PENDING GAME RELEASES due between due 23/ 1 and due 23/ 7??? ***************** Fine Game for Players & Collectors ****************** ************************* 01-27-23 16:01 **************************** Fine Games, 2078 Madrona St., North Bend, OR 97459-2143 M.Dean@FineGames.com www.FineGames.com Box Est Cash Expected Publsr / Game Title & Edition Typ Wght PriceEA Rels Date ------ -------------------------------- --- ---- ------- ------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AGAINST THE ODDS MAGAZINE (Agains) (541) 756-4711 10am-9pm PST BEYOND WATERLOO, 2011 ANNUAL 2ND HP $45.00 due 23/ 2 2021 update with full 1814 & 1815 expansions, revised map, new Battle Tactics cards. ATO 2011 Annual (published as usual a year late). 2012 Charles Roberts Best Mag Game of the Year winner. Game & historical booklet focused on the 1815 Waterloo campaign, with a particular focus on the broader possibilities for the campaign rather than merely the 3 day battle. This game begins in a unique way: Napoleon has just returned to Paris from exile, and the Allies must decide how to react. Map covers all of France plus portions of Spain & central Europe; system includes economic, diplomatic as well as military aspects of the campaign. Multiple levels of game complexity. J.Prados'21 CROWNING GLORY, AUSTERLITZ 1805 HP $32.50 due 23/ 2 Mag & game. Includes Enter the Dragon expansion counters for Red Dragon Blue Dragon. Game of what is generally considered Napoleon's greatest victory, the crushing defeat of the Austrians & Russians at Austerlitz in 1805. Feigning weakness, Napoleon encouraged his opponents to attack his right flank which they did, whereupon he attacked their center. Breaking thru, the French surrounded the Third Coalition forces. 600yd/hex, brig/div level, 1hr/turn. Ty Bomba'22 HITLER'S STALINGRAD, BRESLAU 1945 #56 HP $32.50 due 23/ 2 2D Mag & game. Update of this game of the successful German defense of the city of Breslau against daunting odds from Feb'45 thru the end of the war. A garrson of 50,000, most of which were Volkstrum, held out against the Soviet 6th Army of 80,000 which laid siege to the city. 324 counters, 650yd/hex, 1wk/turn, Co./btln level. Perry Moore'22 MONTY'S D-DAY 2ND #54 HP $29.00 due 23/ 2 Mag & Game. Update of this Co/Btln level game of the battles on the first day along the British sector of the D-Day invasion. Emphasizes deployment formation as the key variable for movement or combat. 200 counters, 2 scenarios. Mates with Bradley's D-Day. This is an update of earlier version printed in S&T Magazine in 1995, with updated graphics, plus rules for parachute & amphibious lands, and new German alternative responses to the invasion. 280 counters. J.Prados'21 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BOUNDING FIRE PRODUCTIONS (Boundi) (541) 756-4711 10am-9pm PST ASL:BEYOND THE BEACHHEAD 2 [3RD] Fo 1.0 $43.00 due 23/ 2 2022 reprint. Scenario pack including 4 maps & 5 overlays covering 16 scenarios in the bocage country of Normandy, 1944. Reqs multiple ASL kits to play. This is a superset of the 1st ed BtB kit. '22 ASL:HIGH GROUND 2 [2ND] Fo $44.00 due 23/ 2 2022 update. Scenario pack that includes 8 scenarios from all fronts & 2 mounted geomorphic maps, all of which focus on hilly or mountanous terrain (or valleys). 2nd edition revises 7 of the 8 scenarios and adds 9 more, plus a half-board castle overlay. '22 ASL:OPERATION COBRA 2ND Fo 0.9 $38.00 due 23/ 2 2022 reprint. Scenario pack w/ 88 new counters, 12 scenarios & a bocage overlay covering actions during the US Cobra offensive that began the breakout from Normandy. Reqs many ASL kits to play all scenarios. '22 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COLUMBIA GAMES (ColumG) (541) 756-4711 10am-9pm PST ROMMEL IN THE DESERT 4TH BC $80.00 due 23/ 2 Reprint with a complete cosmetic overhaul. Remastered, larger map is now mounted, Rommel cards are printed on playing-card stock, even box is better. Mechanics are the same. Simple, challenging block system game of the entire war in N.Africa, Spt'40-Nov'42, at rgt lvl. 7 Scenarios using Columbia's block system to provide fog-of-war and logistical limits. RECOMMENDED. C.Besinque'22 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COMPASS GAMES (Compas) (541) 756-4711 10am-9pm PST ENGAGE & DESTROY, DEBRECEN & BC $67.50 due 23/ 3 ?? PROHOROROVA First game in an intended series covering tactical armored combat thruout World War II using a miniatures approach to resolving combat. This game focuses on the battles of Debrecen (1945) and Prohororova (Kursk 1943). Each player's forces are chosen by point value while allowing players to select the type of forces desired making for an evenhanded contest. 