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10 Sept 2014
Planetfall Release
Spartan Games is hugely excited to announce the much-anticipated launch of Planetfall – a fast-paced, action packed game of massed 10mm armoured and infantry conflict set in the Firestorm Armada galaxy.
Devastating tanks, sleek aerial units, crushing artillery, orbital drop-ships and elite infantry forces fight over objectives, each side seeking to achieve their key objectives at the expense of the other. Planetfall uses an ugo-igo system, with an activation mechanism based around Helixes – the building blocks of every force. Games are tactical, combat is ferocious, and the gameplay engine is built around Spartan Games’ established Exploding D6 mechanic, making it fast and intuitive.
We’re launching Planetfall with 5 products to start with:
(1) Battle For Proteus Prime: is a 2-player battle box that contains over 34 stunningly detailed gaming models, full colour rulebook, campaign book, scenery, and so much more. The plot for this Boxed Set sparks off a major offensive in the Storm Zone, and in time will itself fuel an exciting Firestorm Armada 2-player boxed set.
On the surface of Proteus Prime, Aquan Prime and Directorate forces have turned this desolate planet into a raging warzone. There is a deadly secret on this world, and the Directorate want it all costs, and the Aquans want it kept buried. Drawn into the conflict are two Alliance Races, the Terquai and Works Raptor.
Box contents include:
Aquan Core Helix
1 x ‘Sedna’ Heavy Skimmer Tank
3 x ‘Lamana’ Medium Skimmer Tanks
4 x ‘Imzani’ Light Recon Skimmer Tanks
1 x ‘Sirsir’ Medium Skimmer Designator Tank
2 x ‘Votari’ Crystal Nodes
2 x ‘Votari’ Anti-Air Batteries
5 x Bases of Aquan ‘Khitari’ Infantry (mix of scenic bases with 3-4 minis on each)
Directorate Core Helix
1 x ‘Desolator’ Heavy Battle Crawler Tank
3 x ‘Retaliator’ Medium Battle Crawlers Tanks
5 x ‘Informer’ Light Recon Buggies
2 x ‘Trojan’ Cyber Warfare Tanks
1 x ‘Intruder’ Combat Personnel Carrier
5 x Bases of Directorate ‘Patriot’ Shock Infantry (mix of scenic bases with 3-4 minis on each)
Plus:
1 x Full Colour Rulebook
2 x Planetfall TAC Decks
1 x 64-page ‘The Battle of Proteus Prime’ A5 Campaign Book (including Statistics for all Aquan and Directorate Forces in the set)
2 x Medium Bunkers
3 x Small Buildings
1 x A5 pre-printed Crashed Shuttle Sheet
A5 Token and Template Sheets
Dice
The ideal way to plunge yourself into Planetfall ground warfare in the Firestorm Galaxy!
Click here (Link no longer working) to get your hands on Planetfall’s Battle For Proteus Prime!
(2) and (3) TWO Allied Expansion Helixes: These expansion Helixes (up to TWO per core force can be added) instantly allow players to expand the Directorate and Aquan forces found in the Proteus Prime Battle Box.
Terquai Allied Recon Helix
The Terquai are close allies of the Aquan Prime, and this Recon Helix is intended to aid Aquan forces in harassing their opponents. The Iopphon Heavy Gunship lays down devastating fire, while itself soaking up enemy attacks, and can be used to deploy Temporal Portals onto a battlefield. The flexibility of this Helix though comes from the two cadres of Nabis Heavy Infantry Drones which can use the Temporal Portals to be transported instantaneously into battle zones.
1 x Iophon Heavy Gunship
10 x Bases of Nabis Heavy Infantry (2 Full Cadres)
2 x Temporal Portals (60mm x 40mm scenic base)
To purchase your Terquai Allied Recon Helix click here Link no longer working
Works Raptor Allied Recon Helix
Works Raptor ground forces are, like their space fleets, all about stabbing the enemy in the heart. The GX-74 ‘Witch‘ Heavy Interceptors are sleek, fast and deadly, and a match for any aerial foe. The LR-6 Recon Tanks are all about capturing strategic objectives, and then having the fighting prowess to hold on to it. Also included in the Helix is a crashed Works Raptor Escape Pod which can be used as part of a narrative driven scenario, or simply as a Strategic Objective.
