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Average Print & Play Historical Wargames
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The items in this GeekList are ordered by average rating
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Posted Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:26 pm
Edited Sun Aug 16, 2009 7:34 pm
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This wargame, in Portuguese, simulates the events that occurred between August of 1999 and November of 1999, in Central Africa.
The game is divided in turns, each turn corresponds to one week of real time. The totality of the events that this wargame intends to represent are between 2nd August 98 and the 14th of November 1998, therefore 15 game turns.
Availability: www.portaldoswargames.com.br/modules.php?name=Content&pa=sho...
Price: FREE
Printing/mounting weight: Light
Number of ratings: 4
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Task Force 421 is an attempted simulation of the most important combined naval and air battle of the Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988, named Operation Morvarid (pearl), in a tactical/operational level. This particular battle took place in two days, during 27 and 28 November 1980; initiated by Iran landing a small Special Forces demolition team aboard the Iraqi al-Bakr offshore platform. Al-Bakr was a significant intelligence gathering post, and a safe haven for the Iraqi missile boats, from which to operate against the Iranian shipping. Before the start of the war, over one-third of the Iraq’s oil was exported via al-Bakr and the nearby al-Omayeh platform.
Availability: www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/wsg/consim.html
Price: FREE
Cyberboard gamebox available
Number of ratings: 2
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Board Game: Gators!
[Average Rating:6.75 Unranked]
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Gators! is a 2-player wargame depicting a modern US Marines amphibious operation.
The basic OPFOR is based on American equipment from the 1950's and 60's.
Expension: Airborne!
Availability: www.cke1st.com/m_games1.htm
Price: FREE
Printing/mounting weight: Light
Number of ratings: 2
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Covers Operation Ordzhonikidze in the Caucasus in 1942 where the Germans achieved thier furthest advance.
Availability: http://pweb.jps.net/~perrya/
Price: 11$
Printing/mounting weight: Light
Number of ratings: 2
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This game is a stand alone battle to be played with Gringo! rules.
Gringo! The Mexican War 1846-1848: for the battles in Gringo!, both sides run the gamut from mountain assaults to street-fighting, allowing gamers to see some of the differences between ACW-era tactics and those of the Napoleonic era.
Availability: www.gmtgames.com/cwgr/churubusco.html
Price: FREE
Printing/mounting weight: Light
Cyberboard gamebox:
http://www.gmtgames.com/cwgr/cbchurubusco.zip
Number of ratings: 8
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Special Forces is an easy to learn, fast-paced modern day board game. The game is extremely tactical with each counter representing an individual soldier.
Special Forces focuses on the special operations carried out in 2004 and 2005 Iraq.
Availability: www.dvg.com/.sc/ms/dd/ee/10
Price: 9.99$
Printing/mounting weight: ?
Number of ratings: 8
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Board Game: Caliphate
[Average Rating:6.70 Unranked]
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Caliphate focuses on the rise and fall of Islamic civilization in the (approx.) 7th to 12th centuries. It is a game of conquest, trade, diplomacy, and building up your emirate economically, culturally, military, etc. Inspired by historical events, but not a strict historical simulation.
Availability: www.lc.dds.nl/papercut/caliphate.html
Price: FREE
Printing/mounting weight: Medium 
(11 pages of cards, a large map, a couple of sheets of counters, a player sheet apiece, and the rulebook)
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A Bloody Business: the Battle for Hue, Tet 1968 covers the attack on the old Imperial capital of Hue by forces of the North Vietnamese Army and South Vietnamese insurgents of the National Liberation Front during the Tet Offensive.
Availability: www.firefight-games.com
Price: 16$/12$ pdf
Printing/mounting weight: Light
Number of ratings: 3
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Covers the Battle of Xuan Loc April 1975. Basically ARVN defenders backed up by air power vs. hordes of NVA with tanks and heavy artillery.
This is a redux to Perry Moore's original game. Defiance (Swedish Games).
System is similar to Perry Moore's Nanawa: Verdun in the Chaco War, July 1933.
Availability: www.wargamedownloads.com/item.php?item=519
Price: 11$
Printing/mounting weight: Light
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Simple naval-battle rules for 20th-century ships, especially my "All the Ships" counters. Minimal record-keeping and critical-hit-centered rules bring large battles into the realm of possibility, while preserving most of each ship's details. 2 players.
Comes with ship counters for naval battles. Almost every major warship from the 1890's to the end of WWII, and a growing section of modern ships. Over 7500 ships so far, not counting aircraft.
Availability - rules: www.cke1st.com/m_games1.htm
Availability - maps and ships: www.cke1st.com/m_games4.htm
Price: FREE
Printing/mounting weight: Light
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From publisher site:
Embark on an ancient time of, political and military upheaval as great empires struggle for world power. A game that combines civilization building, strategic planning, wargaming, and empire building all in one!
Availability: www.biglittlegames.com/impirivm.php
Printing/mounting weight: ??
Number of ratings: 48
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The last cavalry crusade.
