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Squad- and vehicle-level forces fight the opening battles of Operation Barbarossa on geomorphic maps. The third edition uses an action-point system, firefight scenarios and revi…
An alien arrival divides humanity among rival ideological factions. Players influence nations, direct research and industry, expand into space and design fleets for tactical com…
Federal agents and other specialists investigate unnatural threats while secrecy, violence and exposure steadily damage their sanity and personal lives. This player-facing core …
Players command brigades of infantry and cavalry with massed artillery in large historical or fictional Napoleonic battles. The Scharnhorst campaign system creates the battlefie…
A task force of massive flying warships fights for survival across a hostile future world. Real-time ship combat combines with fleet design, reconnaissance, logistics, resource …
A solitaire campaign game puts the player in command of United States close-air-support pilots and aircraft. Squadron planning, pilot stress, weapons allocation and tactical mis…
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1707 · November 2
Four British naval vessels run aground on the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. In response, the first Longitude Act is enacted in 1714.
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2 December 1805 · Moravia
Napoleon’s most celebrated victory was not magic. It was a calculated risk, an Allied command failure, and a violent contest whose outcome remained uncertain longer than the legend suggests.
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