3 x GX-74 ‘Witch’ Heavy Interceptor
5 x LR-6 Recon Tank
1 x Crashed Escape Pod (60mm x 40mm scenic base)
(4) Full colour rulebook: Building your army with Helixes gives an enormous flexibility to Commanders as they assemble their Planetfall forces, and is designed to let Commanders mobilise their forces onto the tabletop quickly. Key features of the rules include:
• Flexible Army Lists
• TAC Card Deck used to deliver thematic gameplay
• Established Spartan Games dice mechanics
• Intuitive and Easy to Master
• Rules for capturing and holding Battlefield Objectives
And much more…
To buy your Planetfall Rulebook click here. Link no longer working
(5) Pre-printed Terrain Box: made from acrylic and pre-printed laminated card for the ideal balance of quality and weight, these can drop straight into a battlefield. You get 11 terrain pieces – the largest is 193mm long!
Click here (Link no longer working) to grab your pre-printed terrain!
BUT WAIT….THERE’S MORE!
TWO-PLAYER BOX SPECIAL OFFER
For the first month following launch the Battle for Proteus Prime boxed set will come with not one but TWO fantastic free gifts:
Gift 1: A superb multi-part, highly detailed resin model of a Terquai Crashed Shuttle. See the attached picture to see how cool this model is!
Note: The Terquai Shuttle will fit together, and inside the Battle for Proteus Prime Boxed Set is a pre-printed A5 image gamers can use as a battlefield objective. The resin model is designed to sit on top of this, or can be spread about a battlefield.
Gift 2: We loved the cover art so much we commissioned the artist to create two more Battle Scenes from Proteus Prime: The same scene, but from the two Commanders’ separate viewpoints – one Aquan, one Directorate. Delivered as high quality prints that gamers can frame.
Note: All models you see digitally painted in the Planetfall release have been done using the actual 3D files used to create the models you will be able to buy. All models come unpainted and unassembled.
AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW! Link no longer working
Spartan Games
26 Aug 2014
Operation Barbarossa: The Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation, Vol. IIB
Volume IIB completes the Wehrmacht, and the German mobilisation and war-economy, in 1941.
It includes the most detailed Orders of Battle ever published on the German Army (Heer), Luftwaffe and Waffen Ss (across the whole Reich) in June-July 1941.
Even the smallest and most obscure ground and air units are included, while the Luftwaffe Oobs include details on aircraft types and strengths.
Also scrutinised are: the personnel and equipment assigned to combat-units in each army or reserve-force in all areas of the Reich; the ground and air unit reinforcements as well as those newly mobilised; the military personnel and equipment that became available in the Reich during 1941; the Replacement Army; the mobilisation process and resources used; the available replacements and those sent east; the logistical supply of the Wehrmacht (the varying Supply Distribution Efficiency); the Kriegsmarine forces in the east; and the Wehrmacht killed, wounded, missing/Pow, unfit and recuperated casualties.
3 Jun 2014
ACW Gamer: The Ezine Issue 4, 2014
ACW Gamer: The Ezine Issue 4:
An electronic magazine for fighting the American Civil War on your table top! Miniatures, Scenarios, Reviews and more!
Review: Across A Deadly Field: Regimental Rules For Large Civil War Battles
Scenario: A Bad Afternoon along the Orange Turnpike: The Battle for Saunders Field, The Wilderness
Hobby: 15mm Gettysburg Dioramas
Review: American Uncivil War: Action and Adventure in the American Uncivil War
Review: American Uncivil War Miniatures Range
Workbench: Sound the Charge! Painting 6mm Cavalry
Workbench: Uncase the Colors! Making Your Own ACW Flags
Hobby: The Zouaves at Saunder’s Field: A look at the uniforms of Ayre’s Zouave Brigade
Hobby: Command Combat: Civil War
ACW Gamer
15 Apr 2014
Zhitomir-Berdichev. German Operations West of Kiev 24 December 1943-31 January 1944 Volume 2
This is the second volume of a two-volume set which together comprise a detailed and well-researched history of the important but neglected operation that was to be the beginning of the liberation of western Ukraine. On 24 December 1943, the Red Army launched the first of a series of winter offensives against the German Army Group South under von Manstein, the overall object of which was to liberate western Ukraine from occupation. This first offensive is known to Soviet historians as the Zhitomir-Berdichev operation. Based on the unpublished records of the German 1st and 4th Panzer Armies, and supplemented by comprehensive mapping and order of battle data, this book provides an authoritative, detailed, day-by-day account of German operations as they developed in response to the Soviet offensive. It also provides a vivid insight into the planning and decision-making of the German Army field commands in conducting not only a mobile defence, but also a series of counterattacks which, in the final analysis, could do little more than provide a temporary respite in the face of the growing strength and skill of the Red Army. Following on from where Volume 1 left off, this second volume describes events from 10 to 31 January 1944 and details the series of counterattacks undertaken by the Germans as they tried desperately to stabilise a situation that had already slipped beyond their control. By the time the last of these counterattacks was drawing to a close, the conditions had already been established for the next major Soviet offensive in the region: the Korsun' pocket. In tracing the course of these counterattacks, the book describes how the German operational situation developed during the period immediately leading up to the Soviet Korsun' offensive. Volume 2 includes the appendices which provide order of battle detail for both sides, and comes with a separately bound book of 253 detailed daily situation maps in colour to allow the reader to follow operations as they developed day by day. The first volume, already available from Helion, described operations until 9 January 1944, during which period the German forces were pushed back forcibly under the weight of the Soviet offensive. Together this two-volume set comprises a groundbreaking survey which is likely to set a new standard for future studies of operational combat on the Eastern Front.
