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An Operational and Tactical level game of the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese Naval War that ended decisively at the Battle of Tsushima.
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Japan entered the modern age in 1868, with a new young emperor determined to make his island nation a world power. After decades of steady progress, Japan began its own practice of colonialism, defeating China in 1894. As the Japanese...An Operational and Tactical level game of the 1898 Spanish American Naval War that began when the United States erroneously blamed Spain for the destruction of the U.S.S. Maine and ended with the twin battles of Manilla Bay and Santiago where the remnants of Spanish naval power was destroyed.
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American expansionist desires since at least the 1850s. By the end of the century, the American 8220;Yellow Press” had made attempts by Cuban revolutionaries to overthrow Spanish colonial rule a leading news story. American public opinion demanded that Spain grant...A simulation of the 1297 campaigns of William Wallace against the English. Few believed the Scottish Clansmen could resist the might of the English state. Yet Wallace and his men refused to yield to the despotic British King.
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Wallace took refuge in the castle of Dundee began again assembling an army. When the Earl of Warwick reinforced his pursuers, Sirs Percy Clifford, it looked bleak. Only one thing a good Scotsman can do. Attack! Few believed the Scottish...The Battle of Suomussalmi in the winter of 1939 - 1940, pitted a single, hastily raised, and poorly equipped Finnish division against two full strength Soviet Divisions, armed with more than 90 tanks.
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Finns stood much of a chance in this 8220;Winter War 8221; A small army of citizen-soldiers would face the world’s largest army. The Red Army of Workers and Peasants numbered several million strong, hardened by combat experience gained in Spain...Cannibal is a game of the 1942 - 1943 Arakan Campaign waged by the British against an entrenched and jungle capable Japanese Force.
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Few came before few have come since, so fierce are the jungles rivers of Burma. But in 1942, it was the only place where the British could hope to check the rising tide of Imperial Japanese power. Refight one of...An Operational and Tactical level game of the hypothetical naval war that both the U.S. and German planners foresaw in the event of a German victory in World War I.
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Each entered the imperialist race very late and had to content itself with the leftovers which the British and French had passed by. When the United States seized Spain’s colonial empire in 1898, German jealousy raged hotly. Some German business...An Operational and Tactical level game of the hypothetical naval war that planners on both sides of the Pacific envisioned happening between 1920 and 1936.
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American presence in the formerly Spanish Philippines as a threat to its ambitions, and many Japanese took the overthrow of the Queen of Hawai’i as a direct affront. Simple racism also pushed the conflict. When the Americans brokered a peace...The US Sixth Army crashes ashore only to be met by the Japanese 35th Army including paratroopers and tanks.
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In the early morning hours Japanese soldiers of the 16th Infantry Division awoke to a rain of shells courtesy of the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet. Off the eastern coast of Leyte, in the central Philippines, were over 700 Allied ships...Panzer Grenadier is a tactical game of Platoon level comat in World War II. The leading game in this series pits the German Army against the Russians on the Eastern Front.
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Avalanche Press Grenadier series launched in the year 2000 AD, with the original edition of Eastern Front. It has become the most popular game series produced by Avalanche Press, with close to a dozen boxed games published or in preparation, several add-on...