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Drive on Stalingrad Blue and Gray I & II Deluxe Dr. Livingstone, I Presume
Drive on Stalingrad Blue and Gray I & II Deluxe Dr. Livingstone, I Presume
Drive on Stalingrad (artwork stage). We are updating the maps and counters graphic artwork. Two mounted game boards, two counter sheets, full color play aid cards, and a 32-page full color rules booklet. Est. Retail: $100 (Est. Pledge $75) Blue and Gray I & II Deluxe (artwork stage). These two quadri-games were selected in this year’s SPI survey and will be published in one big box. We are updating the maps and counters. Four double-sided, folio-sized, game boards, three counter sheets, full color play aid cards, and a 32-page full color rules booklet to include selected variants and optional rules (with corresponding counters). Est. Retail: $120 (Est. Pledge $90) Dr. Livingstone, I Presume is a board game of the exploration of Africa in the 19th century. 1-4 players. Multiple scenarios and solitaire playability. Each player controls a group of historical 19th century explorers as they prepare and carry out expeditions into the uncharted interior of Africa. Mounted game board, 50 terrain tiles, 100 discovery discs, 100 explorer and event cards, 250 cubes and discs, expedition markers, 32-page rules booklet, and 32-page background booklet, plus player displays and reference charts and tables. Est. Retail $120 (est. pledge $90).
Seven Days to the Rhine In-Country: The Vietnam War Carrier Battlegroup Solitaire
Seven Days to the Rhine In-Country: The Vietnam War Carrier Battlegroup Solitaire
Seven Days to the Rhine will be updated with additional rules for multi-map scenarios. Five maps, five counter sheets, full color play aid cards, and a 32-page full color rules booklet. Est. Retail: $140 (Est. Pledge $105). In-Country: The Vietnam War will be updated thoroughly with new map and counters. Two maps, two counter sheets, full color play aid cards, and a 32-page full color rules booklet. Est. Retail: $79 (Est. Pledge $60).
Carrier Battlegroup Solitaire will be updated thoroughly with new map and counters. One mounted map board, one counter sheet, full color play aid cards, and a 16-page full color rules booklet. Est. Retail: $69 (Est. Pledge $51).
Mare Nostrum Coral Sea Solitaire Campaigns of 1777
Mare Nostrum Coral Sea Solitaire Campaigns of 1777
Mare Nostrum will be updated thoroughly with new map and counters. Two maps, two counter sheets, full color play aid cards, and a 32-page full color rules booklet. Est. Retail: $79 (Est. Pledge $60).
Coral Sea Solitaire will be updated thoroughly with new map and counters. One mounted map board, one counter sheet, full color play aid cards, and a 16-page full color rules booklet. Est. Retail: $69 (Est. Pledge $51).
Campaigns of 1777 will be updated with the variants and optional rules. One mounted map board, one counter sheet, full color play aid cards, and a 16-page full color rules booklet. Est. Retail: $69 (Est. Pledge $51).
Sealion Deluxe Edition Battles in the East #4: Mius River and Vitebsk Battles in the East #3: Operation Sonnewende/Pomerania and Drive to the Sea
Sealion Deluxe Edition Battles in the East #4: Mius River and Vitebsk Battles in the East #3: Operation Sonnewende/Pomerania and Drive to the Sea
Sealion Deluxe Edition. (development update stage). This game was selected in this year’s Deluxe survey. We are updating the map and counters. One mounted map board, one and one half counter sheets (264 × 5/8 inch counters), full color play aid cards, and a 16-page full color rules booklet. Est. Retail: $80 (Est. Pledge $60). Battles in the East #4: Mius River and Vitebsk. (design stage). Volume 4 features two battles from 1943. Components include a double-sided full-size mounted game board, 440 large counters, a 16-page series rules booklet, and scenario/exclusive rules sheets and displays, plus full-color set-up charts for each scenario, series charts and tables for each player. Est. retail price: $100 (est. pledge price: $75). Battles in the East #3: Operation Sonnewende and Drive to the Sea (development stage). Volume 3 features two battles from 1945. Includes untried late war Axis units and Russian Rocket divisions. Components include a double-sided full-size mounted game board, 440 large counters, a 16-page series rules booklet, and scenario/exclusive rules sheets and displays, plus full-color set-up charts for each scenario, series charts and tables for each player. Est. retail price: $100 (est. pledge price: $75).
Battles in the East #2: Uman Pocket and Guderian’s Final Blitzkrieg, 1941 Battles in the East #1: Sandomierz Offensive and Bagration Stopped, 1944 Napoleon 20
Battles in the East #2: Uman Pocket and Guderian’s Final Blitzkrieg, 1941 Battles in the East #1: Sandomierz Offensive and Bagration Stopped, 1944 Napoleon 20
Battles in the East #2: Uman Pocket and Guderian’s Final Blitzkrieg, 1941. (final proof stage). These two battles were fought during Barbarossa. Uman is a lesser-known battle fought just south of the more famous Kiev Encirclement. Guderian’s Final Blitzkrieg is the final lunge to encircle Moscow from the south.
Battles in the East #1: Sandomierz Offensive and Bagration Stopped, 1944. (final proof stage). These two battles were fought along the Vistula River as the Soviets sought to gain bridgeheads. First Ukrainian Front, having just captured Lvov (Lemberg) continued a series of offensives with the Sandomierz Offensive that gained a massive bridgehead. The Germans counterattacked with two Panzerkorps. This battle included a firefight between German King Tigers and the Soviet’s largest tanks, the JS-2. The other battle was fought near Warsaw where the Soviets gained small footholds across the Vistula and drove north towards the Narew River to cut off German forces and cut rail lines.
Napoleon 20. We have worked out an agreement to acquire this game line with over 50 Napoleonic games, about half of which were published by Victory Point Games (the other half are in various stages of design and development). We intend to reorganize the series by region and time period and publish in a deluxe boxed series. Each volume in this series will generally include four battles. Components will include two double-sided (17” x 22”) mounted game boards, three counter sheets (two for one-inch square combat units and one sheet for markers), a 55-card deck, a 16-page series rules booklet, a 16-page scenario and exclusive rules booklet, and a 16-page historical background, plus charts, tables, and displays. Est. Retail $120 (Est. Pledge $90).
Middle East Struggle Axis Empires Ultimate Edition Over the Rhine: Market Garden
Middle East Struggle Axis Empires Ultimate Edition Over the Rhine: Market Garden
Middle East Struggle is a card-driven board game of geopolitical conflict simulation of actual events. Players represent the three regional powers in the contemporary Middle East: Iran, Israel, and Saudi Arabia. They compete for influence on the region’s map while maintaining internal cohesion and securing support from world superpowers. Card play covers all the tools available: intrigue, covert operations, extreme ideologies, oil, propaganda, technology, espionage, and proxy wars. Four scenarios, one for each decade since the Iranian Revolution, plus a Campaign Game covering 1979 to present are included, plus a tutorial game of the events of 1978-1979 to assist new players in learning game mechanics. The player who scores the most victory points wins. Est. Retail $120 (est. pledge $90).

