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WW2 RPG ‘Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics – The Forest of Fear’ coming to PC this year

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Feb 082018

Smash hit horror-themed WW2 RPG ‘Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics – The Forest of Fear’ coming to PC this year

Introducing a narrative Turn-Based Strategy game with strong RPG elements set in the Achtung! Cthulhu universe

7th February, 2018: The allied powers of tabletop star Modiphius, indie publisher extraordinaire Ripstone and veteran strategy game developer Auroch Digital have announced they are marshalling their collective forces to will bring the award-winning Achtung! Cthulhu tabletop series to PC, in their new video game: Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics – The Forest of Fear, later this year.

Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics – The Forest of Fear is a World War II themed strategic role-playing game in which the Nazis have turned to other-worldly beings to bolster their war effort. In this universe, the Nazi’s well-known obsession with the occult has yielded results, with their discovery that the creatures of the Cthulhu Mythos are real. Thus begins ‘The Secret War’ where covert allied operators fight desperate battles against an unholy alliance of Nazi science and Mythos sorcery. Featuring Shoggoth-powered Panzers, HMG-armed investigators, mutated Nazi super soldiers, secret bunkers filled with mysterious research and alien artifact-powered wonder weapons – Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics – The Forest of Fear has it all!

First Blitz: Bombing London in the First World War

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Oct 132015

First Blitz: Bombing London in the First World War

$19.95

This book tells the story of Germany’s strategic air offensive against Britain, and how it came to be neutralized. The first Zeppelin attack on London came in May 1915 – and with it came the birth of a new arena of warfare, the ‘home front’. German airships attempted to raid London on 26 separate occasions between May 1915 and October 1917, but only reached the capital and bombed successfully on nine occasions.

From May 1917 onwards, this theatre of war entered a new phase as German Gotha bombers set out to attack London in the first bomber raid. London’s defenses were again overhauled to face this new threat, providing the basis for Britain’s defense during World War II.

This comprehensive volume tells the story of the first aerial campaign in history, as the famed Zeppelins, and then the Gotha and the massive Staaken ‘Giant’ bombers waged war against the civilian population of London in the first ever ‘Blitz’.

Author: Ian Castle

History of the Panzerwaffe Volume I: 1939-1943

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Oct 122015

History of the Panzerwaffe Volume I: 1939-1943

$39.95

The Germans transformed armored warfare from a lumbering and ponderous experiment in World War I into something that could decide the outcome of conflicts. This technical and operational history is the definitive guide to the legendary Panzerwaffe, from its very infancy to the days when it made Europe its garden path at the height of Nazi German power.

With rare and revealing combat reports, along with photographs sourced from previously unseen private and archival collections, it uncovers the technical and operational stories of the formidable armored beasts that formed the backbone of the German war machine – tanks such as the Panzer I, II and 38(t).

Author: Thomas Anderson

304 pages

Bolt Action: Empires in Flames: The Pacific and the Far East

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Oct 102015

Bolt Action: Empires in Flames: The Pacific and the Far East

$29.95

Far from the battlefields of Europe and North Africa, Allied forces fought a very different war against another foe. From the jungles of Burma to the islands of the Pacific and the shores of Australia, this new Theatre Book for Bolt Action allows players to command the spearhead of the lightning Japanese conquests in the East or to fight tooth and nail as Chindits, US Marines and other Allied troops to halt the advance and drive them back. Scenarios, special rules and new units give players everything they need to recreate the ferocious battles and campaigns of the Far East, from Guadalcanal to Okinawa, from Singapore to the Philippines, Iwo Jima and beyond.

Author: Warlord Games

Illustrator: Peter Dennis

128 pages

D-Day at Peleliu: 15 September 1944 From Decision Games

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Sep 172015

D-Day at Peleliu: 15 September 1944

$60.00

D-Day at Peleliu is a solitaire game simulating the amphibious invasion of Peleliu in the Palau Islands. The Marines assaulted with the primary goal of capturing the airstrip nestled amid jungle and overlooked by forbidding mountain terrain. Though Maj. Gen. William Rupertus, commander of the division, predicted a quick four-day victory, the battle was instead a two-month ?ght to the death against some 10,000 tenacious Japanese.

New For Malifaux

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Apr 072015

Resurrectionists: Ashigaru (3)

$21.00

Golem Arcana: Zikia: Heralds of the Great Weald

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Mar 312015

Golem Arcana: Zikia: Heralds of the Great Weald

$34.99

Heralds of the Great Weald includes three new Zikia Golems to be used in any Golem Arcana Army. The expansion set includes a Warspite, Orgre, and Titan class Golem.

The Nightshade, A warsprite that uses its attack to teleport to enemies, perfect for devastating ranged units.

The Prowler, A quick Orgre that roams the battlefield with a powerful AOE attack.

The Earthfall, A mobile Titan the stampedes across the battlefield capable of dealing large amounts of damage.

New From Modiphius Dust Tactics Hardback

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Feb 242015

DUST Adventures (Hardback)

$54.99

Another Earth. A different 1947. The Second World War has raged for nearly a decade and its grip has spread to every continent on the planet. War has advanced swiftly and strangely in the Dust universe through the application of Alien VK technology – a limitless source of energy in its simplest form, and an unthinkable weapon in the wrong hands. Tanks have evolved into powerful combat walkers and rocket troops take to the skies. The latest laser cannons, phasers, and Tesla weapons rule the battlefield.

March Dystopian Legion eleases From Spartan Games

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Feb 202015

DLKB41 Kingdom of Britannia Infantry Officer Set
The Kingdom of Britannia has territories spread across the globe, and is an Empire unlike any seen before. If you ask at the local gentleman’s club as to why this is, it will be explained it is because of the courage of men and the superiority of the officers.
Infantry Officers are the backbone of every army; whether operating on their own or with a select section of guards, their insight, experience, courage and ability is so often the difference between victory and defeat! The fine men and women that make up the Officer Corps of the Kingdom of Britannia are almost universally drawn from aristocratic stock.
Contains: 2 Infantry Officers, 5 Line Infantry, 1 Musician and a deck of Tactical Action Cards. Models supplied unpainted and unassembled.

Flip Through Bolt Action Rule Book

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Oct 012014

In this Episode Matt Flips Through the small rule book for Bolt Action from Warlord Games. Bolt Action is a historical miniatures game by Cavatore and Priestly that is published by Warlord Games and Osprey Publishing. This book is just full of color pictures and high quality images.

I have never really dove into a historical game but I think i’m getting ready to.

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