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Grand Battles
See battles unfold in sweeping miniatures fashion, using an area-movement system free of annoying charts, tables and markers. Games you can finish in a couple of hours, yet still packed with historical detail.

  • Rome at War: Hannibal at Bay
    Rome's most dangerous enemy! Coming this summer, available now for pre-order. $19.99.
     
  • Napoleonic Battles: Austerlitz
    Napoleon’s French collide with the Russians and Austrians. $29.99.
     
  • Rome at War: Queen of the Celts
    The legions face off against the Celtic warriors and chariots led by Caractus and the legendary queen of the Iceni, Boudicca. $39.99.
     
  • Rome at War: Fading Legions
    In 11 battles that took place between 357 and 378 AD, Romans fight the Germans, Goths, Persians and rebel Romans. 88 double-sized "long" playing pieces, 154 oversized square ones, three maps. $44.99
     
  • War of the Empires: Battles of 1866
    Six battles between Austria and Prussia. 176 double-sized "long" playing pieces, 308 oversized square ones, seven maps. $149.99. Coming in 2008, available now for pre-order.
     
  • War of the States: Chickamauga and Chattanooga
    Two key battles from 1863, playable separately or together in a tense campaign game. 128 double-sized "long" playing pieces, 161 oversized square ones, two maps. $49.99. Temporarily out of stock.
     
  • War of the States: Gettysburg
    The three-day battle that finished the Confederacy. 100 double-sized "long" playing pieces, 168 oversized square ones, one map. Temporarily out of stock.


Ironclads
Naval battles of the Age of Steam.

  • Hearts of Iron
    Austrian, Italian, Prussian and Danish fleets clash in 1864 and 1866. Like Great War at Sea, this game features both operational and tactical levels of engagement. $74.99. Coming in 2008. Available now for pre-order.


Deluxe Boardgames
Lavished with great original artwork and decadently thick tiles in place of the usual playing pieces, these are our showpiece games.

  • Tears of the Dragon
    A fantasy game in which as two players contend to free the Dragon Princess. Sixty tiles, one game board. Two players, ages 10 and up, plays in sixty minutes. $19.99
     
  • Red Russia
    The deluxe production of Soldier Emperor with its decadently thick tiles and the free-wheeling play of Soldier Kings meets the austerity of War Communism. Two to five players. $39.99


Quick Play Games
Quick-playing games priced just right, with lots of play value and history in a small package.

  • Bitter Victory: Sicily 1943
    American and British forces storm the strategic island in June, 1943, as German and Italian armies offer fierce resistance. Same game system as Alsace 1945. $19.99.
     
  • They Shall Not Pass: The Battle of Verdun, 1916
    The French Army’s heroic stand against the German onslaught, known as one of history’s bloodiest battles. From the designer of Defiant Russia. $19.99.
     
  • Strange Defeat: The Fall of France, 1940
    In the spring of 1940, France had the world’s most powerful army. Six weeks later, the Germans marched through Paris and dictated peace terms. $19.99.
     
  • Alsace 1945
    Germany's last gasp in the West. Playable separately or together with America
    Triumphant.
    $19.99
     
  • Gazala: 1942
    Rommel's greatest desert victory. $19.99
     
  • Defiant Russia
    Germans invade the Soviet Union, in this game priced, packaged and designed for new players. 140 playing pieces, one map. $19.99
     
  • Red Vengeance
    The Destruction of Nazi Germany, 1945. Sequel to the popular Defiant Russia. The Red Army rebounds from near-defeat and smashes the Nazi war machine. $19.99


Third Reich
One of the world’s most popular board games, our edition of Third Reich has spawned a whole family of sequels and supplements. Fight the Second World War in its entirety, and never, ever let the bad guys win.

  • John Prados’ Third Reich
    The classic board game of the European Theater: easy to play and lovely to behold. 840 playing pieces, three hard-mounted game boards. $64.99
     
  • Great Pacific War
    Pacific sequel to Third Reich, covering Japan's aggression in Asia and the Pacific. 560 playing pieces, three full-sized maps. $64.99
     
  • Rumors of War
    A 64-page supplement featuring an extra map, playing pieces, strategy, variants and more, for both Third Reich and Great Pacific War. Coming in 2008, available now for pre-order. $24.99
     
  • Deluxe Third Reich Map
    The map to John Prados' Third Reich, printed on heavy paper at double the
    normal size. On this one, there's plenty of room to move your pieces around. $19.99
     
  • Player’s Guide
    A book supplement, with strategy articles, variant rules, new scenarios, and 100 new top-quality playing pieces. $24.99


Gunpowder Strategy
Games from the age of musket and cannon. Rich, painted maps of the area over which these wars were fought have been overlaid with a pattern of areas showing the resources to be gained there and the strength of defenses. Armies move along the routes between these areas. Better-led armies hold a distinct advantage, and card play is also a key.

  • Soldier Kings
    One of our most popular games ever, this game covers the entire Seven Years' War around the world: Europe, India, North America and more. Two to eight players. 165 oversized playing pieces, 140 small ones, two maps.
     