2min/turn, 175m/hex, single vehicle or 8-12 men/unit, 2 maps, 3 countersheets. '19 FOR MOTHERLAND! BC $55.00 due 23/ 2 New design covering the war on the Eastern Front during World War II. Intended to be a highly playable, single (mounted) map game playable in a single sitting. Masahiro Yamazaki'91 HITLER'S LAST GAMBLE SIGNATURE [2ND] ED BC $75.00 due 23/ 2 Update of this detailed game of the Battle of the Bulge, w/ air & unit differentiation. Updated & cleaned up from earlier 3W incarnation. CSR Award for best WW2 game in 1989. 2 maps, 3 countersheets. Danny Parker'19 IMPERIAL TIDE BC $53.00 due 23/ 2 Never published. Highly strategic level game of World War I, with only four game turns each representing 1 year of time. Each turn consists of several rounds of card play that enables movement, combat, entrenchment & other actions. Based on the Pacific Tide game system. Uses a point-point map of all of Europe, and 100 counters. Key mechanics is the annual purchase of cards, each giving unique abilities; attritional combat; purchase of resource points. Rules for solitaire play included. SCHUTZTRUPPE, HEIA SAFARI 1914-18 3RD BC $49.00 due 23/ 2 Modernization of this older game of the determined German guerilla campaign against Britishs in German East Afrika, Kenya, Uganda, Congo, during World War I. Monthly turns thruout war, 1914-8. Third edition adds the game system with naval rules, campaign map, OoB & supply rules. J.Bumpus, Dennis Bishop'19 TANK LEADER, EASTERN FRONT 2ND BC $69.00 due 23/ 2 Designer edition update of the first in the Tank Leader game series. Pltn/co lvl units in btln formation in armored combat in the East. Emphasis on command & combined arms. Relatively simple yet w/ plenty of detail & tension. Multi scenario, 1 map, 2 countersheets, 72 unit cards. Good Game. John Hill'22 WAR STORM: ALONE IN THE STORM KIT BC $56.00 due 23/ 2 Kit compatible with all past & future games in the War Storm series (eg Las Barricades) of tactical combat in World War II. Allows solitaire & semi-cooperative play. 15min/turn, 200m/hex, Co level & individ AFVs, 3 countersheets. '17 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COMPASS GAMES PAPER WARS (Com_PW) (541) 756-4711 10am-9pm PST CASE GELD, AXIS INVASN NORTH n $36.00 due 23/ 2 AMERICA#101 Mag & game. Game continues the what if had the Axis won World War II, and invaded North America c.1946. Two player game suitable for solitaire. A simple mini-monster game with 2 maps but only one countersheet. 50mi/hex, corp/army level. Uses the mechanics of dual control ala Battle for Germany, with one player controlling the Japanese & east coast Americans, while the other play controls the Germans & west coast Americans. Each command can achieve a victory on its own. '22 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DECISION GAMES (DecGms) (541) 756-4711 10am-9pm PST D-DAY AT SAIPAN BC $0.00 due 23/ 2 Fifth game in the D-Day At... solitaire game series. This game covers the first 5 days of the invasion of Saipan, June 1944. 20,000 US troops landed on the first day (suffering 10% casualties) and pushed toward a key airfield & Japanese concentrations. The island later became the primary B-29 base. Player controls US forces in a no-dice combat system that rewards combined arms tactics. New rules include Japanese infiltration & Japanese tanks. 528 counters, mounted map, 55 cards. Joe Youst'22 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DECISION GAMES S&T QUARTE (DecSTQ) (541) 756-4711 10am-9pm PST STRATEGY & TACTICS QUARTERLY n 0.9 $15.00 due 23/ 5 #22GUDERIAN Quarterly magazine dedicated to a single, broad historical topic of military history. This issue is focused on the history of of Hanz Guderian and his use of the panzer blitzkrieg in the first half of World War II. '23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DECISION GAMES S&T GAMES (DecS_T) (541) 756-4711 10am-9pm PST FRENCH & INDIAN WAR BATTLES #340 n 0.9 $37.50 due 23/ 3 (Mag & game. Game of grand tactical battles of the French & Indian War of 1754-60. Each involved relatively small forces but were decisive for the control of what is now Canada. Includes 3 scenarios: Lake George (Sept 1755), Fort Oswego (Aug 1756) & Quebec (Sept 1759), each with its own map. Company/btln level, 50-150yd/hex, 10-60min/turn, 176 counters. Joseph Miranda'23 SADDAM MOVES SOUTH #339 n $37.50 due 23/ 2 (Mag & game. Game of the hypothetical situation in August 1990 had the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait continued into Saudi Arabia. The US then must lead a coalition to retake the oil fields of Arabia. Based on the Desert One War game series covering land, air & amphibious ops. 3-10days/turn, rgt/brig/div level, 224 counters, 22mi/hex. Joseph Miranda'22 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DECISION GMS WORLD AT WAR (DecWAW) (541) 756-4711 10am-9pm PST CRIMEAN CAMPAIGN 1941-42 #89 n $37.50 due 23/ 2 (Mag & game. Operational & strategic level game of the Axis offensive into the Crimean Peninsula ending with the capture of Sevastopol, Oct 1941-July 1942. Uses a telescopic timeframe. 