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Best Print & Play Historical Wargames
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Posted Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:27 am
Edited Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:02 am
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Lock 'N Load: Forgotten Heroes Vietnam is a fast moving, fun to play, tactical level game of small unit actions in the Vietnam War. While players will find it to be an accurate depiction of squad level combat you won't have to wade through a hundred pages of rules to play. In fact, you'll be up and playing after reading less than a dozen pages of rules!"
Due to repeated requests, a downloadable version of the original—and almost four years out of print—Lock ‘n Load module is currently available. Whether you’re a fan of the original or a gamer that missed out the first time around, Forgotten Heroes: Revision 2 (FHR2) provides a unique window to the squad-level confrontations of the Vietnam War.
Availability: http://locknloadgame.com/_store/DeptProduct.asp?DeptID=1003&...
Price: $14.99
Printing/mounting weight: Medium (5 colorful maps) 
Number of ratings: 176
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The game places you in command of the pilots and aircraft of a modern day squadron of U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornet Strike fighters.
Availability: www.wargamedownloads.com
Price: 14.99$
Printing/mounting weight: Very heavy 
Number of ratings: 72
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Valor & Victory is a fast playing, easy to learn World War II squad-level game system. V&V gets you into the action quickly without requiring you to learn a lot of minutia and unnecessary detail. But don't let that fool you — V&V is a complete WWII wargaming system, covering infantry and armored combat, artillery and air strikes, snipers, close assaults, armored overruns, fortifications, and much more!
Availability: http://www.valorandvictory.com/
Price: FREE
Printing/mounting weight: Light to Medium (can start with few prints)
Number of ratings: 56
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Arriba Espana! is a simulation game on the Spanish Civil War of 1936-9. The game is for two players, one representing the left-wing coalition government of the Spanish Republic (the Government Player), and the other the alliance of right-wing forces that rose in revolt against it (the Rebel Player).
Availability: https://shop.fierydragon.com/displayProductDocument.hg?produ...
Price: 9$
Printing/mounting weight: Light
Number of ratings: 30
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By 1938, the Second Sino-Japanese war was not going well for the Chinese. Since July 7, 1937, the Japanese conquered huge swathes of Northern and Eastern China and were steadily pushing deeper into China. With the conquest of Shanghai, Beijing, and Nanjing in 1937, Jiang Jie Shi (Chang Kai Shek) had moved his headquarters to Wu Han. The Japanese seeing an opportunity struck to capture the impor-tant rail junction of Xuzhou endangering Wu Han and forcing a Chinese capitulation. On January 26, 1938, the Japanese launched their offensive towards Xuzhou and by the evening of March 24, 1938, the Japanese 10th division (with around 25,000 men and around 100 tanks and armored cars) had reached the Taierzhuang area. The stage was set what ended up being a massive battle for a small stoned town, which would exchange hands many times. It was the Samurai Stalingrad!
Availability: www.wargamedownloads.com
Price: 11$
Printing/mounting weight: Light
Number of ratings: 27
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Corsair Leader is based on the Hornet Leader II core game, but with some significant changes. The game focuses on the Marine F4U Corsairs in the Pacific. The 2 campaigns cover the Solomon Islands campaign that lasted from late 1942 to early 1944.
Like the other games in the "Leader" series, Corsair Leader is a solitare game.
Availability: www.wargamedownloads.com
Price: 14.99$
Printing/mounting weight: Very heavy (75 cards)
Number of ratings: 19
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Algeria is a game simulating the conflict between the FLN Arab nationalist guerrillas and the French government from 1954 to 1962. During the game, the FLN player tries to erode the authority of the French colonial authorities and replace their governing structures with his own, to the point that Algeria makes the transition from being the 10th department of France to national independence.
Availability: http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=5...
Price: 9$
Printing/mounting weight: Light
Number of ratings: 17
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Game is a very simple grand strategic simulation of the war between Nazi Germany and the USSR from 1941 to 1945. It was designed for use in the "War studies" course run by the designer at King's College , London.
