Compass Games Holiday Catalog

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Compass Games 2023

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2040: An American Insurgency by Edward Castronova simulates a US civil war in the 21st Compass Games will be hosting our Fall convention. by Ken Repel is 5a card-driven strategy game century. In this 2-player, 3-hour game, the blue 90 Compass Games Expo 2023 will be held at the Comfort Inn & Suites that simulates the naval and land actions team is the Federals, agents of the government (Meriden, CT) over Veterans Day Weekend (Nov. 9-13, 2023). We have fought on and around the Great Lakes of North in Washington. The red team is the Rebels, 80 militia secured a special group rate for all attendees which includes complimentary America during The War of 1812. 80 groups trying to seize control of states, highways, breakfast. You will be taking part in the action-packed venue with gaming held under one roof and cities. The conflict spreads across the entire which includes: Monster games & open gaming, Designer hosted playtest sessions, Euro games, 80 Retail Price: $69.00 Tournament play, seminars, special attendee discounts, and play games from any publishers. More continental US, from Miami to Seattle information is on our website 3 Maps, Special Price: $55.00 and from55Los Angeles to New York. Retail Price: $99.00 Hotel Phone Number: (203) 440-9600 www.compassgames.com/expo 337 counters, 1 Mounted Map Special Price: $80.00 104 US5 Strategy Cards, 1 Rule 25 booklet Complexity: Medium 102 British Strategy Cards, 14 2 PACs Catalog Information 1 News Cycle Display Time Scale: Seasonal turns Combat Cards, No coupon code required for special, blowout, holiday, or preorder order prices. Deck of Event Cards & Story Cards Map Scale: 55 square miles per 4 PACs, The holiday, blowout and special prices are good through 1/31/2024. Wooden pieces for forces 1 countersheet When preordering games, you may provide your payment information so your credit card can hex 1 Terrain Chart, 10 10 Complexity: Medium be charged closer to the date of publication. You can choose the option you prefer when completing Unit Scale: Regiments 2 Land/Naval Combat Displays, Time scale: Not specified, but approximately one year per turn, 95 Players: 2 your order online or by checking the appropriate box on the catalog order form. 5 Single Map Scenarios, covering a 4 to 5 year conflict Checks and money orders are always welcome when you mail your order forms. Solitaire: Medium Social Media Track 6 Two-Map Scenarios & Full Players: 1-2 bestRebellion withPower 2 Track A B C Preorder and direct sales through our website are important for Compass to continue to produce Playing Time: 1.5 hours for Campaign, quality games. So please take advantage of our Blowout, Holiday, Special, and Preorder,pricing to single map scenarios (9 hours for Solitaire: High 1 Rules Book & 1 Play Book F E D 4 3 2 1 0 Rebel HQ Federal HQ receive substantial savings over retail prices. campaign) Playing Time: 2-3 hours (+) Includes Portland

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Retail Price: $79.00

Special Price: $65.00

The above mentioned prices cannot be combined with any other offer.

No coupon code required online

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Compass Games (each 22 x 34) PO Box 271 Cromwell, CT 06416 USA 22 maps rulebooks

Barbarians At The Gates

Barbarians at the Gates, The Decline and Fall of the Western Roman Empire 337 - 476 by Kris Van Beurden (whose credits include Europe in Turmoil), is a card-driven game for two players set during the final century of the Western Roman Empire. Retail Price: $89.00

2.5 sheets of counters

Battle Hymn Vol 2

Battle Hymn: Volume Two Shiloh and Bentonville by Eric Lee Smith is the sequel game release to Volume One and includes two complete games: Shiloh and Bentonville. Battle Hymn is the new brigade-level system based upon the latest research into Civil War combat. This new entry introduces a new solitaire system to the series.

Back In Stock Feb Preorder Price: $65.00 2024

Retail Price: $79.00

Complexity: Medium 1 Mounted Map Map Scale: Point-to-point of Western Roman Empire 1 Rule & 1 Unit Scale: About 5-10 thousand troops playbook per CU 2 Distinct PACs Time Scale: +/- 10 years per turn 110 Strategy cards Players: 1-2 2.5 Countersheets Solitaire: Medium with rounded Playing Time: Multiple 2-hour scenarios, corners full campaign about 5 hours

Late 2024

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Breaking The Chains 2.0

Breaking the Chains (BtC) by John Gorkowski simulates a hypothetical future military conflict over the South China and East China Seas around the year 2021. Conflicting claims of sovereignty have roiled those “near seas” Retail Price: $69.00 since the Cold War.