Axis Empires Ultimate Edition. (final proof stage) is a full, complete new edition with four new maps, 8 ½ sheets of new, thicker counters, 500 new poker-sized cards, and five new full-color rules booklets with new optional rules and scenarios. Now you can play out that East vs. West “Separate Peace” scenarios and spring unexpected surprises on your opponents with “Fortunes of War” cards!
Market Garden (design stage). Montgomery’s plan to breakthrough to the Rhine. US, British, and Polish airborne forces attempt to seize key bridges while British 30th Corps attempts to punch through to Arnhem. Smaller scenarios would cover portions of the campaign. Four maps, eight counter sheets. Est. Retail $200 (Est. Pledge $150).
Sicily War in Europe First World War
Sicily War in Europe First World War
Sicily (1 Jul 43-31 Aug 43). Patton’s Third Army and Montgomery’s 8th Army battle some of the best German units for control of Sicily. Four maps, eight counter sheets. Est. Retail $200 (Est. Pledge $150) War in Europe. A thorough update of the ground system to better simulate the blitzkrieg in the west, operations on the Eastern front, and the unique situation in North Africa along with enhancements to the air and naval systems to improve simulation value. Maps will be updated specifically for the WWII conflict. Nine maps plus several half- and full-sized displays, 16 counter sheets, two 48-page rules booklets. Est. Retail $300 (Est. Pledge $225). First World War. An update of the SPI classic. The new design will include a new map at the same scale but specifically created for this WWI conflict. Counters will be mostly division-level with stacking generally one corps per hex. Air and naval units will be included. Est. Retail $300 (Est. Pledge $225).
Tunisia Tobruk Alamein
Tunisia Tobruk Alamein
Tunisia. The final battles for North Africa from the initial lunge for Tunis to the final surrender. Four maps, eight counter sheets. Est. Retail $200 (Est. Pledge $150). Tobruk. (design stage). From Battle Axe to Gazala. The struggle for this port was key to the African campaign. All of the historical battles are included. Four maps, eight counter sheets. Est. Retail $200 (Est. Pledge $150).

 		Alamein (1 Jul- 11 Nov 42). Rommel’s DAK is checked and then defeated in a series of battles. But the Axis forces might have broken through and continued on to Alexandria, Cairo, and the Suez Canal. Four maps, eight counter sheets. Est. Retail $200 (Est. Pledge $150).
Stalingrad Red Dragon Rising Deluxe Edition North African Campaign
Stalingrad Red Dragon Rising Deluxe Edition North African Campaign
Stalingrad (solitaire). This would be the city fight with battalions and specialist companies with scenarios for the initial rush, the fight for Tractor Factory, and a campaign scenario. Game system to have similarities to D-Day series. Three mounted map boards, six counter sheets (1,056 counters), 165 cards, full color play aid cards, and a 48-page full color rules booklet plus 32-page booklet with scenarios and historical background. Est. Retail: $200 (Est. Pledge $150).

Red Dragon Rising Deluxe Edition. This game was selected in last year’s Deluxe survey. We are updating the map and counters to create scenarios for a future conflict focusing on a Taiwan invasion scenario. Two maps, two counter sheets (176 × 5/8 inch counters), full color play aid cards, and a 32-page full color rules booklet. Est. Retail: $99 (Est. Pledge $75).

North African Campaign (design stage). There is no paperwork or data tracking in this update of the SPI classic. Streamlined but realistic procedures allow the realistic portrayal of unit assignment and supply expenditure. Command and control cards drive the action, enabling a player to tailor his emphasis on building units, gathering intelligence, conducting operations, or building up supplies. The map has undergone a graphic update. The air war is updated and enhanced and the OOB presents the latest research with all units at a battalion level (armor in companies and air units in squadrons). Five maps, eight counter sheets, 100 cards, illustrated rules booklet, displays, charts and tables. Est. Retail $200 (Est. Pledge $150)