Availability: www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/ws/consim.html
Price: FREE
Printing/mounting weight: Light
Number of ratings: 16
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Montebello is a complete free game meant to be an introduction to the Napoleonic Brigade Series (NBS). Its counter mix is small and the full game can be played in a couple of hours. It depicts the battle of Montebello, June 9th, 1800.
Availability: www.gamersarchive.net/theGamers/archive/nbs.htm
Price: FREE
Printing/mounting weight: Light
Number of ratings: 13
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Down In Flames WWI is the newest edition to the Down In Flames series of award-winning games!
This game opens up the skies of WWI for a whole new flying adventure. Fans of the WWII games will quickly learn the new rules and enjoy the new decisions and options offered by the new game. New fans will be up and flying within 15 minutes of reading the rules.
This game also has an extenion: Down In Flames - WWI - Bombers
Availability: www.wargamedownloads.com
Price: 14.99$
Printing/mounting weight: Very heavy (150+ cards)
Number of ratings: 13
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ACTION FRONT! Watchtower is the first in a projected series of DTP microgames covering tactical combat in WWII. Te game's expandable system is reminiscent of the venerable Panzerblitz/Panzer Leader games, with a feeling of the Five-Star series thrown in. Each game is played on 4 x 8 inch semi-geomorphic maps, with a fast, furious sequence of play that minimizes bookkeeping and maximizes the action. Players may play the included scenarios or create their own using the provided rules.
Watchtower comes with 20 US and 20 Japanese units, allowing players to recreate the epic struggle of the 1st US Marine Division on Guadalcanal in September and October of 1942. USMC Raiders and Paramarines square off against Chi-Ha tanks and leg mortars. Special rules are included for Henderson Field and banzai attacks.
Availability: www.wargamedownloads.com
Price: 5.99$
Printing/mounting weight: Light
Number of ratings: 12
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Board Game: Espinosa
[Average Rating:7.17 Unranked]
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Napoleonic Brigade Series (NBS) playtest kit. Depicts the battle of Espinosa de los Monteros on November 10th and 11th, 1808.
Availability: www.gamersarchive.net/theGamers/archive/nbs.htm
Price: FREE
Printing/mounting weight: Light
Number of ratings: 12
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This is a small-format game (one 8.5 x 11" map, 125 counters) covering the battle for landing zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang valley in 1965 (the battle featured in the movie "We Were Soldiers").
First published in Armchair General.
Availability: www.wargamedownloads.com/item.php?item=539
Price: 14,95$
Printing/mounting weight: Light
Number of ratings: 11
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As the year 2015 came to a close it was clear the world was in a new trend. Instead of fighting wars with their own conventional forces, nations found it easier to pass the burden of conflict along to private contractors. They could be expensive, but a mercenary force was less politically liable than a country and more expendable. The best survived, and went on to glory and profit. The most famous and sought after are the mercenary pilots.
Availability: www.wargamedownloads.com/item.php?item=668&pics=2
Price: 9.95$
Printing/mounting weight: Very heavy
Number of ratings: 8
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In the 1920s, United States military planners hatched a scheme for the invasion of Canada. Called War Plan Crimson, it was a subset of War Plan Red, the plan for war with England, the largest, most detailed and most amended of all the U.S. war plans. A war with Great Britain and the British Commonwealth would be a world-wide conflict, easily making the term “Second World War” appropriate.
There are 13 scenarios, or separate game situations, included, with many more to join them in future Daily Content segments. The game uses the regular Great War at Sea rules, with some special rules to address this unusual situation.
Availability : http://www.avalanchepress.com/gamePlanCrimson.php
Price: FREE for or Gold Club members (30$)
Printing/mounting weight: ?