Preorder Price: $54.00 Early 2024

Complexity: Medium Time Scale: Daily Turns subdivided into 4-hour “cycles” Map Scale: 70 nautical miles per hex Unit Scale: Individual aircraft carriers, pairs or triplets of smaller ships/submarines; Air wings (25-75 aircraft); Land battalions, regiments and divisions Players: 1 to several

1 Mounted map 1 rulebook 2 reference cards 1 political status track Approximately 440 Solitaire: Medium Playing Time: 2-20 hours depending counters (5/8”) on scenario

Burma

Burma, 1942-45 Bob Fowler is a remake of the original Game Designers Workshop design from 1976. An operational-scale game using brigades and battalions, play moves in stops and starts as supply and the monsoon may limit operations. Retail Price: $55.00 Complexity: Medium Preorder Price: $42.00 Playing time: 2 to 6 hours

Solitaire: Medium

Players: 1-2 Map Scale: 1 hex = 15 miles Time Scale: 1 Turn = 1 Month Unit Scale: Brigades, Butais and Battalions

Mid 2024

1 Mounted game map 1 counter sheet (280 pieces) 4 Player Aid Cards 2 Order of Battle and Appearance Cards Rules Booklet

Combat! Vol 3

Combat! Vol 3 Adam Starkweather is a solitaire game of man-to-man combat in World War Two. This is the third game in the series of Combat! games that use the same system. This game introduces the British Armed Forces into the system. Retail Price: $139.00

Mid 2024

Preorder Price: 99.00

3 game maps (a histor- Complexity: Medium ically accurate map of Solitaire: High Designed the Arnhem Bridge), 1 specifically for solitaire 11” by 17” map play 6 counter sheets 2 Decks of Playing Cards Time Scale: 30-90 seconds per turn (52 cards for Allied, 50 Map Scale: 10 yards per hex Unit Scale: Single man per countcards for German) er; man-to-man combat 1 Display Mat Players: One 1 Impulse/Turn Track Playing Time: 3-5 hours per 1 Player Aid Card scenario 1 Rulebook

Preorder Price: $59.00

3 maps 2 Countersheets Standard Rules booklet Special Rules booklet 8 double-sided PACs

Complexity: Medium Map Scale: 1 hex = 300 yards across Unit Scale: Brigades, with some regiments Time Scale: 1 turn = 60 to 90 minutes depending on the day Players: 1-2, best with two

Solitaire: Designed for Solitaire Play

Playing Time: 1 to 3 hours (scenarios), 5 to 8 hours

Brief Border Wars 2

Burning Banners by Christopher Moeller brings the rich tapestry of Kalar to life with a breathtaking fusion of immersive artwork and engaging gameplay that grows with your group. April 2024 Retail Price: $119.00

Preorder Price: $99.00

Fantasy Game

7 Countersheet 4 Hand-Drawn Mounted Maps (with HUGE 1 ½” hexes) 192 Playing Cards 1 Rule Book 1 Campaign Book 1 Lore Booklet 6 Dual-Layered Kingdom Playmats 3 Cardstock Player Aids 2 Mounted Displays

Death in the Trenches Death in the Trenches by Ben R. Madison & Wes Erni is a strategic-level World War I game covering the entire war, in all theaters, on an army level with divisional formation. The game relies on simple mechanics that eliminate production bean counting and Retail Price: $79.00 complicated combat results Holiday Price: $52.00 tables. There are more than 500 random events draw you into the global nightmare of 1914-1918. Complexity: Medium Time Scale: 1 turn = 3 months Map Scale: 1 hex = approximately 80 miles Unit Scale: Army and Corps 1 Mounted Map Players:1-2 3 Countersheets

Solitaire: High

Playing Time: 10+ hours

1 Rules booklet 6 Player aid cards

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© 2020 Compass Games Design: Edward Castronova Artwork: Ilya Kudriashov

