Category: Preorder Alert

[Ending Soon!] Assault – Red Horizon 41 is the first volume in a planned series of tactical level wargames in which players lead historical units into battle during Operation Barbarossa (June through October 1941). A Clash of Titans – the German Wehrmacht and the Soviet Army fighting one another in a life and death struggle with infantry, artillery and armored units. Play it as a single scenario or with our unique campaign system. [watch designer intro video]

No Motherland Without: North Korea in Crisis and Cold War is a card-driven strategy game for one or two players simulating tensions between the DPRK and the West from 1953 to present day. As the Kim Regime (DPRK), one player will be seeking a nuclear deterrent to invasion, preventing uprising, improving infrastructure and purging elites to prevent a coup. As the West, players will exert pressure on the regime. [Forum]

a card-driven boardgame adventure of true pirate history for 1 to 4 players. From Blackbeard to Sir Henry Morgan, history's most fiendish freebooters come to life in this greed-filled game of strategy and adventure.

The Darin Leviloff classic solitaire game is getting a deluxification from Worthington Publishing. The game is an update of the VPG's Soveit Dawn game. The game allows gamers to play out the Russian Revolution 1918-1922. [Forum]

a massive 68" x 44" neoprene wargaming mat for the entire EastFront WWII series by Columbia Games. The ultimate game accessory to create a fully deluxe treatment of the classic game series. [Forum]

An easily accessible World War III war and strategy game with a paranormal twist. The Long Road depicts a Third World War sparked not by conflicting ideologies, but rather the back-stage maneuvering of paranormal entities with their own set of agendas. Agendas that are fleshed out in the game's 16 scenarios. [Forum]

Devil Boats: PT Boats in the Solomons is a solitaire, tactical-level wargame. You, as commander, will lead a squadron of 4 US Navy PT boats on nightly missions against Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands during the summer months of 1943. [Forum]

MacGowan & Lombardy's THE GREAT WAR fast-playing card game. Two players use modern technologies, combined arms tactics, and force multipliers to win World War One in an hour.

The Deadly Woods: The Battle of the Bulge by Ted Raicer. The game runs from December 16 1944 to January 16 1945 when the Allies reunited their divided front by recapturing the key town of Houffalize. This new Bulge game provides the same historical action and decisions of games with a much bigger footprint and playing time. And with a unique take on the chaos and friction of the battle that makes it a great choice for solo play. Even if you are bulged out, you'll want The Deadly Woods in your collection!​ [Forum]

Help Arrives! is a tactical strategy game, the fifth in the War Storm Series (WSS), covering the Spanish Civil War and the international units that participated in the conflict: CTV, international brigades, the Condor Legion and Soviet aid and much more. A realistic simulation hex & counter wargame with 800+ counters! [Forum]

A game simulating the Spanish conquest of the Americas from 1518-1548. In the half-century after Columbus, small bands of daring Spanish adventurers conquered Central and South America, destroying the huge armies of long-established native empires in the process. Some won great fortunes in gold, while many others only died an early death. These men were The Conquistadors. In this partly card-driven, partly procedural game —a brand-new design from Jon Southard — one to five players each control a group of conquistadors, trying to discover and loot the civilizations of the Americas and end up with the most gold and power. [Forum]

Compass Games has announced 20 new preorder game titles to coincide with their 2020 Holiday Catalog. We will post periodically some of these new preorder titles here over the course of the next 2-3 weeks to spread them out. [Forum]

The Advanced Squad Leader module Rising Sun 2020 reprint is now available for preorder. Rising Sun is a straight reprint of the 2013 release, but it will include the map and scenarios for Hell's Corner, which appeared in Operations Special Edition #3. This is a big module, combining the original ASL modules Code of Bushido, and Gung Ho!, and the entire Japanese, Chinese, and United States Marine Corps orders of battle. [Forum]

Airships: North Pole Quest places players in the year 1924, as various nations compete for prestige and scientific knowledge by seeing who can get an "Airship" to the North Pole first. Each player will represent a specific historical captain and manager of the Airship operation, working with engineers and designers, upgrading the crew, and selecting preliminary flights to raise financial capital. Specific airships have their historical capabilities that each player must use to his or her advantage, with beautiful 1/2000 scale models as pieces. And check out the map! It's a dual level system with a rotating band to handle weather patterns in different parts of the world...because weather is a key factor for success or disaster.

Hidden Strike American Revolution is a card driven game on the American Revolution. Designed for 1 to 5 players, plays in under 90 minutes. The game does have a true solitaire engine along with 5 modes of play. [Forum]

a quick-playing, grand strategy game with operational elements that could recreate all the Napoleonic Wars (1805-1815) in just one evening. Counters represent historical fleets and armies, being 18-25 ships or 30-50,000 men every strength point. Although not an event-driven board game in the classic sense, Event cards are used to recreate historical situations that could imply some modifications in the general rules of the game, or even change the fate of a game dramatically. [Forum]

This is the 6th Edition printing of Mark McLaughlin's War and Peace. This edition incorporates all known errata and updates from the previous printing. Mark McLaughlin's classic game on Napoleonic conquest is here, revitalized and enhanced with completely updated graphics and production, all new campaigns covering all of Napoleon's career, and a completely revamped rule book that incorporates all known errata, and the best official variants and optional rules along with a few new surprises. War and Peace will be given the deluxe treatment in this re-issue. [Forum]

Back in stock this November 2020. Stellar Horizons is a "build your own space program" game where you will lead one of seven Earth Factions to explore and develop our solar system. Designed by a real-life space engineer with a PhD in long-duration spaceflight from MIT, Stellar Horizons is intended to be a plausible representation of the first steps of humanity towards the stars between 2030 and 2169, with each turn representing a year of time. This is a straight reprint which includes errata sheet. [Forum]

Cradle of Civilization is a pair of games that play through the ancient civilizations of the Near East and the fall of the Persian Empire, SUMERIA TO PERSIA and ALEXANDER vs DARIUS. Both games are included in this premium package (mounted mapboard and "thick" counters) that allows two to six players determine the fate of the Ancient Near East. In one game civilizations rise, while in the second game, two players battle over whether the great Persian Empire will survive or perish. Both games use simple mechanics to make them quick-playing and to portray a period feel to the players. [Forum]

[Final Call to Preorder!] Rostov ‘41 is a Standard Combat Series (SCS) game covering the bold—some would say “foolhardy”—dash by Army Group South to take Rostov in the late fall of 1941. Amazingly, the attack succeeded, resulting, however, in the Germans being isolated at the end of a logistical shoestring. The regrouping Red Army, stung from a long series of defeats, saw this as the perfect opportunity to launch its first coordinated attack of the war, thus paving the way for the Moscow Counteroffensive just a few weeks later. [Forum]