Number of ratings: 8
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Board Game: Au Pont de Lodi
[Average Rating:7.29 Unranked]
[Average Rating:7.29 Unranked]
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The First Italy Campaign (1796-1797) was actually the most brilliant military expedition of the French Revolu-tionary Wars.The Lodi manoeuver was also, strategically thinking, a large flanking operation against Beaulieu’s army.
“Au pont de Lodi” is a simulation of the May 10, 1796 battle, which opened the way to general Bonaparte’s triumph over the Austrian Lombardische Armée, leading his Italy’s army towards the seize of Milan.
Using the rules (not provided) for the La Bataille series from Clash of Arms.
Availability: www.valgame.eu/noturkey/lodi1_09.pdf
Price: FREE
Printing/mounting weight: Light
Number of ratings: 7
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Bir Buyuk Turk Saldiri (The Great Turk Attack) covers the climatic end of the Asia Minor War that began in 1919. By 1922, the British, French and Italians had long abandoned the Greek Army's occupation of some 400 km in Turkey. Originally planned to recover the spoils of WW1 when Turkey surrendered, the Allied powers had promised Greece a part of Turkey, which the Greeks claimed was part of "Greater Greece". The Greeks by the Summer of 1921, had advanced to within 30 km of Ankara, there the critical battle of the Sakarya River ended the advance. The failure of the battle now turned public opinion at home and amongst troops in Turkey against the war. From 1921 to 1922, the Greek Asia Minor Army held a 400 km front line. The Greeks were hoping and desperately looking for a honorable way out of the mess that the British had got them in. Greece was going broke because of the war and depended on England to provide monetary loans. Greek morale wavered.
The Turks under Mustapha Kemal (Ataturk) were about to give a good reason for the Greeks to leave.
Availability: http://pweb.jps.net/~perrya/
Price: 11$
Printing/mounting weight: Light
Number of ratings: 7
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This stand-alone product contains everything you need to re-fight the great naval campaigns that shaped the face of the world. All of the rules you need to run a game as the admiralty of a great nation are included in this 80-page book. So stare down your opponent from across the sea, and make the important decisions that control the fate of kings! Nations that controlled the seas controlled their own destinies.
Availability: www.wargamedownloads.com/item.php?item=267&Site=BGG
Price: 12.5$
Printing/mounting weight: Light
Number of ratings: 6
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To The Last Man! is a strategic level wargame of World War 1 covering all aspects of the western front.
Availability: http://landships.free.fr/TTLM/download.html
Price: FREE
Printing/mounting weight: Medium
Number of ratings: 6
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Mark Woloshen's epic game covering the Russian Civil War has been teaching history students the nuances of this complicated period. Now, Firefight Games offers it as a wargame. The game is unique for the rules cover everything in simplicity yet, making the correct decision makes it tough to master! Political influence and recruiting plays a vital and realistic role, for these decisions will impact military units and their use! Technology (tanks, aircraft) is important but it alone cannot win the game. The beautiful area map conveys at a glance the massive expanses of the war, for each area plays a critical political role. The game is deceptively simple to learn, yet, like Chess, hard to master.
Availability: www.firefight-games.com
Price: 17$ printed / 11$ in pdf
Printing/mounting weight: Light
Number of ratings: 6
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Island War Deluxe is a squad-level game of skirmishes in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War. You control Squads of Japanese and Americans, tanks, machine-guns, flamethrowers, bombers, fighters and Leaders as you fight battles on Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tarawa, and Guadacanal.
Availability: www.wargamedownloads.com/item.php?item=537
Price: 22.95 $
Printing/mounting weight: Medium (4 colorful maps)
Number of ratings: 6
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THE DECLINE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
March on Rome is a multi-player family oriented game set in the declining Roman empire. Up to 4 players compete against events and each other to ensure their name is remembered by history.
Availability: www.angelfire.com/games2/warpspawn/MORome.html
Price: FREE
Printing/mounting weight: Light
Number of ratings: 6
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Posted Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:57 am
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what a wonderful list you posted! A job well done!!
Cheers
Andy (521tiger)