228 counters. '23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GMT GAMES (GMT) (541) 756-4711 10am-9pm PST MBT [MAIN BATTLE TANK] 3RD BC* 4.3 $70.00 due 23/ 2 "Main Btl Tank." 2022 reprint of GMT's 2016 update of AH's detailed armored combat between Warsaw Pact & Nato forces, circa 1987. Highly detailed combat system, with each unit type has dozens of rated qualities. 5 double-sided geomorphic mounted maps, 6 countersheets, 28 tankcards. Individual AFVs & guns, half & full squad inf units, 15sec-15min/turn, 100m/hex. J.Day'22 SALERNO '43: MOUNTED MAP KIT n $12.50 due 23/ 2 Mounted map (only) for Salerno '43 game. '22 WING LEADER: ORIGINS 1936-42 KIT zl $31.50 due 23/ 2 Kit adding 29 new aircraft & 26 scenarios for minor nations from before & early in World War II (including China, Spain, Poland, Netherlands, Czechoslovakia; and includes the Malta campaign. '20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LEGION WARGAMES (Legion) (541) 756-4711 10am-9pm PST OPERATION NORDWIND 1945 BC $0.00 due 23/ 2 Simple, card-assisted game of the final German offensive in the West, Operation Nordwind from 31 Dec 1944 to 20 Jan 1945. The Germans sought to secure the Saverne Gap in the heavily forested Alsace region to allow its armored forced to attempt to cut off the US 7th Army, but failed to do so. 120 counters, 105 cards. '22 WERWOLF, INSURGENCY IN OCCUPIED GERMANY BC $68.00 due 23/ 2 Game of the horrific hypothetical situation had Nazi Germany orchestrated a prolonged guerilla resistence to allied occupation after World War II. Uses the COIN counter-insurgency game system to model the situation where there are 4 factions competing for the loyalty of the German populace: the Western Allied Occupation forces, Soviet occupation forces, a nationalist anti-nazi faction, and the nazi-led Werwolf organization. Clint Warren-Davey, Ben Fiene'22 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MULTI-MAN PUBLISHING, (MMP) (541) 756-4711 10am-9pm PST ASL:YANKS 3RD DC 119.00 due 23/ 2 2022 update of this kit which provides the complete American army OoB plus the units & scenarios from earlier Paratrooper kit. Now includes a total of 41 scenarios (16 from earlier editions of Yanks & Paratrooper, & 25 from previously published but OoP scenarios, all revised & rebalanced). Includes 6 countersheets & 8 maps (16-19, 24, 40, 41, 46). Errata from prior edition incorporated. '22 KHARKOV! BC $62.00 due 23/ 3 ?? 2nd game in the Variable Combat (VCS) game series. Covers the Soviet 1942 offensive aimed at the recapture of Kharkov that was itself pocketed by von Mainstein's backhand blow. Rgt/div level, with 4 scnearios & 2 maps. Greg Blanchett'17 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ REVOLUTION GAMES (Revolu) (541) 756-4711 10am-9pm PST STALINGRAD, ADVANCE TO THE VOLGA 1942 BC $39.00 due 23/ 3 Solitaire, area-move game of the German drive to the Volga, into Stalingrad and possibly their historical fate. Includes the Sept 1942 investment into Stalingrad and its industrial core. Victory is judged by besting the historical German achievements. Full game is 9 turns, plus there is a 5-turn Factory District scenario depicting the final German offensive in October. Quick set-up, low counter density, lots of variability game to game, and fast playing, it is suitable for repeated play and to beginners. Small mounted map, 1 countersheet. Michael Renella'23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WORTHINGTON GAMES (Worthi) (541) 756-4711 10am-9pm PST ARCHIE'S WAR, BATTLE FOR GUADALCANAL BC $55.00 due 23/ 3 1 or 2 player game of the battle for Guadalcanal in 1942. Fast playing. Mapboard is double-sided, with one side used for 2-player play and the other for solitaire. Uses a block system for hidden movement (but not step reduction). Low complexity. 60 blocks. Derek Croxton'22 30 Games Listed Here; LGms_Nu1 Report. (c) Fine Games 2023