Rising is the first standalone game for Commands & Colors Tricorne (ownership of Tricorne is NOT required) and features 13 battle scenarios by Richard Borg. Mounted game board, terrain tiles, blocks, command and combat cards, stickers and large, molded dice are all included. You will find many new and interesting play concepts which brings new experiences and challenges covering the world of the Highland Clans in the time of the Jacobite Risings. [Forum]
- Last Stand: The Battle for Moscow, 1941-42 (new from Multi-Man Publishing)
Masahiro Yamazaki, the designer of the MMP games Red Star Rising and Stalingrad Pocket, has designed his greatest game on this great conflict- Last Stand; The Battle for Moscow 1941-1942. Using all the tricks in his designer’s bag, Mas has made this titanic struggle playable but without sacrificing a great sense of history. Offering 3 scenarios to show different aspects of the campaign, and a unique way of showing the plight of the Soviet morale as a nation faces possible complete military defeat, all in a manageable size, Last Stand is a game that has no competitor. [Forum]
- Strategy & Tactics, Issue 324: Fight The Fall (new from Decision Games)
featuring two insert games: Fight The Fall: Faesulae A.D. 405 & Tricamerum A.D. 533 is a two-player wargame system that simulates the battles that occurred during the era AD 376 to 560, roughly the time from when the Goths crossed the Danube to the Byzantine reconquest of the west. The game system emphasizes command control, leaders and unique tactics. Players pick command markers to generate actions, modeling the chaos of the battlefield. The objective is to gain victory in battle, usually by destroying enemy units and morale. [Forum]
- Modern War, Issue 49: Objective Munich (new from Decision Games)
This game is the second volume of the 7DR (Seven Days to the Rhine) Series. Objective Munich is a two-player alternative history wargame intended to investigate the operational parameters that would have been in place during the first four days of fighting in that border area of West Germany had the Soviet Union decided to try to attack sometime in the early 1980s. It was during that timeframe the Warsaw Pact achieved a possible decisive "correlation of forces" between their militaries and those of the West. [Forum]
- Stilicho: Last of the Romans (new from Hollandspiele)
the long-anticipated follow-up to designer Robert DeLeskie's popular and challenging solitaire game WARS OF MARCUS AURELIUS. The brain-boiling card angst and nail-biting combats that made that game so compelling are back, along with some new wrinkles that make for a more challenging and nuanced decision space. [Forum]
- Red Poppies Campaigns Vol. 3: Assault Artillery! (new from Compass Games)
Assault Artillery! is the third volume in the popular Red Poppies Campaigns game series. This is a standalone game; ownership of previous volumes in the series is not required. This game recounts the Battle of La Malmaison, 23-27 October 1917, in which the French employed their Artillerie Spéciale (tank force) and creeping barrage to capture Pinon, Vaudesson, and the coveted Chemin des Dames ridge. [Forum]
