27 - The Pocket at Falaise

Volume 7, Number 3 (#27) The Pocket at Falaise

Cable TV news is full of horrific photos from “Highways of Death,” from Iraq to Libya that seem, almost literally, to be “paved” with burnt-out vehicles. Those who study WWII remember similar destruction... on the road out of the Falaise Pocket... where 25 German divisions raced for survival. But the devastation there was something unprecedented.

28 - "Tarleton's Quarter!"

Volume 7, Number 4 (#28) "Tarleton's Quarter!"

"Tarleton's Quarter!" is a game about the British attempt to win the American Revolution by invading the Southern colonies. The object of the British efforts in the South was to bring the four southern colonies—Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia—back under British sway after almost four years of uninterrupted Continental control.

31 - Hungarian Nightmare

Volume 8, Issue 3 (#31) Hungarian Nightmare

Hungarian Nightmare is a simulation of one of the most bitter city fights of the Second World War: Budapest. Designer Mark Stille (North Wind Rain, Imperial Sunset and Wintergewitter) brings us the very first game ever to focus entirely on the grim city fight.

Between 26 December 1944 to 12 February 1945, an encircled garrison of some 79,000 German and Hungarian combat troops defended Budapest against 177,000 Soviet troops assisted by a Rumanian corps (of doubtful quality).

32 - Birth of a Legend

Volume 8, Issue 4 (#32) Birth of a Legend

“Lee will never venture upon a bold movement on a large scale.”

The Seven Days Campaign, fought from June 26th to July 2nd, 1862, represented the Union's finest chance to put an early end to the great rebellion, and the Confederacy's best shot at "bagging" an entire Union Army.

Virtually unknown when appointed to command the month before, Gen. Robert E. Lee promptly renamed his force, "The Army of Northern Virginia" - defining a future theater of operations the present defenders of the swampy ground east of Richmond could scarcely imagine. Aggressive and imaginative by nature, Lee summoned virtually every spare unit the South could muster for that rarest of Southern advantages, numerical superiority...