Air Assault on Crete is a wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1977 that simulates the Battle of Crete during World War II. Air Assault on Crete is a two-player...

form airborne-assault and airfield-defence regiments. British forces had initially garrisoned Crete when the Italians attacked Greece on 28 October 1940...

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player owns stock is acquired by a larger chain, players earn money based on the size of the acquired chain. At the end of the game, all players liquidate...

Betrayal at House on the Hill is a board game published by Avalon Hill in 2004, designed by Bruce Glassco and developed by Rob Daviau, Bill McQuillan,...

division played a significant role in the development of modern day air assault operations. Towards the end of the war, the formation was reshaped into...

RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha, was announced in 2017. It is based heavily on the Chaosium second edition, drawing upon ideas from later editions. The new...

single population token in the area based on the specific civilization represented (e.g. on the island of Crete for the Cretans or in Africa for the Egyptians)...

Best of Board Wargaming, Nick Palmer compared Descent on Crete to the rival game Air Assault on Crete (Avalon Hill, 1977), and said, "The AH game is more...

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multinational toy manufacturing and entertainment holding company founded on December 6, 1923 by Henry, Hillel and Herman Hassenfeld and is incorporated...

of a majority of strategic cities and provinces marked as "supply centers" on the map; these supply centers allow players who control them to produce more...

Regiment of the 7th Air Division commanded by Colonel Alfred Sturm. The attack on Rethymno was one of four airborne assaults on Crete on 20 May, and part...

in another territory for later battles, as in the case of an amphibious assault or when attacking units withdraw. Due to the success of Axis & Allies:...

wargaming, including the use of a hexagonal grid (a.k.a. hexgrid) overlaid on a flat folding board, zones of control (ZOC), stacking of multiple units at...

helicopter assault, the 11th Airborne Division was reactivated at Fort Benning on 1 February 1963 and redesignated as the 11th Air Assault Division (Test)...

exist for playing with as many as eight players. Cosmic Encounter is based on a fixed set of rules which are subsequently modified by other elements of...

Unit's maritime interception operations assault force aboard the training ship HNS Aris in Souda Bay, Crete, Greece A U.S. Navy and Hellenic Navy in...

The history of Crete goes back to the 7th millennium BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia. The Minoan civilization...

player places their robot on a starting square on the Docking Bay board with their matching archive marker under the robot. On each turn: The Program card...

(/ˈwɒtˌsiː/) or Wizards) is an American publisher of games, most of which are based on fantasy and science-fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail game...

advantages and disadvantages based on the order in which it appears in an epoch as well as its starting location on the world map, number of armies, ability...

is a connection game where players alternate turns placing pegs and links on a pegboard in an attempt to link their opposite sides. While TwixT itself...

renamed and reissued by Avalon Hill. Rail Baron is played on a map of the United States on which the routes of 28 historic railroads, such as the Baltimore...

2008. The Valley Games edition was adapted to the Apple iPad and released on December 21, 2011.[better source needed] The main game board consists of 96...

7th Air Division, commanded by Colonel Bruno Bräuer. The attack on Heraklion during the afternoon of 20 May was one of four airborne assaults on Crete that...

Squander (written as "$QUANDER" on the box and in the rules) is an Avalon Hill board game published in 1965. It is based loosely on the game Monopoly, but in...

for 56 different types of tanks and assault guns for the Germans alone, with armor values from 0 to 26, based on actual thickness and degree of slope...

the subsequent Normandy campaign. In early June 1944, Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy. Although German forces were not able to eliminate...