PREORDER ALERTS
- Soviet Dawn Deluxe (Worthington Games @ Kickstarter)
- EastFront Series Wargaming Map and Bundle (Columbia Games @ Kickstarter)
- The Long Road (Flying Pig Games @ Kickstarter)
An easily accessible World War III war and strategy game with a paranormal twist. The Long Road depicts a Third World War sparked not by conflicting ideologies, but rather the back-stage maneuvering of paranormal entities with their own set of agendas. Agendas that are fleshed out in the game's 16 scenarios. [Forum]
- Devil Boats: PT Boats in the Solomons (Compass Games @ Kickstarter)
- MacGowan & Lombardy’s The Great War card game on Kickstarter
- The Deadly Woods (Revolution Games Preorder)
The Deadly Woods: The Battle of the Bulge by Ted Raicer. The game runs from December 16 1944 to January 16 1945 when the Allies reunited their divided front by recapturing the key town of Houffalize. This new Bulge game provides the same historical action and decisions of games with a much bigger footprint and playing time. And with a unique take on the chaos and friction of the battle that makes it a great choice for solo play. Even if you are bulged out, you'll want The Deadly Woods in your collection! [Forum]
- Help Arrives! Spanish Civil War (Draco Ideas @ Kickstarter)
Help Arrives! is a tactical strategy game, the fifth in the War Storm Series (WSS), covering the Spanish Civil War and the international units that participated in the conflict: CTV, international brigades, the Condor Legion and Soviet aid and much more. A realistic simulation hex & counter wargame with 800+ counters! [Forum]
- The Conquistadors (Compass Games @ Kickstarter)
A game simulating the Spanish conquest of the Americas from 1518-1548. In the half-century after Columbus, small bands of daring Spanish adventurers conquered Central and South America, destroying the huge armies of long-established native empires in the process. Some won great fortunes in gold, while many others only died an early death. These men were The Conquistadors. In this partly card-driven, partly procedural game —a brand-new design from Jon Southard — one to five players each control a group of conquistadors, trying to discover and loot the civilizations of the Americas and end up with the most gold and power. [Forum]
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- World at War, Issue 75: Centrifugal Offensive (new from Decision Games)
Centrifugal Offensive: The Japanese Campaign in the Pacific, 1941-42 is a solitaire, strategic level wargame of the initial Imperial Japanese campaigns in the Pacific War, 1941 to 1942. The player commands the Japanese forces, with the Allies are controlled by the game system. The player's objective is to accomplish campaign objectives ahead of the original schedule, thereby forestalling the inevitable US-led Allied offensive. [Forum]
- Alea Magazine, Issue 35 (new from Alea Ludopress)
- Old School Tactical Vol II West Front 1944-45 (new from Flying Pig Games)
The popular Old School Tactical series returns for its second edition with Old School Tactical Volume II: West Front 1944-45. This iteration of the quick to learn, challenging to master, tactical game introduces the Americans to the series. Fight across the European countryside with M-10 tank destroyers and Sherman Easy Eight Tiger tank destroyers. Pile your powerful rifle squads into venerable M5 halftracks or nail an onrushing armored car with a bazooka. Find your enemy, fix them, flank them, and finish them. If it works on the battlefield it works in Old School Tactical, and it works with minimal fuss and muss. [Forum]
- Operation Jubilee: The Raid on Dieppe (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Operation Jubilee: The Raid on Dieppe, August 1942. New German radar and anti-aircraft and shore batteries installed along the north coast of France were making life more dangerous for Allied shipping as well as increasingly dangerous for their bombers crossing the channel to conduct bombing raids in occupied France, Belgium as well as Nazi Germany. In May it was decided to conduct a raid on the channel port of Dieppe. [Forum]
- Nightmare Island (new from High Flying Dice Games)
Nightmare Island: The Battle for Biak Island, May-August, 1944. By early 1944 General MacArthur feared the upcoming US Navy offensive to take the Marianas to the north could lead to a strategic switch in offensive operations that would jeopardize his ambition and promise to retake the Philippines (as well as taking away the spotlight his operations commanded to this point in the war). In early 1944 MacArthur proposed the capture of BiakIsland to not only end the New Guinea campaign, but also to provide a forward base of operations for his planned return to the Philippine archipelago. [Forum]
- An Attrition of Souls (new from Compass Games)
An Attrition of Souls is a light, fast-paced wargame at the strategic scale covering the Great War, designed with a high degree of replayability—no two games play alike. This deluxe game with mounted mapboard and large game counters features a unique tile-placement system to simulate the First World War. Game strategy is key due to the unforgiving combat system capturing the horrific attrition of this conflict; the dice offer no bloodless victories or reprieve for either side. [Forum]
- Aurelian, Restorer of the World (new from Hollandspiele)
Aurelian, Restorer of the World is a solitaire game from Tom Russell, the designer of Agricola, Master of Britain and Charlemagne, Master of Europe. This game is shorter and faster than the two previous games, lasting a maximum of six turns. It's also more difficult. Beyond marching around the map, quelling revolts, and smacking down usurpers, you must manage monies, maintain a strong defensive line along the Danube, make war against Germanic tribes, build up city defenses, and spread the cult of Sol Invictus. [Forum]
- From Salerno to Rome: World War II (new from Dissimula Edizioni)
- World at War, Issue 74: Munich War 1938 (new from Decision Games)
Munich War 1938 is a two player operational level simulation of a hypothetical World War II in Europe that began in the fall of 1938. The assumption is that the British and French governments did not back down at the September 1938 Munich conference when Hitler demanded the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia and instead went to war with the Third Reich. The ensuing conflict finds the powers partially prepared for war. [Forum]
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