NEW RELEASES
- 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]
- Lances and Steel (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Lances and Steel is a war game simulation of the battle fought near the town of Mokra during the 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. The area was held by the Polish 7th Infantry Division and the Wolynska Cavalry Brigade supported by the Smialy armored train and the 21st Tank battalion. The German attack here sought to separate the Polish Lodz and Krakow Armies and effect a breakthrough to the Polish rear areas. The first major battle of WWII was fought here. Can you do as well or better than your historical counterparts? [Forum]
- Harpoon V: Modern Tactical Naval Combat (new from The Admiral’s Trilogy)
Harpoon V is an all-new edition, tactical miniatures game that covers all aspects of naval warfare from 1955 to the present day: surface, sub-surface, and air. Extensively researched and tested, the rules allow play so realistic the game has been used for training by the U.S. and other navies. [Forum]
- World at War, Issue 73: Spring Awakening (new from Decision Games)
Spring Awakening is a two player wargame of Operation Fruhlingserwachen, the final major German offensive of World War II. The German plan was to launch a two-pronged attack to secure a defensive zone for the Lake Balaton oilfields in northern Hungary. The offensive failed in the face of Soviet resistance, and the ensuing Red Army offensive swept into Vienna. While historically, the situation was dismal for the Third Reich, the objective is for players to do better than their historical counterparts. [Forum]
