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Silent War + IJN (Second Edition)

2023-09-05T09:40:59-04:00

Vendor: Compass Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 92.95

Designer	Brien J. Miller
Publisher	Compass Games
Players	1
Playtime	120 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	322198/silent-war-ijn-second-edition http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/322198/silent-war-ijn-second-edition/forums/63

Silent War and IJN, Deluxe 2nd Edition is an enhanced second edition of the original, award winning, game first published in 2005.

Silent War is a solitaire simulation of the United States' Navy submarine war against Imperial Japan in World War Two.
You serve as Commander of Submarines, US Pacific Fleet (ComSubPac).
Your mission is to deploy your boats with maximum effect to destroy Japanese shipping, while limiting your own submarine losses.

Featured scenarios cover actions ranging from famous short single sub patrols, through small campaigns of about a year of the war, ending with the grand campaign covering the entire Pacific War.
The game map breaks the Pacific into Operations Areas that subs move through as they patrol in search of Japanese shipping.

Special rules feature historical events that occurred during the war, ULTRA intelligence information reports, torpedo quality improvements, wolfpack capabilities, Super-Skippers, and many others.
Every US sub deployed in the Pacific is represented with its very own counter. All subs have been meticulously and accurately drawn, and shown from their side in full-color.

Bring added realism to your submarine campaign with IJN, Imperial Japanese Navy, originally released as the first expansion pack for Compass Games’ award winning Silent War. Every Japanese warship down through the large destroyer escorts and the major auxiliary cargo ships and tankers are provided in two full countersheets with 336 new playing pieces for the game and rules to integrate them seamlessly into the game. IJN, Imperial Japanese Navy also brings new rules to Silent War such as loners, crash dive, and targeting escorts, rules introduced in the follow on game, Steel Wolves.

This new edition includes the expansion, IJN that brings a greater depth of detail by providing all the major warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

This new edition features a mounted game board, consolidated rule book with all changes and improvements incorporated, a number of revised tables, additional scenarios not in the original game, and all the additional playing pieces that were added in the Steel Wolves game.

This new edition of Silent War/IJN is the definitive game on the United States Submarine Campaign against Imperial Japan.

—description from the publisher

Steel Wolves: The German Submarine Campaign Against Allied Shipping - Vol 1

2018-02-13T23:17:53-05:00

Vendor: Compass Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 132.95

Designer	Stephen C. Jackson Brien J. Miller
Publisher	Compass Games
Players	1
Playtime	3000 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Honors	2010 Charles S. Roberts Best World War 2 Era Board Wargame Nominee 2010 Charles S. Roberts Best Board Game Graphics Nominee
Additional Info	22359/steel-wolves-german-submarine-campaign-against-all http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/22359/steel-wolves-german-submarine-campaign-against-all/forums/63

(from Compass Games website:)

Steel Wolves is a solitaire simulation of the German submarine war against British and Allied shipping, the follow-on title to the award winning Silent War. Volume I covers the period from the start of the War in 1939 to the early months of 1943. You serve as BdU, Befehlshaber der U-Boote; the Supreme Commander of Uboats, Kriegsmarine. Your mission is to deploy your forces with maximum effect to destroy British and Allied shipping, while limiting your own submarine losses.

Featured scenarios cover actions ranging from famous short single sub patrols, through short campaigns, ending with the full campaign covering 1939 to 1943. The game map breaks the Atlantic, Mediterranean, South Atlantic, and Western Indian Oceans into historical Operations Areas through which subs patrol in search of shipping.

Special rules feature historical events such as the invasion of Norway and Torch; b-dienst, ULTRA, and the intelligence war; torpedo improvements, German wolfpack tactics, Super-Skippers, large vs. small U-boat philosophy, appeals to Berlin for resources, and many others. Every German sub deployed between 1939 and 1943 (as well as some what-if classes) is represented with its very own counter, each meticulously and accurately drawn and shown from their side in full-color. Players familiar with Silent War will find Steel Wolves takes the system to new depths, while those trying it for the first time will be able to quickly get into action!

Eagles of the Empire: Spanish Eagles

2017-04-21T01:43:31-04:00

Vendor: Compass Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 65.95

Designer	Stephen C. Jackson Brien J. Miller
Publisher	Compass Games
Players	2
Playtime	180 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	25037/eagles-empire-spanish-eagles http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/25037/eagles-empire-spanish-eagles/forums/63

Featuring two complete battles of the Peninsular War, Talavera and Albuera, each with an alternate set-up possibility.

Eagles of the Empire is a game system that portrays the military engagements of the Napoleonic Era. Players assume the role of the army commander of a major national or allied army of the period.

The map is divided into areas that channel unit movement as dictated by the terrain. Units represent infantry divisions, artillery batteries and cavalry regiments. Leaders play a key role, activating formations and leading them into action.

Spanish Eagles will feature the Eagles of the Empire rules set 3.0, complete OBs for both battles including what-if scenarios, hidden deployments, special British rules, command disagreements, and optional force breakdowns.

The game has been resized to accommodate 1.3 x .65 inch counters, but retains the scale and intense terrain portrayal for which the series is known.

Fornovo 1495

2016-06-08T01:58:00-04:00

Vendor: Compass Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 72.95

Designer	Brien J. Miller
Publisher	Compass Games
Players	1-2
Playtime	180 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	123689/fornovo-1495 https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/123689/fornovo-1495/forums/63

Fornovo 1495 is the first title in the new Order of Arms game system. Order of Arms dynamically portrays battles from the Medieval and Renaissance Periods, from Hastings in 1066 to Pavia in 1525, a period that featured the mounted armored knight. Players assume the role of the army commander of a major armed force of the period, attempting to fulfill varying victory conditions through the use of the arms of the period including men-at-arms, both mounted and dismounted, infantry including archers, and when available, early firearms.

Order of Arms is descended from and related to the 3rd edition of the grand tactical Napoleonic game Eagles of the Empire. Players familiar with that game will recognize many features of that system present here in Order of Arms. However (and this is a BIG however), there are significant differences between Eagles of the Empire and Order of Arms; most notably the scale at which Order of Arms portrays its combat, and the resulting procedures that emphasize unit to unit fighting. Moreover, where the queen of the battlefield in Napoleon's time was the linear Infantry formation, in Order of Arms, the dominant unit up until near the very end of the period covered, was the Mounted Men-at-Arms (MMA); the armored knight; the result of which is that the long playing piece in Order of Arms is the MMA unit.

Order of Arms titles will be published by Compass Games; Fornovo should be out by late 2012.