Strategy & Tactics Magazine has been around a loooong time. And just to show you how far back it goes, take a look at the price of the issue in the top right corner of the photo below. Yep. Six clams. Nord Kapp is the game included with the Fall …
The first scenario from The Hunt for Red October pits two NATO submarines against three Soviet subs. In this tense battle beneath the waves during the early days of World War III, which side will come out ahead? The objective is to sink as many enemy subs as possible and …
In 1988, TSR published “The Hunt for Red October”, a boardgame based on Tom Clancy’s 1984 debut novel of the same name. The Hunt for Red October boardgame from TSR (1988) The book was a tense thriller set in the late Cold War period. It focused on a Soviet submarine …
Red Storm Rising is a novel about a hypothetical WW3 fought between NATO and the Warsaw Pact during the mid- to late 1980s. Written by Tom Clancy and co-authored by Larry Bond, it was published by Putnam in 1986 and has ever since lived on as one of the best …
Scenario 2 from Fire Team is a lot more interesting than the first scenario in the game. “Reconnaissance on the Nuremberg Highway” features an engagement between American scouts from 2ACR and the lead elements of Soviet 11th Guards Tank Division. The Soviet player secretly chooses one of three available force …
Well, here’s another lopsided end game shot from a different game! I set up and played Fire Team this weekend after getting a sudden craving for some good ol’ squad-based tactical action. It wasn’t even close. The Soviets started off on the road north of Ehrenberg with three platoons facing …
I originally submitted this for publication in Line of Fire 16 but stuff kind of happened and here we are. I tried to make a scenario where the Soviets invade West Germany after the end of the Vietnam War, well before the US starts making those wonderful and deadly M-1 …
Slowly but surely, I got halfway through a recent game of GDW’s The Third World War: Battle for Germany to see things bog down into a stalemate by the beginning of turn 5. NATO’s defense was sub-par due to its lack of depth and inability to cut through the Soviet breakthrough in …
Playing “Third World War: Battle for Germany” again these days after a break from it. I’m really starting to enjoy how simple but elegant the system works and takes into account the different capabilities of both sides. To further explain, the Warsaw Pact gets two movement and combat phases, both …
Continuing through with my video playthroughs, I’ve set up and played a game of “Heroes of the Gap”. In this scenario, “Air Assault”, the Americans are caught by surprise as the Soviets send in airborne helicopter assault troops in a pre-dawn raid to capture three vital objectives in Eisenbach. The …
