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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.
Try out the game for
free!
- 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.
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