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.