World War II Battles
We have three different game systems in print covering World War II land battles. Each gives a different perspective on the conflict, either through scale or system approach. These are our “real wargames,” hex-and-counter simulations of the type known and loved by old wargamers for the past half-century.

  • Bitter Victory: Sicily 1943
    American and British forces storm the strategic island in June, 1943, as German and Italian armies offer fierce resistance. Same game system as Alsace 1945. $19.99.
     
  • Red God of War
    The Soviet Operation Mars, 1942. The Red Army launches a massive offensive in front of Moscow, to be met by a determined German defense. 280 pieces, one map. $29.99.
     
  • Alsace 1945
    Germany's last gasp in the West. Playable separately or together with America
    Triumphant.
    $19.99.
     
  • Gazala 1942
    Rommel's greatest desert victory. $19.99.
     
  • Tiger of Malaya
    The 1941-42 Japanese advance in southern Malaya. 6 scenarios, 420 playing pieces, one map. $59.99.
     
  • Island of Death: The Invasion of Malta, 1942
    German and Italian paratroopers storm Britain’s Mediterranean fortress, in this game based on the actual plans of all participants for a battle that never happened. $29.99.
     
  • Alamein
    The key 1942 desert battle. Over a dozen scenarios, 2,100 playing pieces, four maps. $199.99.
     


Panzer Grenadier
Our most popular game series. Units represent infantry and tank platoons and artillery batteries. Players command these troops using an interactive but easy-to-learn game system. Games include dozens of different scenarios, or game situations, closely based on historical battles.

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  • March on Leningrad
    Ten scenarios on the German drive to the Cradle of the Revolution. $9.99.
     
  • Siege of Leningrad
    Ten scenarios on the battle for Leningrad. $9.99.
     
  • White Eagles
    The Polish battle against German and Soviet invaders in 1939. 76 pages, 40 scenarios. $24.99.
     
  • Cassino '44
    American, Polish, Indian, New Zealand and British troops face off against German paratroopers around the monastery of Monte Cassino, 1944. Thirty scenarios, one "historical" map, 660 playing pieces. $49.99
  • Elsenborn Ridge
    Elsenborn Ridge covers the fierce fighting on the "north shoulder" of the Battle of the Bulge between the American First Army and the German Sixth SS Panzer Army and Fifth Panzer Army. Four playing boards, 495 oversized playing pieces, 35 scenarios. $39.99. Coming in early 2008.
  • Alaska's War
    Ten scenarios based on battles that took place in the Aleutian Islands. Each scenario has its own card in a spiral-bound booklet, just like the popular North Wind and Edelweiss. $9.99
     
  • Arctic Front Deluxe Edition
    A heavily revised version of the series' first supplements, featuring Finland's three wars of 1939-1944. Forty scenarios, 176 die-cut-and-mounted playing pieces. Same format as Fronte Russo and Sinister Forces. $24.99
     
  • North Wind
    The last German offensive of the Battle of the Bulge. $9.99
     
  • Iron Curtain
    U.S. and Soviet forces face off after World War II. $19.99
     
  • Fronte Russo
    Battles of the Italian Expeditionary Corps on the Eastern Front, 1941-1942. A 64-page book with 41 scenarios and 165 die-cut-and-mounted playing pieces. $24.99.
     
  • South Africa's War
    South Africa's divisions saw some of the war’s fiercest actions; now add them to your Desert Rats and Afrika Korps games. This Panzer Grenadier supplement includes 88 game pieces and 20 new scenarios. $17.99
     
  • Blue Division
    Spanish fascists on the Eastern Front. Includes 20 scenarios and 165 counters. $17.99.
     
  • Red Warriors
    The Soviet Union's elite fight back! Includes 20 scenarios and 165 counters. $17.99.
     
  • Airborne Introductory Edition
    American paratroopers land in Normandy! Includes 20 scenarios perfect for the newcomer to Panzer Grenadier. $19.99.
     
  • Infantry Attacks: Empires End
    The Imperial armies of Russia, Austria-Hungary and Germany clash in the opening months of the Great War, when manuever was still thought the key to victory. $99.99. Coming in 2008.
     
  • Sinister Forces
    A 64-page book supplement covering the Waffen SS and NKVD on the Eastern Front, with 165 die-cut and mounted playing pieces. $24.99
     
  • Beyond Normandy
    British troops battle the fearsome Waffen SS behind the beachheads, on "historical terrain" maps. $64.99
     
  • Road to Berlin
    German and Hungarian forces try to stem the tide of Soviet vengeance in 75 scenarios from 1944 and 1945 on the Eastern Front. $74.99
     
  • Panzer Grenadier: Eastern Front Deluxe
    The game that revived historical wargaming returns in an all-new and expanded edition. German and Romanian forces invade the Soviet Union in 1941, with 112 (yes, one hundred and twelve) scenarios based on the furious tank battles that followed. $74.99
     
  • Jungle Fighting
    Forty-two scenarios introducing the U.S. Army's campaign on Guadalcanal! 64 pages. $19.99
     