Zhitomir-Berdichev: German Operations West of Kiev 24 December 1943 31 January 1944: Volume 1
2 Apr 2014
ACW Gamer: The Ezine Issue 3, April 2014
ACW Gamer: The Ezine Issue 3:
An electronic magazine for fighting the American Civil War on your table top! Miniatures, Scenarios, Reviews and more!
ACWG goes to Cold Wars
Terrain: The Troup Hurt House
Battle Report: Return to Castleman’s Ferry, Part 2
Building a Civil War Observation Balloon
Painting 18mm Union Infantry
Making a Civil War Battlefield
Strategic Naval Gaming in Rebel Raiders on the High Seas
ACW Gamer
20 Mar 2014
Panzer Korps Rules
Panzer Korps 10th Anniversary Edition allows players to recreate the World at War in Miniature from 1935 to 1945 at the Battalion level. Players command Divisions and Brigades.
Features HRG’s Theater based Terrain Generation System.
Unique National Characteristics seamlessly managed by the rules.
Includes Advanced Rules for extra detail.
Integrates Air Power seamlessly and is a vital part of the strategy.
Use Military Police, Medical personnel, Ground Crews, Tank Recovery, Cavalry & other various support Companies as they were intended!
More rules enhancements and clarifications than the 1st Edition
No re-basing needed to play & works with most scales!
Can be used with Regiment and Division sized board games to resolve key battles.
Well supported with over twenty handbooks including Campaign Master System, Scenarios, & Army Books!
Comprehensive Vehicle and Aircraft National ratings and advanced rules.
Games can be concluded within 3 to 4 hours and have a clear decision.
Panzer Korps is a complete Divisional Wargame solution for recreating WWII in miniature. Command Corps, Divisions and Brigades across the globe with Panzer Korps' terrain generation system and refight scenarios or create your own using a point system. Can be used with any scale from 1/600 to 25mm, Panzer Korps does not require rebasing to play and can easily use popular basing systems.
Panzer Korps Supplements
Rommel's Way: Panzer Korps Battle Scenarios Volume IX
Rommel's Way: Panzer Korps Battle Scenarios Volume IX is the ninth in a series of Scenario books designed specifically for the Panzer Korps WWII Rules System. Featuring many of his own letters and opinions, Rommel's Way expands the scenario book library by offering the mind of the man behind the North African Campaign. 15 ready to play Scenarios featuring the African Front with maps & Force Groups.
Scenarios Included:
Operation Scipio '43
Sidi Bou Zid '43
Tug Argan Pass '40
Tel El Eisa '42
Bloody Keren '41
Totensonntag '41
Bedda Fomm '41
Agordhat '41
Bir El Gubi '41
Bir Hakeim '44
Nebeiwa '41
Operation Battleaxe '41
Operation Brevity '41
Abyssinian Campaign '35
Kassarine Pass '43
Panzer Korps Campaigns
A Complete Campaign system for Panzer Korps that allows players to fight a series of battles without a map. Comes complete with campaign rules and 20 campaign scenarios for 1 up to 10 players. Can be used with other Divisional WWII systems.
