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1. DG Decision Games Strategy & Tactics Magazine DG: Strategy & Tactics Magazine #311, with Pacific Subs Solitaire Boardgame
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Magazine of military history from all eras, with a complete board game in each issue complementing the lead articleGame in this issues is a solitaire game of managing either Japanese or US submarines on patrol in the Paciifc during World War II
Players seek to ambush enemy warships, sink merchantships, rescue sailors & airmen, and gather intelligence for glory & advancement
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Mag & game. Solitaire game of the submarine war against shipping in the Pacific during World War II. Player commands submarine forces on patrol seeking to ambush enemy warships, sink merchant ships, rescue sailors & airmen, and gather intelligence. Includes individual patrols as well as campaigns offering the possibility of promotion if you survive. Play can play either Japanese or US forces. Combines strategic elements with the popular "run a submarine" scale. 280 counters. Chris Perello'18 / ARTICLES ON: Pacific Subs; Hammer of the West, Halting the Muslim Incursions into Europe, 645-878; Sheridan's Richmond Expedition; Anti-French Insurgency in Southern Italy, 1799-1806; Cynoscephalae, Legion v Phalanx, 197BC; Profiles of Several Famous WWII U-Boats.2. DG: Strategy & Tactics Magazine, Issue # 283, with Fail Safe, Strategic Nuclear Warfare in the Cold War, Board Game
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Historical magazine including a complete board game in each issueGame focuses on the hypothetical nuclear war in the early 1950s, before the advent of ballistic missiles
Played on a polar-centric map of the northern hemisphere, with strategic air assets
228 counters
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Mag & game. Game of a late 1950s era strategic nuclear air war prior to the advent of ballistic missiles. "Object of the game is to drop sufficient nuclear weapons...to prevent them from dominating the world." Uses a large scale, polar-centric map of the world & a fast playing game system. 228 counters. J.Miranda'13 / ARTICLES ON: Strategic Nuclear Warfare in the Cold War Era; the Rise of Saladin, 12th century; battle of Bushy Run, Aug. 1763; Tulagi; birth of the Roman Navy; Rise of the Imperial Japanese Navy; Subs in the Gallipoli Campaign; Adm. George Morrison & the opening of the Vietnam War.3. DG: Strategy & Tactics Magazine #286, with Sparta vs. Athens Boardgame
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Historically-oriented magazine covering political & military history through recorded history, with a board game in each issueGame covers the Peloponnesian War, 431-400 BCE, using a point-point map at a strategic scale, on land & at sea, with an emphasis on leadership
280 counters, moderate complexity
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Mag & game. Game is a strategic-level study of the Peloponnesian War, 431-400BC, using a point-point style map. Emphasis is on leadership. Both land & naval strength is important, as is the ability to mount sieges and the unique, coalition-style city-state structure of Greece at the time. 1 scenario for the Archidamian War, plus the full campaign game. 1yr/turn (with 4 seasonal phases); 1"/18mi, 280 counters, 300-3000men/counter. T.Garland'14 / ARTICLES ON: the Peloponnesian War; Napoleon's Naval Strategy; Doughboys on the Marne, 1918; Pakistan's War Against the Taliban; the Siege of Saucy Castle, 1204; the battle of Fraustadt, 1706; Charge of the Royal Savoia [Italian Cavalry in the USSR]; the war on Mindanao, Indonesia 1972-75.4. DG: Strategy & Tactics Issue #305, with Armies of the White Sun Boardgame
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Magazine of military history thruout human history, with a complete board game in each issue to complement the lead articleGame in this issue is a solitaire game of the Japanese war against China in WWII, from 1937 to 1943 and the planned GO-GO offensive to end Chinese resistence
Player commands Japanese forces.
18-24 months/turn, 37mi hex, 280 counters, Div/corp/army level
Countersheet includes 5 errata counters for Desert Fox Deluxe #300
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Mag & game. Includes 5 errata counters for Desert Fox Deluxe 2nd #300. Solitaire game covering the battle for China from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident to the planned Operation GO-GO aimed at ending Chinese resistance in 1943. Player commands Japanese forces. Includes random events, and uses untried units for Chinese. Victory is geographically based. 18-24months/turn, 37mi/hex, 280 counters, Div/Corp/Army level. Ty Bomba'17 / ARTICLES ON: The War in China, 1937-45; Belisarius & the Reconquest of Africa; Pyrrhic Victory, the Lava Beds War, 1872-73 [near Tule Lake CA]; Vicksburg, Grant's Masterpiece; Opportunities to Win World War I; First Medal of Honor; John Riley, US Traitor & Mexican Hero; U-Boats in the Far East.5. DG: Strategy & Tactics Magazine #278 with Tobruk, Operation Crusader 1941, Board Game
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Historical magazine including a complete board game in each issueGame covers the British Operation Crusader offensive, late 1941, using the Sedan 1940 game system
Uses a chit activation system
2days/turn, rgt level, 4mi/hex.
