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battalion level game of the Battle of the Bulge. The game system incorporates a number of concepts from two the highly playable games on the same subject: Bitter Woods by The Avalon Hill Game Company and the iconic battalion level Wacht am Rhein from SPI in 1977. In addition, the command and control concepts devised for the TAHGC version of The Siege of Jerusalem were utilized. [Forum]

Saint-Omer to Saint Crispin is a follow-up (or, perhaps more accurately, a prequel) to Mike Nagel's Charles Roberts award nominated game Sun of York, that covers tactical battles between the English, French, and their respective allies during the Hundred Years War. The game uses a card-based system to activate units for movement, combat, and rally during each of the eighteen(!) individual scenarios. [Forum]

78 page magazine issue that features the insert game, Hermann Luttmann's Steamroller. A highly playable game and operational look at 1914's pivotal Tannenberg campaign. Command either the German 8th Army or the Russian 1st and 2nd Armies in the battle that decided the early course of the Great War on the Eastern Front. The game is the latest iteration of the system used in Hermann's earlier Race to the Sea 1914, (as well as Dead Reckoning) with corps, divisions, and brigades traipsing around the wilderlands of East Prussia and northeastern Poland. [Forum]

Now on Kickstarter. Holdfast Tunisia is a block war game that allows players to refight the World War II desert campaign that saw the American army enter the war in Europe. The German, Italian, American, and British army are all present as well as national sub-units within each. [Forum]

An expansion book for Frontier Battles, with six new scenarios and 64 new pieces. The Royal Bavarian Army follows through with Ludwig von der Tann's plan to fight the Prussians in Bohemia. [Forum]

This is Jack Radey's update of his original monster game of 1978. Two Soviet Fronts surround a German Army in the Ukraine and a ferocious battle takes place as the Germans try to break the encirclement and the Soviets seek to crush both the rescuers and the beleaguered troops in the Korsun Pocket. This monster game features 12 counter sheets of 200 die-cut backprinted counters and four game maps. [Forum]

Can war be avoided? Can the people of yet another British colony find a peaceful solution to their quest for true democracy, or will the Empire prevail? Find out in this gripping new card-driven game that depicts the mobilization & uprisings of Lower Canada in 1834-1837 using key historical events of the 1830's to drive a rich and colorful play narrative. [Forum]

Award-Winning Feudal Japan Card Game Launched on Kickstarter! If you have an interest in the Sengoku period, consider backing this new card game. ZiPANG Portable (2-6 players, 10-20 min) is a fast-paced "pick one, play one" card game beautifully designed by Japanese artists with ukiyo-e style cards.

Touted as the largest wargame ever produced, World in Flames can be played from 2 to 6 players (and can easily be played solitaire too). There are 20 campaigns you can play, from the hour long Victory in The West campaign to the 150 hour Global War mega campaign. World in Flames is the ultimate gaming challenge. [Forum]

The Battles from the popular Age of Reason series returns to the War of the Austrian Succession covering two separate battles -- Mollwitz 1741 and Chotusitz 1742 [Forum]

a simulation game covering the confrontation of two powers of the era in a political and military context that anticipated the long period of the Thirty Years War. The war was very costly in terms of human lives and resources for both sides and ended with poor results, a minor Venetian victory, but at least the threat of the Uskok pirates vanished. [Forum]

Pavlov’s House was a fortified apartment building used as a strongpoint by the Soviet 62nd Army during the pivotal Battle of Stalingrad in WW2. Soviet defenders held out for almost two months from a constant German assault. The building’s name was drawn from Yakov Pavlov, a sergeant who led the initial storm group assault that resulted in the capture of the building from the Germans. The story of Pavlov’s House was a key piece of Soviet propaganda and was used as a symbol of the incredible resistance of Soviet forces during the Battle of Stalingrad. [Forum]

The Great Plains in the latter half of the 19th century was a cultural battleground. The Native way of life was under siege by an avalanche of invaders seeking land and progress. Plains Indian Wars reduces this monumental and catastrophic series of conflicts to its basic elements: A settler surge via long snaking wagon trains, the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, east and west, and the cavalry sent to protect them all. At the same time, Plains Indian Wars seeks to offer the Native-American player the opportunity to unite earlier, hold their own and perhaps even prevent European-American success.

Michael Gustavsson, co-designer of FAB: Golan’73 is back with volume IV in the Fast Action Battle series. In this game, as the Allied player, you control the XXX and XIII corps, Tobruk Garrison and the Strategic Reserve force of the 8th Army. As the Axis player, you control the DAK (Deutsches Afrika Korps), the Italian XXI corps and the Corpo d’ Armata di Manovra (CAM) of the Panzergruppe Afrika commanded by the famous Erwin Rommel. [Forum]

Red Star/White Eagle: The Russo-Polish War, 1920, Designer Signature Edition, marks the return of a true wargaming classic by David Williams, faithfully remastered and updated with this all-new edition. Celebrated by many as one of the finest and often sought-after game titles ever produced by Game Designers’ Workshop (GDW, 1979) on a fascinating, almost forgotten conflict that would largely determine the course of European history for the next twenty years or more. [Forum]

Renegade, from Ricky (Box of Delights) Royal, is a solo/co-operative cyberpunk deck-building game for 1 to 5 players. Hack the four SMC (Super Massive Computer) networks, each with its own increasingly complex AI. You must puzzle through and survive their Countermeasures before the network is overrun by the SMC's Spark and Guardian defenses. [Forum]

a complete Panzer Grenadier game based on the epic battles waged by the British Expeditionary Force against the Germans in the spring and early summer of 1940. There are 47 scenarios based on these battles, organized into “battle games” that allow you to play the scenarios in sequence toward your army’s operational goals. Scenario design is by Philippe Léonard, who also designed Panzer Grenadier: 1940 The Fall of France. [Forum]

Game design by Doug Bryant is now available now on Kickstarter. Watch the movie and play the game. Dunkirk is a block game that is chit-driven and card enhanced. Refight the decisive battle of France 1940 in two hours. [Forum]

WW2 skirmish with a new range of dedicated 36mm (1:48) miniatures realized as 3d models. The game use a number of innovative mechanics to deliver fast paced action and great historical realism without ever consulting tables or any hard calculation at all. It is also different in using a very low figure count (3-4 models per side is sufficient to play) and a small gaming area which makes it ideal when you only have a lunch time or a short period to play.

a sourcebook for the Second World War at Sea series describing the ships which were part of Germany's Plan Z as well as those that Britain’s Royal Navy would likely have built in response. And it has additional pieces of its own: "long" ship pieces for those that appear in other Second World War at Sea games on smaller, square pieces. [Forum]