Red Disciples Soviet Handbook 2nd Edition
2nd Edition: The complete Generals handbook for Soviet forces in World War II for use with Panzer Korps divisional rules system. Covers all of the Soviet forces from 1939 through 1945 including artillery, vehicles, aircraft, and organisation of forces.
Con Tutto Il Cuore Italian Handbook
The complete Generals handbook for Italian forces in World War II for use with Panzer Korps divisional rules system. Covers all of the Italian forces from 1939 through 1945 including artillery, vehicles, aircraft, and organisation of forces in the Spanish Civil War, Abyssinia, North Africa, Western Europe and in Russia.
Con Tutto Il Cuore Italian Handbook
The complete Generals handbook for Italian forces in World War II for use with Panzer Korps divisional rules system. Covers all of the Italian forces from 1939 through 1945 including artillery, vehicles, aircraft, and organisation of forces in the Spanish Civil War, Abyssinia, North Africa, Western Europe and in Russia.
L’drapeau Et L’croix French Handbook
The complete Generals handbook for French forces in World War II for use with Panzer Korps divisional rules system. Covers all of the French forces from 1939 through 1945 including Vichy, and all theaters. Includes artillery, vehicles, aircraft, and organisation of forces.
Hammer Of Freedom American Handbook
The complete Generals handbook for America forces in World War II for use with Panzer Korps divisional rules system. Covers all of the American forces from 1939 through 1945 including, Marines, artillery, vehicles, aircraft, and organisation of forces.
To The Last Huszar: Hungarian Handbook A
The complete Generals handbook for Hungarian forces in World War II for use with Panzer Korps divisional rules system. Covers all of the Hungarian forces from 1939 through 1945 including artillery, vehicles, aircraft, and organisation of forces.
Blitzkrieg: The Storm Turns West 1940: Minor Allies
The Minor Allied Generals Handbook for the Blitzkrieg of 1940 for Panzer Korps. Covers the nations of Luxembourg, Holland, Denmark, Norway and Belgium. Includes vehicles, artillery, small arms, and all aircraft used by the forces and how to use them with Panzer Korps.
Eisenkreuz: Wehrmacht General’s Handbook
Eisenkreuz is the Wehrmacht General’s Handbook for Panzer Korps. It covers all the Wehrmacht & HEER formations from creation to the end of the war at the divisional level. From brigades to foreign contingents, Eisenkreuz covers all the vehicles, weapons and organisations you will need to play. Includes most major vehicles and organisations Brigades, Divisions and Special Formations Covers the various specialised battalion formations Details organisation at the Divisional Level Extensive tactics and techniques Glossary, Panzer Korps statistics and more! New ARKO, ARFU, and Detailed rules additions Includes Marine, Luftwaffe, and Construction contingents
Oberstgruppenführer: Waffen Ss Handbook
The complete Panzer Korps source book for the Waffen SS during WWII. Covers all elements of the Waffen SS for the Panzer Korps gaming system including tactics, vehicles, small arms, strategy, and organisation for all the formations and fronts. Comprehensive OOB's for all Divisions.
Legiunea Romana: Romanian Handbook
Legiunea Romana: Romanian Generals Handbook covers all the elements for using Romanians in Panzer Korps. Covering aircraft, artillery, vehicles and small arms, the book also has extensive OOB's for the various periods of the war including in Soviet Service. Covers 1939 through 1945.
Banderas Adelante: Spanish Civil War Handbooks
The complete Panzer Korps Generals Handbook on the Spanish Civil War. Covers all the various belligerents and their weapons. Includes factions, campaigns, leaders and ideology
Udarna Legija: Croatian & Slovakian General’s Handbook
The complete Croatian and Slovakian Generals Handbook for Panzer Korps. Covers all the major formations and organisations for both nations as AXIS allies during WWII for use with Panzer Korps Divisional level rules. Includes Army, Navy and Air forces organised for Panzer Korps. Covers most vehicles, aircraft and weaponry.
When Britain Feared None: British General’s Handbook
When Britain Feared None covers the organisational structures of the British Army from 1940 to 1945 at the Divisional level. Covering most combat organisational configurations, When Britain Feared None allows gamers and historians to get a handle of how the British Army structured themselves to win the war with Territorial, Commonwealth and Dominion forces.
Covers Airborne, Artillery, Armoured formations & more!