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Mag & game. Game using using the Sedan 1940 game system & covering the Allied Operation Crusader offensive late in 1941. Uses a chit-pull divisional activation system. AT guns have ranged ability. 2days/turn, 4mi/hex, btln/rgt lvl, 3 scenarios. 228 counters. P.Youde'12 / ARTICLES ON: Tobruk 1941 & Operation Crusader; Riverine logistics at Shiloh, Apr 1862; Btl of Fei River, China, Nov 383AD; Sino-Vietnamese War, 1979; ACH-47A Helicoptor gunships; how Japan won the First World War; Geo Washington: genius or bumpkin?; today's Irish Defense Force.6. DG: Strategy & Tactics Magazine, Issue # 285, with Duel on the Steppe, Operations Star & Gallop, Feb-Mar 1943, Board Game
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Historically oriented magazine containing a complete board game in each issueThis issue features Duel on the Steppe, covering Soviet Star & Gallop offensives in the aftermath of Stalingrad
228 counter, 6.5mi/hex, div/corp level
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Mag & game. Game of the Soviet 1943 winter offensives, Operations Star & Gallop, as they use their numerical advantage against some of the best units the Germans fielded in the aftermath of Stalingrad. Focus on the area between the Donets & Dnepr Rivers. 2 scenarios: the Soviet attack, & the German Backhand Blow. Uses the Sedan 1940 & Tobruk game system. 228 counters, 6.5mi/hex, Div/corp level. P.Youde'13 / ARTICLES ON: Duel in the Steppe, Soviet Star & Gallop Offensives, Jan-Feb 1943; Alcohol, the Alamo & the Texas War for Indepence, 1835-36; Battle of Dorostolon, Byzantium Confronts the Rus, July 971AD; M16 & M60 in Vietnam; Alexander's Successors, War in Iraq 311-309BC; Marlborough, Flanders, Fodder & Fame; Pedregal; Coastwatchers in the Pacific in WWII; Suez 1956.7. DG: Strategy & Tactics Magazine #310, with American Civil War Boardgame
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Magazine of military history of all eras, with a complete board game in each issue complementing the lead articleGame in this issue is a (very significantly) update of the American Civil War game published in S&T 43 a long, long time ago, now colorized & flushed out with more nuance
Covers the entire war on one map at a strategic scale: the South must maintain a viable war economy while the Union makes inroads trying to break up the Confederacy
Quarterly turns, generic strength point units, 280 counters
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Mag & game. Substantial revision of the 1974 game covering the whole of the American Civil War, 1861-5 at a strategic scale on 1 map. Confederacy must maintain a viable economy as the Union makes inroad into southern territory. Sudden death conditions apply at the end of each quarterly turn, enforcing political realities of the time. Leadership is a key factor in winning battles, and the South starts with an advantage; Union must develop leadership by participating in battles - many of which they will lose intially. Includes nuanced rules such as for river bends, foraging, political considerations. 280 counters, 20mi/hex. James Dunnigan, Chris Perello'18 / ARTICLES ON: the American Civil War; Imperial Overreach, the Athenian Disaster on Sicily; Montrose in Scotland during the English Civil War, 1644-46; the Role of the US Merchant Marine in Global War; Mosby's Rangers, 1863-5; Flavius Aetius, Last of the True Romans; Thrace & the Cold War.8. DG: Strategy & Tactics Magazine issue #277, with Ticonderoga, Battles for Lake George 1755-58 Board Game
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Historical magazine including a complete board game in each issueGame covers 3 yearly campaigns & 3 raids in the Ticonderoga/Lake George area during the French & Indian War, 1755-8
Uses a coordinated Operational & Grand Tactical maps
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Mag & game. Grand tactical-operational level game of six battles in upper New York in an area called Ticonderoga along Lake George during the French & Indian War, 1755-58. Random events play a big role including leader ability. 3 raid & 3 campaign scenarios including the 1755, 1757 & 1758 campaigns. 1.5mi/hex on operational map, 400yd/hex on tactical, 50-800men/unit. 280 counters. W.Nester, E.Harvey'12 / ARTICLES ON: the Battles for Lake George, 1755-8; Mongol military disasters; WWI German Anti-Tank tactics; the 1968 USS Pueblo incident; Colin Powell & the doctrine of decisive force; hangings in the US civil war; rationale for the 1882 British occupation of Egypt.9. Strategy & Tactics Magazine #308 Jan/Feb 2018
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Magazine10. DG: Strategy & Tactics Issue #304 with the American Revolution in the South Boardgame
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Magazine of military history of all eras thru human history. Includes a complete board game in each issue to parallel the lead articleGame covers 5 of the historical campaigns conducted in the Carolinas during the American Revolution, 1776-81
Game emphasis is on leaders & leadership
280 colorful counters, 8mi/hex, 50-1500min/unit, individual leaders
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