The Second World War: The War in Europe is a grand-strategic game utilizing armies or army groups, air forces, and fleets covering the entire conflict in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.

The Great War is a strategic level, area-movement system simulation of the First World War. On a map of Europe as it was in 1914, divided into a number of distinct geo-political areas, players maneuver Armies, Corps, Naval Squadrons, and other types of units, engage in mobilization, combat, and diplomacy, and attempt to meet their victory conditions.

America Falling enables two players to simulate the entire first year of a hypothesized near-future civil war brought on by whatever is your own favorite reason across all of the lower-48 states. One player commands the conservative Red forces while the other leads the liberal Blue forces.

Conflict can take place with conventional armaments as well as Weapons of Mass Destruction. Cyberwarfare is a constant. No two games will set up or play exactly alike.

Predicting the imminent collapse of the United States is a journalistic and academic commonplace as old as the republic itself. In fact, the first op-ed pieces on that theme began appearing in newspapers--both within the country itself and elsewhere around the world--before the ink on the first copy of the constitution was even properly dry back in 1787. The genre even had a name: "declinism."

Similarly, the reasons given for that supposedly inescapable fall have generally always--from the late-18th century to the present--been divided into three categories: ethno-racial conflict, class conflict, or some mixture of the two. America Falling enables two players to simulate the entire first year of a hypothesized near-future civil war--brought on by whatever is your own favorite reason--across all of the lower-48 states.

One player commands the conservative "Red" forces while the other leads the liberal "Blue" forces. The rules also allow for the possibility of local separatist movements erupting independently of those two main factions, including: The Republic of Texas, The Islamic State in America (ISIA), New Jerusalem, Aztlan, La Raza, Aryan Nation, New Afrika, Ecotopia, and The LGBTQ Rainbow Coalition.

Conflict can take place with conventional armaments as well as Weapons of Mass Destruction. Cyberwarfare is a constant.

No two games will set up or play exactly alike. The initial territorial division between the two sides is based on major cities (chosen randomly) rather than on whole states.

Game mechanics recreate the inescapable dilemmas of fratricidal struggle inherent at the start of every civil war. The keynote centers around the fact one military has suddenly become two. That means things previously taken for granted--chain of command, supply, political loyalties, etc.--have become uncertain. Nothing can be depended on; for instance, movement allowances among the same type of units may vary by as much as a factor of 12.

Play moves rapidly back and forth during each turn, one "action" at a time, in any order the players choose: enter reinforcements from off-map areas; regroup previously devastated units; move a friendly force; attempt to subvert an enemy force to defect to your side; launch a conventional, cyber or WMD attack; move your capital or attempt an airpower surge. In the end, victory hinges on the balance between control of key terrain and accumulated demoralization within the factions.

Players: one or two, best with two
Playing Time: four to six hours

Complexity: 6 out of 10
Solitaire Suitability: 8 out of 10
Time Scale: six two-month turns
Map Scale: 33 miles (54 km) per hex
Unit Scale: brigades, with abstracted air & naval power

In 1964-65 in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, prior to the first United States Army and Marine units arriving to bring the war into a new phase, Montagnard tribesmen of the Civilian Irregular Defense Groups - raised, trained, and advised by Special Forces A-teams - seek to prevent the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army from controlling the population and opening supply routes to the coast.

Focusing on the conflict in southern Afghanistan during 2008-10, players in Kandahar take on the role of regional commanders of the Afghan National Security Forces and the Taliban striving for the resources to aid them in succeeding in their objectives.

The American Civil War: both sides saw the other as "invaders," so the fight quickly escalated to one of extreme violence. The fight seesawed up and down the main street of Lone Jack, and when the rebels fired the Cave Hotel, a Yankee stronghold, their advantage appeared decisive. Foster now wheeled his only two artillery pieces forward, blasting the gray attack with double-shotted canister. The Confederates owned the field as well as the dead. They quickly gathered the remains of the fallen, already spoiling under the torrid sun. Friend and foe alike they buried beneath the arching shade of the lone jack oak.

Huzzah! simulates American Civil War combat at the tactical level. The system features encounters little known yet strategically fought. These are fights that, had they concluded differently, might well have transformed a campaign, a reputation, or both. So, while the battles featured were little more than a scrimmage when compared to, say, Gettysburg or Stones River, they were not insignificant, bearing weight well beyond what mere numbers suggest.