Atlantic Sentinels

American Tank Ace

American Tank Ace by Gregory M Alexandros and Spartacus by Mike Smith is a solitaire tank combat game set Markowitz features not one but two in WW2, where the player commands one great ancient games that originally of 9 models of an M4 Sherman tank or an appeared in Command magazine in M26 Pershing. Back In Stock 1991 and 1992, garnering numerous Dec 2023 Charles S. Roberts Award nominations Complexity: Medium and awards. This expanded edition Retail Price: $69.00 Time Scale: 3-4 days per turn features both games along with their Preorder Price: $54.00 Map Scale: Abstract multiple expansions, three in total. Unit Scale: Individual tank, Complexity: Low to Medium weapon systems, crew members, Map Scale: Both are area strategic ammo rounds Unit Scale: Legions Players: 1 (with option for 2 or 1 Countersheet Time Scale: Alexandros is Seasonal – more) 10 Tank Display Mats I Am Spartacus - Monthly 4 Player Aid Cards Solitaire: Designed for Players: 1-2 2 Crew Status Displays Solitaire Play Solitaire: Medium 1 Mission logsheet Playing Time: 2-3 hours Playing Time: 4 hours for full games 1 Rulebook

Rebel Tide

Atlantic Sentinels by Greg M. Smith provides players with a host of decisions as they are assigned to provide protection to merchant convoys, typically ranging from 40 to 60 ships. Early 2024

Retail Price: $69.00 Complexity: Medium Preorder Price: $52.00 Time Scale: Semi-abstract (Convoy escort missions, 2 per month) Map Scale: Abstract 1 Counter Sheet Unit Scale: Individual escorts, U-boats, 2 Tactical Displays merchant ships (when targeted) 3 PACs (double-sided) Players: One (with options for two) 3 PACs (single-sided)

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Playing Time: 10-15 minutes (single mission) 6-8 hours (full career)

Bismarck: The Last Battle by Petros Rebel Tide: The U.S. Civil War, 1861-65 by Gregory Sorilos is a compact, strategic-level M. Smith is a two-player strategic level game that places solitaire game covering the last 5 days you in command of either the USA (Union) or CSA (Confedof operations of the most feard German eracy) during the Civil War. battleship in WWII. This game utilizes a unique and strategic card-driven battle system revolving around Retail Price: $69.00 Complexity: Medium Retail Price: $59.00 Playing time: 3 to 4 hours Preorder Price: $54.00 Bismarck's operations.

Solitaire: High (Solitaire Bot system) Players: 2 (with option for solitaire play) Map Scale: Strategic; Abstract Time Scale: 1 year per Turn; each turn being composed of multiple card plays Unit Scale: Strategic (Infantry points, Cavalry points, Artillery points, and Leaders)

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Complexity: Medium Late 2024 Map Scale: Area map Unit Scale: Carriers, Battleships, Battlecruisers, Destroyers, Airplanes Time Scale: Single Day Turn with Mounted game map multiple cards plays per player 1 counter sheet Players: one 2 Player Aid Cards 48 Game Cards (24 per side)Solitaire: Designed for 3 Year Cards (double-sided) Solitaire Play Rules Booklet Playing Time: 1 to 2 hours

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Carrier Battle: Philippine Sea

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- Cargo Express Brief Border Wars 2 by Brian Train is - Coalition the second set of four small operational - Colonialism level games on short border conflicts. The - Cradle of Civilization game system uses a card-driven system - Dawn of Empire - Festung Europa first introduced in Brief Border Wars that models the chaotic, stop-and-start nature of - Fornvo 1495 - Korea Fire and Ice these impromptu wars. - Late Unpleastness - Lebensraum Retail Price: $65.00 Mid 2024 - Little Land Preorder Price: $54.00 - Maori Complexity: Medium - Operation Skorpion Time Scale: variable (1 day to 1 week per - Once We Moved Like The Wind turn) 4 Maps - Ostkrieg Map Scale: variable (area movement) 1 Countersheet Unit Scale: variable (paramilitary “groups” - Prelude to Rebellion 1 PAC - Triumph of The Will to divisions) - Battle of Armageddon 1 deck Players: 1-2 (best with 2) - Sovereign of The Seas 1 system rules Solitaire: Medium Napoleon’s Imperium 4 exclusive rules Paper War 81,82,84,85, Playing Time: 1-2 hours each booklets 86,87,88,90,91,94

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Preorder Price: Up to 25% off retail price. Use catalog order form or go online www.compassgames.com Percentages listed are approximate

