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Alexander:
Delux Edition: The Macedonian art of war (338-362
BC), Ten battles of Alexander the Great.
VASSAL
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SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus,
The Art of War in the Roman Republic. The battles from the end of
the Macedonian era through the heyday of the Republic, prior to the
changes in the army.
VASSAL
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Caesar:
Conquest of Gaul: In 58 BC, Gaius Julius Caesar was appointed
by the Roman Senate as proconsul for Gaul. After coming to the rescue
of the Gauls against incursions from
Germanic tribes to the east, Caesar himself decided to bring the rest
of the barbarian tribes under the domain of Republican Rome.
VASSAL
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The
Siege of Alesia: Gaul,
52 BC, Caesar besieging Vercingetorix's Gauls, and the
Gallic relief force attacking Caesar.
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Caesar:
The Civil Wars: The Roman Civil Wars (48 - 45 BC),
Caius Julius Caesar vs. Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.
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Cataphract
and Justinian: The Byzantine Empire re-captures a
large portion of the formerly Western Roman Empire.
VASSAL
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Devil's Horsemen: The Mogul War Machine in the 13th Century (2004)
The steppe tribe warfare, immortalized
by the mighty armies of Genghis Khan and the Mongols. From the Fury of the Tartars, oh Lord, Deliver Us.
VASSAL
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Here I
Stand: Wars
of the Reformation 1517-1555. (2006)
Grand strategy game covering the political and religious conflicts of
early 16th Century Europe.
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Samurai: Warfare
in the Sengoku Jidai (1560-1600), this was the Age of Warring Daimyos, Japan was truly a country at war.
VASSAL
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Ran: The highly personal form of warfare developed by the Japanese
samurai (1569-1615), where formal battles played out almost as backdrops to
individual feats of courage, bravery and devotion much of it
outstanding, all of it very Homeric.
VASSAL
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Thirty
Years War: Europe in Agony 1618-1648.
(2001)
Grand strategy game between the Protestant forces and the forces of the
Catholics for control over Germany.
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Lion
of the North: The Thirty Years' War. Gustavus II
Adolphus, King of Sweden, vs. Tilly's virtually undefeated
Catholic army of the Hapsburg empire.
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Gustav
Adolf the Great: With
God and Victorious Arms (1627-1632). (2006)
The Swedish-style brigades face the tough Polish cavalry,
lance equipped winged Husars and
Cossacks, the unbeaten Tilly at
the head of the allied Catholic League and Imperial armies. Finally,
Wallenstein, with a resurgent Imperial army, draws out the Swedes to
attack on ground of his choosing.
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Sweden
Fights On: Four Battles of the Thirty Years
War (1634-1645). (2003)
The Swedish king is dead, the Swedes are struggling with their command.
Torstenson, Banér and Horn hope they are still able to
exploit the momentum the king had generated.
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This
Accursed Civil war: Five Battles of the
English Civil War (1642-1645). (2001)
The Royalist army and the army of the Parliament struggle over the
issue, "Is the king beholden to Parliament or if he is truly
sovereign?"
VASSAL
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Wilderness
War: The French & Indian war
(1755-1760). (2001)
A two player game that cover the struggle between France and Britain
for control over North America. Using strategy cards and point to point
map similar to For the People and Path
of Glory.
VASSAL
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Prussia's
Glory: The Battles of Frederick the Great
(1757-1760). (2002)
Four of Frederick's most famous actions come to life using a system
heavy on nuance but easy on time and space. From Prussian triumphs of Rossbach
and Leuthen to the bloody ordeals at Zorndorf
and Torgau, players can examine the
Seven Year War in games playable in a single evening,
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Flying Colors: Fleet Actions in The Age of Sail
(1756-1805). (2005)
This gamerecreates naval actions during the height of the Age of Sail, from
small engagements to full battles involving dozens of ships in each
fleet.
VASSAL
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For the
People: The American Civil War covering the conflict from
Texas to Pennsylvania, from the firing on Fort Sumter to the end at
Appomattox Court House.
VASSAL
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1863:
In 1863 you face the challenge of desperate, hard-charging brawls and
tense clashes of subtle maneuver in a the four major battles.
Gettysburg (July, 1863), Fredericksburg II (May,1863), Brandy Station
(June, 1863) and Mine Rune the battle that could have been the greatest
battle of the war, but never happened.
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Paths
of Glory: They called it the Great War, the War to end all
Wars.
VASSAL
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Rise of
the Luftwaffe: Aerial combat over Europe during World War II.
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Eighth
Air Force: Aerial combat over Europe continues with the
major fighter and bomber aircraft flown by the German, British, Russian
and United States air forces.
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Arctic
Storm: Stalin's powerful Red Army invades the tiny nation of
Finland, before the war is over Stalin and the rest of the world have
learned their first Finnish word: "sisu," meaning
"guts."
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Invasion
Norway: As an attempt to secure Norwegian ports for his
U-boats and make sure that German freighters could deliver Swedish iron
ore from the port of Narvik, Hitler ordered Operation
Weseruebung, the invasion of Norway.
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Operation
Mercury: On May 21, 1941 German fallscharmjäger,
battlehardened from the invasions of Holland and Norway, spearheaded
Hitler's daring assualt on Crete. They where soon locked in lfierce
struggle against the multi national defenders. The operation was a
German victory, but so costly that Hitler never deployed his paratroops
again in a major airborne operation.
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Barbarossa:
Army Group South, 1941: June --
the German juggernaut rolls over the Soviet Army. Kiev, the first major
German objective in the south, did not fall on schedule. In fact,
Soviet resistance was so fierce that it required diverting Guderian's
Panzer Group.
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Barbarossa:
Army Group Center, 1941: June --
Army Group Center hurls itself through the Soviet border defenses, and
its two Panzer groups race headlong toward Minsk. Behind them lie the
remnants of the Soviet Western Front; almost a million men in four
armies.
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Barbarossa:
Army Group North, 1941: June --
Army Group North, the smallest of the three German army groups, drives
forward into the Baltic states. Its objective is Leningrad once the
crown jewel of Czarist Russia.
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Typhoon!
Drive to Moscow: In the fall of 1941, the
German Blitzkrieg was ready for one more final grand effort: The
conquest of Moscow.
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Ukraine
'43: On August 3rd, 1943, less than
two weeks after the Kursk offensive, the Soviets launched a massive
offensive near Kharkov that ripped open the German line. The ensuing
battle began their summer offensive that would take them across the
Ukraine to the Dnieper River.
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June,
6th: The months of training and
preparation are over, the Great Crusade begins with the landing of
eight Allied infantry and parachute divisions in Normandy. Facing them
on the beaches and in the hedgerows are some of the best and worst
formations in the German Army.
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Air
Bridge to Victory: Operation Market-Garden, 1944.
(1990)
At 1230 hours, Sunday, September 17, 1944 the U.S. 82nd
and 101st Airborne along with the British 1st
Airborne launched the greatest military gamble of World War II. The
strategic prize was to outflank the German Rhine defense.
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Silver
Bayonet: The First Team in Vietnam, 1965.
(1990)
The newly formed 1st Cavalry Division, meet
General Vo Nguyen Giaps North Vietnamese Army Division. The unblooded
American soldiers were faced against a tough and well trained foe, a
victory would not come easily for the Americans.
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Crisis:
Sinai 1973: On October 6, 1973, Egyptian forces, lavishly
equipped with the latest Soviet weaponry, launched a surprise attack in
overwhelming strength against the 436 Israeli infantrymen and 200 tanks
that were guarding the Suez Canal.
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