PanzerBlitz
boardgame
PanzerBlitz is a tactical board wargame by Avalon Hill featuring armored warfare on the Eastern Front in WWII. Using geomorphic mapboards and platoon units, it realistically simulates tactical combat operations.
- Players:
- 2
- Time:
- 90 min
- Min. Age:
- 12
Britannia
boardgame
Britannia is a strategic wargame depicting the millennia-long struggle for control of Britain from the Roman invasion in 43 A.D. to the Norman conquest in 1066. Players control various tribes and nations, reenacting historical battles or creating alternative outcomes for the destiny of the kingdom.
- Players:
- 3–5
- Time:
- 180–300 min
- Min. Age:
- 12
The African Campaign: Designer Signature Edition
boardgame
- Players:
- 1–2
- Time:
- 120–180 min
- Min. Age:
- 12
Risk
boardgame
Risk is a popular mass-market war game about world conquest. Turns consist of gaining reinforcements from territories and continents, attacking using dice to conquer areas, and finally moving troops to an adjacent territory.
- Players:
- 2–6
- Time:
- 120 min
- Min. Age:
- 10
Stalingrad '42: Southern Russia, June-December, 1942
boardgame
- Players:
- 2–4
- Time:
- 120–480 min
- Min. Age:
- 14
G.I. Anvil of Victory: A Squad Leader Gamette
boardgameexpansion
G.I.: Anvil of Victory is an expansion for the Squad Leader system, simulating the U.S. military campaigns from 1942 to 1945. It includes numerous counters, new mapboards, scenarios, and vehicles.
- Players:
- 2
- Time:
- 180 min
- Min. Age:
- 12
War Plan Crimson
boardgame
- Players:
- 2
- Time:
- 90–120 min
- Min. Age:
- 12
DAK2: The Campaign in North Africa, 1940-1942
boardgame
DAK II, part of the Operational Combat Series, covers the entire WWII North Africa campaign from Compass to El Alamein. This highly complex wargame features 17 scenarios, five large maps, numerous counters, and spans vast playing times.
- Players:
- 1–2
- Time:
- 360 min
- Min. Age:
- 14
D-Day
boardgame
D-Day simulates the Allied landings in France and the drive to the Rhine across 50 turns representing one week each. Allies must establish beachheads, break out, and sustain forces. Historically significant as the first wargame featuring a hexagonal grid.
- Players:
- 2
- Time:
- 120 min
- Min. Age:
- 12
Gunslinger
boardgame
Gunslinger is a tactical board game about Wild West gunfights. Players secretly plan actions for two-second intervals. The game features modular maps, historical characters, diverse weapons, and numerous historical or hypothetical scenarios.
- Players:
- 2–7
- Time:
- 90 min
- Min. Age:
- 12
Diplomacy
boardgame
Diplomacy is a classic negotiation game devoid of luck. Seven players control European great powers before WWI. Through secret orders and alliances, they attempt to expand their territories using armies and fleets in a conflict driven purely by strategy.
- Players:
- 2–7
- Time:
- 360 min
- Min. Age:
- 12
Liberty Roads
boardgame
- Players:
- 2
- Time:
- 90–1200 min
- Min. Age:
- 0
Squad Leader
boardgame
Squad Leader is a complex tactical board game simulating WWII infantry combat. It features detailed rules for morale, weapons, and terrain across twelve scenarios. A modular system and custom design tools provide extensive replay value.
- Players:
- 2
- Time:
- 60 min
- Min. Age:
- 14
Raidents
boardgame
Raidents is a pun-packed 2-player strategy board game for chess fans. Modular tiles offer 92 million board setups. Strategically deploy three of eleven rodents with unique abilities, using portals and explosives to capture the enemy's flag in this wacky war.
- Players:
- 2
- Time:
- 30–90 min
- Min. Age:
- 14
What Happens Next
boardgameexpansion
What Happens Next is an expansion for GDW's Battle for Moscow wargame. It allows the Soviet player to play out the winter counter-offensive. The variant introduces new victory conditions based on points, a winter effects table, and reinforcement rules.
- Players:
- 2
- Time:
- 120–480 min
- Min. Age:
- 12
Caesar's Legions
boardgame
Caesar's Legions is a wargame simulating Roman campaigns in Germania at an operational level. Five scenarios feature hex-based movement, tactical cards, and dice combat. Germanic units use hidden movement in forests.
- Players:
- 2
- Time:
- 90 min
- Min. Age:
- 12
Rommel in the Desert
boardgame
Rommel in the Desert is a tactical WWII wargame about the North Africa campaign. It uses wooden blocks for the fog of war and four-step unit tracking. A card-driven supply system and precise maneuvers demand strategic foresight, nerve, and a battle of wits.
- Players:
- 2
- Time:
- 180–480 min
- Min. Age:
- 12
Black Powder Red Earth 28mm: Phase Line
boardgameexpansion
- Players:
- 2
- Time:
- 30–120 min
- Min. Age:
- 0
Stalingrad
boardgame
Stalingrad is a classic 1963 hex-based wargame by Avalon Hill. Featuring alternating move-combat turns, zones of control, terrain, and weather rules, it combines straightforward mechanics with deep strategic complexity, making it historically well-analyzed.
- Players:
- 2
- Time:
- 120 min
- Min. Age:
- 12
Bitter Woods Deluxe Edition
boardgame
Bitter Woods Deluxe is a medium-complexity wargame on the 1944 Ardennes Offensive. Players command brigades and regiments on a hex map representing the border region. This fourth edition features upgraded components, larger counters, new scenarios, rulebooks, and random events.
- Players:
- 2–4
- Time:
- 240 min
- Min. Age:
- 12
Breakout: Normandy
boardgame
Breakout: Normandy is a complex two-player wargame on the Allied invasion of France in WWII. The Allies attempt landings and a breakout, while the German player tries to prevent and contain them using an area-impulse system.
- Players:
- 2
- Time:
- 240 min
- Min. Age:
- 12
Battle
boardgame
Battle is a deluxe version of the classic pencil-and-paper battleship game on a larger 15x22 grid. Players take turns attacking with ships, land-based gun batteries, and air formations with the objective of destroying the opposing forces first.
- Players:
- 2
- Time:
- 30 min
- Min. Age:
- 10
The Russian Campaign: 4th Edition
boardgame
This is the 4th edition of John Edwards' wargame by L2 Design Group. It features enhanced graphics, larger hexes and counters, new scenarios, Allied variant counters, a new weather chart, and a CD-ROM for online play with opponents.
- Players:
- 2
- Time:
- 240 min
- Min. Age:
- 12
Bug-Eyed Monsters
boardgame
This board game is based on 1950s science-fiction movies. Aliens attack Earth in two distinct scenarios to either kidnap women with specific ratings or capture the president-elect, utilizing combat and unique unit abilities.
- Players:
- 2
- Time:
- 90 min
- Min. Age:
- 12