Breaks down the command structures into their respective parts
Aides in understanding the rapidly changing organisations
Vehicle and Aircraft lists
Combat Analysis of actual historical performance
Period strategies and commentary from the front
An overview of all the Major nations that contributed to the war effort!
Complete Scenarios included
Extensive Orders of Battle for certain Theaters to aide in scenario creation
Panzer Korps Scenario Book One
The first in a series of scenarios for Panzer Korps Divisional warfare game from HR GAMES. Includes 13 complete scenarios such as Bir El Gubi, Battle of Vitebsk, Battle for Ratzymin 1944 among others.
Panzer Korps Scenario Book Two
The second scenario book designed specifically for Panzer Korps WWII Divisional level rules. Some battles Included are Bir Hakiem, Invasion of Malta, Battle for the Zeta Line, among others. Also included is the Complete Invasion of France of the XVth Panzer Korps. 12 Scenarios
Panzer Korps Scenario Book Three
Forsaken Warriors is the third Volume in the Panzer Korps scenarios series. Complete OB's, scenarios, and maps for the following battles: GELA 43, Peel 44, Flavion 40, Turda 44, Meiktila 45, Huertgen Forest 44, Panzer's on the Son 44, Mechili 41, Bulge 44
Panzer Korps Scenario Book Four
The fourth Scenario book for Panzer Korps. Contains 10 scenarios with an emphasis on the Soviets. 120 Pages.
Panzer Korps Scenario Book Five
Legacy of Defiance: Panzer Korps Scenario V is a collection of 10 scenarios featuring British, Commonwealth or Dominion forces during WWII either in North Africa, Western Europe or in the Far East.
Panzer Korps Scenario Book Six
Panzer Korps Scenarios Volume VI is the Sixth in a series of Scenario books designed specifically for the Panzer Korps WWII Rules System. 10 ready to play Scenarios featuring American forces with maps & Force Groups .
France Battle for Bayon ‘44
France Battle for Vire ‘44
France Atlantic Wall Campaign ‘44
Germany Breaking the Siegfried Line ‘44
Germany Battle for The Huertgen Forest ‘44
North Africa Sidi Bou Zid ‘43
Pacific Pelelieu ‘44
North Africa Kasserine Pass ‘43
Pacific Henderson Field ‘42
Sicily Counterstroke at Gela ‘43
Germany A Desperate Gamble ‘44
Panzer Korps Scenario Book Seven
Panzer Korps Scenario Volume VII is the Seventh in a series of Scenario books designed specifically for the Panzer Korps WWII Rules System. 17 ready to play Scenarios featuring Japanese forces with maps & Force Groups .
Across The Halha ‘39
Assault on Manila ‘45
Siege of Hong Kong ‘41
Battle of Senshou ‘38
Pelelieu ‘44
Battle of the Coral Sea ‘42
The Burma Road ‘42
Henderson Field ’42
Clash At Lang Son ‘40
Nanking’s Requiem ‘37
Operation Cannibal ‘43
Operation Kogo ‘44
Assault on Tai’erchuang ‘38
Russian Beach Red ‘45
Battle For Meiktila ‘45
August Storm ‘45
Battle At Lake Kasan ‘38
Panzer Korps Scenario Book Eight
Panzer Korps Scenario Volume VIII is the Eighth in a series of Scenario books designed specifically for the Panzer Korps WWII Rules System. 12 ready to play Scenarios featuring the Russian Front with maps & Force Groups .
Battle for the Uryv Bridgehead ‘43
Paw Of The Tiger: Operation Gypsybaron ‘44
Russian Steel Near Kharkov ‘42
Kursk Counter stroke: Operation Kutuzov ‘43
Escape The Bear Trap: Operation Bagration ‘44
Black Wednesday: Spanish Blood Snow ‘43
Kursk: Ponyri Station ‘43
Blunted At Minsk-Mazovetsky ‘44
Red Giants ‘41
Slovakian Fast Corps Drives into Russia ‘41
Fulda Gap: Cold War Goes Hot ‘49
The Last Desperate Line: Seelow Heights ‘45
Panzer Korps Downloads
Sources
Hoplite Research
Panzer Korps Rules
Visit PANZERKORPHQ yahoogroup for details, fast play charts, and scenarios.
Panzer Korps Campaigns
Panzer korps rules and supplements can be bought from East Front Miniatures (full disclosure I own company).
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