Back in my high-school years, GDW released a handful of games on the same system, called First Battles. The main two games were Test of Arms and
Battlefield: Europe, two paired games that tie together quite nicely, even if the rules had some flaws that Steven Bucey has spent years tweaking to bring into line with reality.
More game-design kits than pure games, both of these cover a lot of different scenarios, from the very plausible (Yugoslavian civil war) to the wacky (Belgian civil war) in Battlefield: Europe, and games all over the world (Libya-Chad, India-Pakistan, etc) in Test of Arms.
All of the First Battles series games are consolidated on one thread over at CSW, so you also get Sands of War and Team Yankee in there, too.
Master links/images from Boardgamegeek.com; message boards linked to Consimworld. Other links to the actual game pages...
By: Brant
I have all the First Battles games except for Team Yankee. I liked the treatment in general, but felt the system really shortchanged the role of infantry. I expected this to be addressed in Test of Arms, but it wasn't. Some interesting ideas advanced overall, though.
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