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Air and Armor

Air & Armor: Operational Armored Warfare in Europe, Designer Signature Edition by Bruce Maxwell marks the return of one of the most highly rated wargames on modern warfare ever published. Air & Armor is a company level simulation of a Hypothetical Soviet attack on Retail Price: $95.00 West Germany in the mid-1980s. This Preorder Price: $70.00 new edition is lovingly recreated with 95 new map artwork, new unit counters, Complexity: Medium new unit values and updated rules. Map Scale: 1 Mile/hex March 2024 Unit Scale: Companies & Battalions Time Scale: 1 Turn = 2 Hours 2 22" x 34" Maps 5 Countersheets Players: 2-7 players 2 Player Charts & Tables Playing Time: 3 - 8 hours Booklets based on Scenario 5 TO&E Displays Solitaire: High Basic Game Rules Booklet (Solitaire Bot system) Advanced Game Rules Booklet EAST COAST

Mid 2024 1 Mounted Map 1 Player mat 2 Countersheets 54 Game Cards Player Aid Card Rules Booklet

British Tank Ace

British Tank Ace: 1940-45 by Gregory M. Smith is a solitaire, tactical-level game that places you in command of a British tank during World War II in North Africa, Italy, and the European Theaters of Operation. Early 2025 Retail Price: $69.00 Complexity: Medium Playing time: 10-15 minutes Preorder Price: $52.00 (single mission), 4-5 hours (full 2 Countersheets career) 11 Tank Display Mats Solitaire High; Designed (double-sided, for 22 for solitaire play different tank models Players: One or more total) Map Scale: Abstract 11 Player Aid Cards Time Scale: Semi-abstract (indi- 1 Crew Status Display vidual missions, 8 missions per Mat month) 3 Battle Boards Unit Scale: Individual tanks, 3 Operational Displays crewmen, enemy vehicles, anti-tank 1 Rules Booklet guns, and ammo 1 Mission Logsheet

Combat! Vol 1 (2nd Printing)

1 Operational Display Rules Booklet 1 Mission Logsheet

Blue Water Navy: The Pacific

Blue Water Navy - The Pacific by Stuart Tonge covers the action from the West coast of the USA over to Vietnam and is the sister game of Blue Water Navy, also by Compass which covers Europe. Early 2025

Retail Price: $109.00

Preorder Price: $80.00 Complexity: Medium Time Scale: Each turn = 2 days (each card play is one day) Map Scale: Each area represents 500 nautical miles square Unit Scale: Each counter represents 10 ships, 3 submarines, one squadron or regiment of air Number of Players:1- 2 2 maps Solitaire: Medium

Playing Time: 1-3 hours for scenarios and 8-12 hours per campaign game

2 countersheets 2 decks of 55 playing cards 8 double-sided PACs 1 rules booklet 1 scenario booklet

Operation 333

Operation Storm-333: Soviet coup in Kabul, 1979 by Christopher Davis introduces Volume 1 of the all-new Great Raids series! It is a solitaire game depicting the 1979 Soviet coup in Kabul that initiated the Afghan-Soviet War. Retail Price: $69.00

Preorder Price: $52.00 Early 2025 1 Countersheet 2 Mission Boards 8 Tactical Mission Boards 4 Player Aid Cards 33 Event Cards 44 Operational cards 40 Tactics cards 1 Rulebook

Complexity: Medium Time Scale: Months/Weeks/Days (Planning Phase), Minutes/Hours (Execution Phase) Map Scale: abstract (point-to-point movement) Unit Scale: individual leaders, officers, soldiers, weapons, ammo Players: 1 (co-op option for 2 players)

