The Decision Games website is continuing to have updates to complete it. The Vassal modules section is complete and will continue to have modules added as the corresponding game is released.
The E-rules section is currently being reviewed and updated weekly with files. Once the E-rules section is complete, we will be moving on to update the Strategy & Tactics Press website. In the mean time you may be redirected to the shop when visiting the individual magazine websites.
Operation Typhoon
Operation Typhoon is an operational level recreation of this titanic struggle. Players will not be concerned with the intricacies of low-level combat, nor the grand strategic questions of the respective High Commands. Rather, players will be faced with the problems of a corps and army level assault: distributing meager armored formations to the attack, choosing a strong defensive line, allocating supply, and assigning air units to ground support and interdiction missions. The victor will be the player with the greater ingenuity and operational sense. Pre-Order today.
Red Dragon, Green Crescent (Deluxe Edition)
Red Dragon Green Crescent is a strategic-level simulation of hypothetical future conflicts in and around East Asia, the Indian Ocean, and the Middle East. The time frame is the not-too-distant future, roughly between 2024 and 2035. This deluxe edition accounts for developments in the strategic situation since the original games were published. The People’s Republic of China has in recent years established bases (or at least basing rights) throughout the Indian Ocean. Russia is engaged in a war in Ukraine. The 2021 Taliban victory in Afghanistan shifted the perception of the power of the United States and its Coalition partners. All around, the powers are bringing online advanced weapons systems and new tactics. This is modeled with two general time frames for the scenarios, one set in the 2020s and the other in the 2030s. Pre-Order today.
Battles for the Ardennes (Deluxe Edition)
Before World War II, French War Minister Marshal Petain called the Ardennes Forest of France, Belgium and Luxembourg “a sector that is not dangerous. It is impenetrable.” Yet battle has raged over this area for two millennia, since the time of Caesar’s legions fighting the German tribes, and more recently, during the opening campaign of the First World War. In 1940, the German Army overran the unsuspecting French in the Ardennes, leading to the fall of France a few weeks later. Similarly in 1944, the Germans launched a surprise attack, popularly known as the Battle of the Bulge, on American forces in the Ardennes. This failed German offensive would hasten the defeat of the German Wehrmacht in the West. Pre-Order today.
Battles in the East #3: Battle for Pomerania and Drive to the Sea
Battles in the East (BITE) is a series simulating World War II Eastern Front battles. The system rules are an evolution of the SPI classics Panzergruppe Guderian, Army Group South, and Cobra. Unit integrity bonuses include Soviet Corps and vary to show the increasing Soviet cohesion and decreasing German cohesion as the war progresses. Pre-Order today.
Drive to the Sea
West Prussia, January 1945: Stalin’s agenda focused on the conquest of Prussia, the first German territory reached by the advancing Red Army. The German Army, ahead of a total collapse, prepared a ‘defense in depth’ while deploying many Prussian recruited units to defend the region. The Soviet plan was simple—drive from the east while also cutting Prussia from the rest of Germany. The Soviets earmarked Rokossovsky’s 2 Belorussian Front for the task with the veteran 5th Guard Tank Army selected for the drive to the sea. The game runs from 13th January 1945–1st February 1945, a total of 10 game turns.
Battle for Pomerania
Pomerania, February 1945: By February 1945 the German Army faced a desperate situation. The Soviets under Zhukov regrouped at the Oder River preparing to press forward to capture Berlin. However, the northern flank of his Belorussian Front was thinly held and the besieged German garrison in the town of Arnswalde continued to hold. Himmler, with his personal credibility in terminal decline, opted to utilize vital German reserves and SS units to launch a relief effort of limited forces to drive south, relieve Arnswalde, and severely disrupt the Soviet plans. Once the Stavka, the Soviet General Headquarters, recognized the danger, clearing Pomerania became their objective for February and early March 1945. Himmler soon found himself out of his depth in a bloody campaign in Northeast Germany. The game runs from 15th February 1945–5th March 1945, a total of 10 game turns.
Projected Release Schedule for Magazine Games in the next 12 months
Magazines in the past 12 months:
Distributors and Retailers Shipping
Pledge/Pre-Order Shipping
Battles in the East #3: Drive to the Sea & Battle for Pomerania
Operation Typhoon
Battle for the Ardennes Deluxe Edition
Red Dragon Deluxe Edition
Iwo folio (2nd printing)
Kircholm mini (new Pike & Shot Quick Play)
Merrill’s Marauders (2nd printing)
Rogers Rangers (2nd printing)
Warehouse/Collation
In-country Transit
Ocean Transit
Printing
Campaigns in Europe Expansion Kit
Battles in the East #4: Mius River & Vitebsk
Blue & Gray Deluxe Edition
Carrier Battlegroup Deluxe Edition
Proofing
Play Testing
Over the Rhine: Operation Market-Garden (GOSS)
Napoleon at War Quad Deluxe Edition (SPI)
Seven Days to the Rhine
Development (scheduled for 2026 release)
1812 Deluxe Edition (SPI)
Sixth Fleet Deluxe Edition (MW #42)
Year of the Rat Deluxe Edition (SPI)
Fall of Rome Deluxe Edition (S&T #35)
Siege of Constantinople (S&T #66)
Last Raiders (WWI German commerce raiders – new design)
30 Years War Quad Deluxe Edition (SPI)
American Civil War Deluxe Edition (S&T #310)
CA Deluxe Edition (S&T #38)
Hardest Days (World at War #19)
Battles in the East 5 (1942: Kalach and Mars West – new design)
Thank you to all the volunteers who have tested our games. Contact Doc if interested.
We’ve just added another group of volunteers to our play test pool, but there is always room for more! In general, we need at least four play test sessions over an eight-week period to play the game and provide a summary of questions, clarifications, and play balance comments. Send an e-mail Doc with your contact info and preferences.
Decision Games offers vassal modules of its magazine and box games as well as some older SPI titles. These modules are brought to you by community support so functionality may vary. If you have an interest in helping to maintain or create vassal modules, please email our offices.
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STQ #28 featuring First Indochina War has shipped to subscribers and the newsstand.
STQ #29 featuring Ottoman Empire will ship in February 2025.
STQ #30 featuring Mediterranean Campaign will ship in May 2025.
STQ #31 featuring Rosecrans versus Bragg will ship in August 2025.
S&T #350 featuring Reves de Glorie has shipped to subscribers and the newsstand.
S&T #351 featuring Bosnia 1992-1994 will ship in late January 2025.
S&T #352 featuring French & Indian War will ship in late March 2025.
S&T #353 featuring Ukraine 2014 Battles will ship in late May 2025.
S&T #354 featuring Eagles of Rome will ship in late July 2025.
S&T #355 featuring Eleven Days War will ship in late September 2025.
S&T #356 featuring Gates of Vienna 1683 will ship in late December 2025.
WaW #99 featuring Italy Campaign (CIE 3) has shipped to subscribers and the newsstand.
WaW #100 featuring D-Day to the Rhine (CIE 4) will ship in December.
WaW #101 featuring Solomons will ship in February 2025.
WaW #102 featuring Invasion Australia will ship in April 2025.
WaW #103 featuring Battle for Finland will ship in June 2025.
WaW #104 featuring Path to Victory will ship in October 2025.
WaW #105 featuring Operation Ironclad: Madagascar will ship in December 2025.