Urban Wargame Reviews
Fairly formal reviews based on a single formal play to identify game mechanics and to see how they play. Format roughly follows Peter Perla's "Model Outline of a Hobby Wargame Review" in The Art of Wargaming. Stars are out of 5 and highly personal based how much they might contribute to the PhD (and are changing over time)!
- Arnhem, Storm Over Arnhem - Avalon Hill ***
- Berlin'85 - SPI ***
- Budapest 1956, Days of Ire - Cloud Island ***
- Budapest 1956, Nights of Fire - Mighty Boards ***1/2
- Donetsk - Tiny Battle Publishing *** 1/2
- Fallujah 2004 - Modern Warfare ****
- Fallujah 2004, Phantom Fury - Nuts! ****1/2 - tactical, bn force
- Fallujah 2004, Second Fallujah - Paper Wars ***1/2 - but best Fallujah if you want the overall feel
- Grozny, Into a Bear Trap - LPS/Against The Odds ***1/2
- Hue, Battle of Hue - Tiny Battle Publishing ***
- Hue, City of Confusion - High Flying Dice Games **** - see my Battles of Hue paper
- Hue, Vietnam Battles: Hue - S&T ** - see my Battles of Hue paper
- Hue, A Week in Hell: The Battle of Hue - Battles *** - see my Battles of Hue paper
- Hue, Block by Block – Battle of Hue - Modern War *** - see my Battles of Hue paper
- Hue, Hue - Mayfair ** - see my Battles of Hue paper
- Mogadishu, Day of Heroes - Lock'n'Load Publishing ***1/2
- Mogadishu, The MOG - White Dog Games ****
- Mosul, Battle for Mosul - Fight Club International ***1/2
- Mosul, We Are Coming Nineveh - Nuts! ****
- Ortona, Christmas in Hell - High Flying Dice Games ***
- QUICK - Brain Train Games **** 1/2
- Ramadi, Battle for Ramadi - Tiny Battle Publishing ***
- Stalingrad, Battle for Stalingrad - DVG **(**** as recreational game)
- Stalingrad, Pavlov's House - DVG ****
- Stalingrad, Verdun on the Volga - LPS/Against The Odds***
- Tango Down (CQB) - Tiny Battle Publishing ****
- This War of Mine - 11 bit studios/Galakta **** 1/2
- Ukraine, Game of Drones - Historic Wings ***
- War In The Megacity - CounterFact ***1/2
These aren't really Urban, but thought I'd put them here so I know where they are:
- Battlegroup Clash: Baltics - Sapper Studios
- Littoral Commander - Dietz Foundation ****
- Ukrainian Crisis - Hollandspiele/Brain Train ****
Games Played But Not Yet Formally Reviewed
- Seize Warsaw - VCOW game, Offside in The Nugget
- Flashpoint: Fire Rescue - tactical fire fighting game
- Blockbusting - the Phil Sabin game
- Rattenkrieg: Assault on the Tracktor Factory - postcard game
- Shooting DaedelusKicking Doors - Evan d'Alessandro's CQB game
Miniatures/Measured Movement Games
Again not formally reviewed.
- Buck Surdu's ACP164, with a great card-based resolution system
- Force on Force/Ambush Alley
- Ultramodern
- Skirmish Sangin
- Dropzone Commander - but used in a modified way in the Vertical Urban Wargame
- GDW Traveller's Azhanti High Lightning (actually grid based)