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Combat! Vol 2

Combat! Volume 2 by Ross Mortell is an add-on module for Combat! You

Combat! Volume 1 by Ross Mortell is a solitaire game on man-to-man Carrier Battle: Philippine Sea must have Combat! to play this combat in the 20th century. The player by Jonathan Southard is a will control friendly forces and attempt to expansion. A fully structured campaign solitaire simulation of the largest complete a scenario against enemy forces game consisting of 6 'Chapters', 'Normandy', carrier battle in history, fought that are controlled by the 'Pursuit', 'Hurtgen Forest', 'The Bulge', 'The during the invasion of Saipan Retail Price: $69.00 Retail Price: $139.00 game system. Siegfried Line' and 'Germany'. Retail Price: $139.00 (June, 1944). As the U.S. Preorder Price: $54.00 Holiday Price: $90.00 Follow the fortunes of your commander, you maneuver Holiday Price: $90.00 Complexity: Medium squad from D-day to VE-day. your task forces and conduct air Complexity: High 6 game maps searches in a tension-packed Map Scale: 33 nmi per hex Time Scale: Abstracted dependent upon actions taken per round 3 Countersheets (5/8") contest to find the Japanese Unit Scale: Individual capital but between 30 seconds and 2 minutes 4 1-inch Countersheets Complexity: Medium carriers before they locate and ships; groups of smaller ships; Map Scale: 10 yards per hex 2 Rulebooks & Scenario Books Time Scale: Abstracted Unit Scale: Single man – man-to-man combat attack yours. 8-12 planes per unit. 2 Pads 7 Displays/Charts dependent upon actions Time Scale: 20 minutes per Players: 1 – Designed for solitaire play Back In Stock taken per round but between 30 seconds and 2 minutes Solitaire: Designed for Solitaire Play phase, 80 minutes per full Dec 2023 Map Scale: 10 yards per hex Playing Time: 2-6 hours dependent upon size of scenario turn. 1 Mounted Map 4 maps 4 5/8 inch countersheets Unit Scale: Single man – man-to-man combat Players: 1-2 4 Countersheets Players: One – Designed specifically for solitaire play 2 1 inch countersheets 2 decks of cards Rulebook and Table Booklet Solitaire: Designed Solitaire: Designed for Solitaire Play 1 Rule & Scenario Book for Solitaire Play Multiple PACs Playing Time: 2-6 dependent upon size of scenario 4 Displays/Charts 1 Turn Display

Desert Blitzkrieg

Desert Blitzkrieg by Michael Vitale is a treatment of the main struggle between the Axis represented by Rommel and the Afrika Korps versus the British and their Commonwealth Allies from April 1941 to December 1942. Retail Price: $69.00

Mid 2024

Desert Generals

Dog Boats

Dog Boats: Battle of the Narrow Seas Desert Generals by Ernie Copley by Joe Carter is a solitaire, tactical-level, captures the ebb and flow of the North narrative-driven wargame. You, as Commander, African Campaign from late 1940 to will lead a squadron of 4 Royal Navy gun boats November 1942 with a unique or torpedo boats on night missions against emphasis on leadership and command. German Kriegsmarine forces in the English Retail Price: $69.00 Channel during 1943-1944.

Retail Price: $65.00 Mid Complexity: 3-4 Preorder Price: $52.00 Solitaire: Designed for Preorder Price: $54.00 Map Scale: It's 'Point-to-Point' Preorder Price: $54.00 Solitaire Play 2 Countersheets Complexity: Medium game. Covers the same 'distance' 2 maps 1 Mounted Strategic Movement Board Playing time: 1 hour for scenari- 1 Fairmile D Gun Boat Crewmen Placement Board 190 counters as old Avalon Hill 'Afrika Korps'. 2 5/8 inch counter os, 4 hours for the full campaign 1 Vosper 72’ Crewmen Placement Board 34x22 Mounted map area Aghelia to El Alamein. sheets 22 Cards Solitaire: High Time Scale: Monthly turns Mid 2024 2 Combat Boards 3 setup sheets Summary of play / Sum- Unit Scale: Regimental equivaPlayers: Two (suitable for solitaire Fairmile D Boat Damage Log / Vosper 72’ Damage Log 2 double-sided play mary of Combat card (2 of lents with Divisional Integrity a key play) Boat Squadron Status Sheet aids these) Map Scale: Appox. 10 miles per 1 Enemy Merchant Ship Status/ Enemy Warship Status feature Detailed sequence of Battle Board (about 6x9) Players: 2 hex 1 Campaign Log Sheet play sheet Rules booklet Time Scale: 1 Turn = 1 Month 1 Boat #1 Crew Status Sheet Solitaire: Medium 1 Rules Booklet Examples of Play booklet Playing Time: Full Game 10+ Unit Scale: Battalions, Regi1 Boats #2-#4 Crew Status Sheet 2 Tables Books 1 Scenario Booklet ments, and Divisions 1 Rule Book 2 Erasable markers hours; Short Game 2 1/2 - 3 hours

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