This is a 2 player game on the last great horse cavalry campaign in history. The game covers the first 48 hours of the offensive launched by General Edmund Allenby's army on the 19th September 1918 in northern Palestine (now Israel).
Availability: www.wargamedownloads.com/item.php?item=689
Price: 5$
Printing/mounting weight: Light
Number of ratings: 10
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In Solitaire Caesar the player re-creates the rise and fall of the Roman Empire from 300BC to 1453AD.
You will lead the legions of Rome to victory, and then struggle to preserve
the legacy of Empire from Barbarian onslaughts.
This is a solitaire wargame. It is province based, and will take
approximately 60 minutes to play.
Availability: www.wargamedownloads.com
Price: 5$
Printing/mounting weight: Light
Number of ratings: 46
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A quick and easy campaign game for the Crusades period in the Byzantine Empire,
including map, counters, and miniatures interface for our "Ironbow" rules.
In fact, the game is leader driven- good leaders get things done, while poor ones are a hinderance. Counters representing every troop type are here, including Turkish Ghulam heavy cavalry, Turkomen horse archers, light and heavy infantry, Byzantine Cataphracts, Norman and Varangian mercenaries, Petchenegs, everyone. It comes with a battle board so you don't have to stop the game for every battle if you don't want to, but the troops convert directly into "Ironbow" units for those of you who want to play miniatures.
Availability: http://perfectcaptain.50megs.com/request.html
Price: FREE
Printing/mounting weight: Light(?)
Number of ratings: 4
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This small, but very competitive game on the first clash between the French-Piedmontese army and the Austrian one in May 1859 during the first phases of the campaign known as the Second Italian War for Independence, is an almost skirmish battle fought on the country roads and the fields near Voghera, on the road from Piedmont towards Milano.
The simple, but not simplistic rules integrate movement and combat, several readiness status for the various leaders and troops present on the field of battle, fire and melee rules, morale, territorial gains and so on.
Availability: www.wargamedownloads.com
Price: 4$
Printing/mounting weight: Light
Number of ratings: 4
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Covers the Syrian attack on the Golan Heights from October 7th to 11th during the Yom Kippur War.
Packs a lot into a small package (8 pages of rules) - Syrian bridging tanks, aircraft, mines, artillery, Sagger missiles, leadership, morale and night all get rules. Most of the fighting is fire combat between hostile units, resulting in disruptions (which must be rallied from) and step losses.
First published in Armchair General - May 2006.
Availability: www.wargamedownloads.com/item.php?item=540
Price: 14.95$
Printing/mounting weight: Light
Number of ratings: 7
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Modern Naval Battles is a novel card game for two to six players, based on present day sea power. The games is played in "rounds," with players taking turns to maneuver the ships in their fleets, attack opponent’s ships, and defend their own fleet against enemy attack. At the end of each round, players receive points for each enemy vessel they have sunk. The game can end when a player achieves a specific point total, or when all opposing fleets are sunk.
Availability: www.relativerange.com/Relative_Range/Cold_War_Naval_Battles....
Price: FREE
Printing/mounting weight: Very heavy (220 cards) 
Number of ratings: 242
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Third game in the series, depicts the famous battle of the Third Crusade, where Richard I Lionheart defeated a Saracen force led by Saladin on the Mediterrean cost near Arsuf. It was a tactical victory for the Crusaders, that were however unable to retake Jerusalem.
Availability: www.wargamedownloads.com/item.php?item=736
Price: 5$
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The Cod Wars covers a series of naval clashes between Icelandic fishery protection vessels and British warships and trawlers in the 1970s over fishing rights.
A very simple game but definitely has the flavour of the conflict combined with manoeuvre strategy.
Available for download on the game's BGG webpage.
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Dien Bien Phu: Trenches in the Tropics is a simple simulation of the battle of Dien Bien Phu (March 13 - May 7 1954). This decisive battle saw French elite troops defeated by the Vietminh led by General Vo Nguyen Giap. It put an end to the French domination over Indochina and was a great victory for the Vietnamese Communist party who would be seen, after this event, as the party who gave freedom to its own people. Dien Bien Phu: Trenches in the Tropics is a two-player war game. One player commands the Vietminh, while the other commands the French forces.
Availability: www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/wsg/consim.html
Price: FREE
Cyberboard gamebox available
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Afghanistan 1980 is a strategic simulation of the fight between the Mujahideen and the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union in the unforgiving mountainous terrain of Afghanistan.
The simulation begins in early 1980 after the initial occupation force of the 40th Army has been deployed.
Availability: www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/ws/consim.html
Price: FREE
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ZAMA: Hannibal vs Scipio, 202 B.C. covers the classic battle between Hannibal and his Carthaginians and the Roman army of Scipio Africanus.
Expect solid rules and non-stereotypical play through the use of game cards. Players can play up to 5 cards each turn, interactively, for movement, combat, or special events. Includes a map, counters, and cards -- but no hexes or CRT.
Availability: http://web.mac.com/bergbrog
Price: 10$
Printing/mounting weight: Light (?)
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Posted Tue Mar 3, 2009 7:11 pm