  • Afrika Korps
    The desert battles of 1940-41. Features Australian, British, German and Italian troops. 50 scenarios, 737 oversized playing pieces, three maps. $64.99
     
  • Battle of the Bulge
    American troops blunt the last Nazi gamble. Lots of tanks and paratroopers on both sides. 51 scenarios, 495 oversized playing pieces, four maps. $49.99
     
  • Desert Rats
    North Africa, 1941-1942, including Italian East Africa. Features Indian, New Zealand, British, German, Italian and Italian Colonial troops. 50 scenarios, 825 oversized playing pieces, two maps. $64.99
     
  • Semper Fi! Guadalcanal
    U.S. Marines (including Marine Paratroopers and Raiders) battle the Japanese on the crucial island, 1942. 24 scenarios, 495 oversized playing pieces, three maps. $49.99
     
  • Edelweiss: Expanded Edition
    A heavily revised version of one of the series' earliest supplements, featuring the mountain troops of the German Army and Waffen SS. Thirty-two scenarios, 74 die-cut-and-mounted playing pieces. Same format as South Africa’s War and Blue Division. $19.99


Great War at Sea
The age of the dreadnoughts, 1898-1930. Players move their fleets on the operational map, and when contact is made, resolve battles on the tactical map. A wealth of historical information matched with quick-playing rules.

  • Sea of Troubles
    A 76-page book supplement for the Great War at Sea series based on the war plans of Britain and the U.S. in case they ever came to blows. $24.99.
  • Zeppelins
    Add airships to your Great War at Sea game. $24.99.
     
  • Cone of Fire
    South American naval conflict, as the expensive fleets purchased but never really used get into action. $79.99.
     
  • U.S. Navy Plan Gold
    American plans to fight the French in the 1920s. Printed in limited quantities. $59.99
     
  • Jutland
    History's best-known naval battle! Packed with scenarios, Great War at Sea: Jutland includes the operations in the North Sea and the bitterly-fought naval war in the Baltic Sea. $64.99
     
  • Cruiser Warfare
    The world-wide hunt for German commerce raiders in 1914. 140 "large" playing pieces, 140 small ones, two maps. $49.99
     
  • Mediterranean
    Fleets of 11 nations clash in 70 scenarios from war in the Middle Sea, 1911-1923. 210 "large" playing pieces, 280 small ones, three maps. $59.99
     
  • Dreadnoughts
    A book supplement, with 26 new scenarios, four historical articles, 70 "large" playing pieces, 20 small ones, and a set of advanced tactical rules for the dreadnought era. $24.99


Second World War at Sea
Much like Great War at Sea, covering World War 2 naval campaigns. Players move fleets and air flights on the operational map, resolving battles on the tactical map.

  • Black Sea Fleets
    The actions of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, 1941-1944, plus the ships and aircraft that could have been in this scenario book based on both actual operations and plans for war in the Black Sea. Includes Turkish, Romanian and Bulgarian fleets as well. Seventy "long" ship pieces, 140 standard sized pieces, 64 pages. $24.99.
     
  • Arctic Convoy
    Players have clamored for it! The fierce battles in Arctic waters as British, American and Soviet escorts try to force vital convoys through to Murmansk past the German aircraft, submarines and surface ships determined to stop them. 210 "long" ship counters, 420 standard sized player pieces, two maps and as always a shipload of scenarios. $49.99. Due early 2008.
     
  • East of Suez
    A book supplement covering the British Pacific Fleet in the Indian and Pacific Oceans in the last years of World War II plus the Soviet Pacific Fleet. 210 mounted and die cut counters, $24.99.
     
  • Cone of Fire
    South American naval conflict, as the expensive fleets purchased but never really used get into action. Includes the hunt for the German raider Admiral Graf Spee. $79.99.
     
  • Bismarck
    Commerce raiding in the North Atlantic. $49.99
     
  • Strike South
    Japan's bid to dominate South Asia, 1941-1942. $49.99
     
  • Bomb Alley
    Britain and Italy struggle for the Mediterranean, 1940-42. 50 scenarios, 280 "large" playing pieces, 560 small ones, three maps, $64.99
     
  • Eastern Fleet
    Japan strikes the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean. 11 scenarios, 70 "large" playing pieces, 140 small ones, two maps. $44.99
     
  • Leyte Gulf
    The ultimate naval game: the Battles of Leyte Gulf and the Philippine Sea. Also includes variant orders of battle. Over 500 "long" ship counters and over 1,100 standard-sized game pieces, plus two maps. $199.99
     
  • Midway
    The climactic battle of the Pacific War, 1942. 11 scenarios, 210 "large" playing pieces, 280 small ones, two maps. $54.99


Roleplaying Games
Award-winning supplements for the world’s most popular role-playing system. Add a dose of sharp reality to your game world.

  • Celtic Age
    Everything you need to build a Celtic campaign world, or to add Celtic trappings to an existing one.
     
  • Little People
    Fairies the way the Celts saw them: unknowable, magical beings that could grant wondrous favors or inflict horrid pain, all for their own reasons. Covers all the famous fairies and categories of them, plus includes rules to construct your own Celtic fairy.