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#23 Guerra a Muerte
Available Jul. 2008
Americans seldom notice the enormous changes that the Napoleonic
Wars caused to the Western Hemisphere...things far larger
and with much greater effects than our own War of 1812. Guerra a Muerte depicts
the 14 year struggle that saw Spain's possessions
in the hemisphere change from "almost everything not U.S." to just "Cuba and
Hispanola." As in the American Revolution, the local population
could be divided into "patriots/revolutionaries" on
one side, "loyalists/Royalists" on the other, and a
huge middle block of those who wished to stay out of
battle-- over which both sides exerted tremendous pressure,
making these episodes as bitter as any period in history.
The game title means, "War to
the Death," from a proclamation
Bolivar made to all Spaniards in Venezuela: "support
us or else." see more…
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#24 Deathride
Available Oct. 2008
The Franco-Prussian War started
from a number of causes, ranging from Prussian objections
to the French buying Luxembourg, to a dispute about a
vacant Spanish throne... sounds like the "good old days" for
European wars, doesn't it?
Except,
with breech-loading rifles and artillery all around,
and the first "machine guns" in mass operation, this
war had a very modern feel about it...but still vestiges
of the old ways, especially at Mars-la-Tour, where
both sides made powerful, desperate, and bloodily
successful cavalry charges.... "Deathrides" to
the men within them.
The main French Army was
on its way to "someplace else" when
it bumped into a smaller German force at Mars-la-Tour
that promptly launched a series of attacks, aiming
(successfully) to delay the movement. While at times
the French outnumbered the Germans by as much as 5-1,
they actually believed themselves significantly outnumbered! see
more…
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#25 Storm
Over Taierzhuang
Available Dec. 2008
It sounds very familiar.
An Axis army launches an offensive to take a key city,
hoping this will be the final victory needed to knock
an Allied giant out of the war. Except the defenders
anticipated the attack and set up an elaborate trap,
turning the city into a fortress that had to be taken
block by block and building by building. With most of
the city captured, the defenders suddenly launched a
massive attack on both flanks and virtually eliminated
the Axis army.
Stalingrad, 1942: right?
No, China, 1938. Probably one of the most decisive battles that hardly any gamers have ever heard of. Until now.
Coming in ATO #25 is Storm Over
Taierzhaung. This
battalion level game offers one-day turns, area movement,
and tactical chits to factor in air support, artillery,
and special actions. As the designer explains: "I wanted
a game on the battle to be easy to learn, simple to
play but effectively showing the flow of the battle
in broad brush strokes." see
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#26 There
Must Be A Victory
Available Mar. 2009
Sailing ships with broadsides - the last vestige of "wooden ships and iron men."
They mingle in a fleet action with iron-plated steamships, speedy armored rams, and a few ships with armored turrets.
Mobile Bay? Charleston?
No, it's the Adriatic, in a short and violent naval war between Italy and Austria-Hungary. Yes, you heard right. Finally, you'll have a chance to see the Austro-Hungarian navy in action. Historically, they did very well. How will you do?
The "Seven Weeks War" of 1866 is also known as the Third Italian Independence War. The Italians want Venice. The Austrians have it. But the Italians are allied with up-and-coming Prussia, and the Austrians have a hard time on land. On the Adriatic, the A-H fleet is outnumbered and outgunned, more to 2-1 in both categories. But they have aggressive commanders and a willingness to "Ram anything painted grey!" That was the signal from the Austro-Hungarian flagship (the Italians would be the folks with gray ships). The same signal included the sentence, "There must be a victory at Lissa." see
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Operation Cartwheel was a miniaturized version of Allied Grand Strategy in
the Pacific -- a multi-pronged advance aimed to make it difficult for the Japanese
to focus their responses... a jumping from air base to potential-next-airbase.
(MacArthur called it, "Advancing the bomber line.") And, most of all, the novel
concept that not every Japanese stronghold needed to be attacked at all.
While MacArthur's original plan centered on capturing the fortress harbor
of Rabaul as the final objective, the modified plan (created by the Combined
Chiefs of Staff -- that's US and UK together) took the "wither" concept farther,
with the Admiralty Islands as the final objective and Rabaul the biggest "grape"
to leave on the vine.
"Operation Cartwheel" eventually included the Battle of the Bismarck Sea,
the death of Yamamoto, Bougainville, and the leap-frogging strategy up New
Guinea. It involved the top commanders on both sides, sometimes working in
close harmony and sometimes at ends. (The Japanese army and navy had conflicting
concepts of how to defend the area and each pursued their own ideas!)
Now, you can take charge of difficult decisions. The Allied commander must
take risks to succeed. The Japanese commander must counter Allied efforts,
while always seeking to punish the gambles involved with any risk.
With 288
5/8" counters and a 22 x 34 inch map (each
hex representing about 100 miles) Operation
Cartwheel integrates separate ground, naval,
and air games. Logistics was key, as it was at the time, but not a burden in
game mechanics.
This Annual also features a bonus game on Gazala 1942, using the Stand
at Mortain game system, with a full color map and 64 5/8" counters. Like
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