Masters Huzzah! Four Battles of the American Civil War Volume 1 features the following four battles: Belmont, Iuka, Newberm, and Stephenson's Depot.

In a fight that largely determined the fate of eastern Kentucky, two small armies clashed along the swollen tributary of Middle Creek. An officer of some promise, Humphrey Marshall, generaled the CSA, while a relative unknown, James A. Garfield, commanded the USA. At the end of the day, his supplies thin and and fearful of his army deserting, Marshall had no choice but to withdrawal. The battle unmade his reputation and he was barely heard from again. The Federals, conversely, celebrated a victory. Colonel Garfield earned a brigadiers star, and took the first step along the road that eventually led to the White House.

Millennium Wars is a series of strategic-level, two-player simulations of possible current and near-future conflicts.

This update for the original Millennium Wars: Ukraine contains two, new counter sheets and two, new missions that take a look at the new situation in Ukraine. Also included are units and rules to integrate with the Air-War module.

Contents:
* 140 Double-sided, full-color die-cut counters
* One 11" x 17" Full-Color Map
* One Twelve-Page Rulebook
* One eight-page Tables reference book
* One four-page Scenario book

The Soviet-imposed Communist government of Hungary has fallen. Newly inaugurated President Imre Nagy, swept along by the momentum of the popular revolution, has declared an end to the one-party system and threatened to pull out of the Warsaw Pact and declare neutrality. The Soviet government cannot allow this defection and launches "Operation Whirlwind" to restore order, culminating in a desperate battle in the streets of Budapest. Operation Whirlwind is a simulation of the situation in Budapest in November 1956.

Putin Strikes: The Coming War for Eastern Europe is a two-player game (solitaire suitable) in which one player (the Russian player) commands the Kremlin's forces, and the other (the Allied player) commands a polyglot international coalition opposed to him.

This isn’t a simulation of the "opaque (a.k.a. gray) war" techniques most recently used by the Russians in the Crimea and eastern Ukraine. Rather, it's designed to facilitate the examination of the strategic possibilities (along with their operational undertones) inherent in the larger situation. That is, it models the parameters of possibilities if Putin decides to go all out--taking advantage of the democratic West's increasing befuddlement by the jihad--to make one quick blitzkrieg-like strike to grab Russia's western "Near Abroad."

Each turn of play equals half a week of real time. Each hexagon on the map represents 20 miles (32.5 km) from side to opposite side. The system is based around the central idea that large First World armies (as well as those from elsewhere that have been trained and equipped to try to perform like First World armies) almost always begin major wars seemingly well prepared. Unfortunately for those in their front-line units, both the training and equipment usually only make them ready for the previous war, not the one they're about to fight. Beyond that, the initial period of such wars is characterized by only a partially abandoned peacetime psychology among the officers and enlisted. That is, no one as yet appreciates what it means operatively to be in an all-out war. All that comes together to give overall performance high-risk, volatile and fragile qualities: no one as yet really knows what's actually possible or wise to try to accomplish. Seemingly powerful units therefore easily become "disrupted"--especially as gauged in relation to similar units' performances later, after everyone's been thoroughly schooled in the art of war as it exists in the present. The system therefore doesn't play--when looked at on a step by step basis--in a way common to division-level simulations. The whole thing has a "Go" like quality to it. The commander will succeed best who--rather than reacting to or launching operations opportunistically one at a time--plans his campaign and then campaigns on that plan. Of course, we all know it's also true "no plan survives first contact with the enemy." So, even as you plan, you must do so while leaving within your overall scheme at least some capacity for opportunism. Strategy is not simple; it is complex.

The design explores the philosophic backlash that seems to be building throughout First World militaries in regard to the increasing organizational dominance of brigades over divisions. That is, even as the former have increasingly come to be the unit-of-choice at both operational and strategic levels, there's growing concern in the literature that brigades may be too large to employ the dexterity needed in counterinsurgency operations while also being too small to hold up for long in any force-on-force shootouts between First World opponents. Hence the contrasting characteristics generated by the differences in size between brigades and divisions are highlighted.

This boxed game includes:
* one full-size map
* one sheet of die-cut, mounted, full-color counters
* rules
* charts & tables

2 Players
120–240 Min
Age: 12+

The Second World War is a grand-strategic, historical simulation that covers the European, North African, and Pacific Theaters on three maps and four counter-sheets.