Todd Davis  - Jan 12, 2005 11:34 pm (#366 Total: 400)  
CSU-reprinting old, oop games for fun and profit! Next 
up-John Hill's Jerusalem! in January 2005 Currently 
translating Masahiro Yamazaki's "War for the Motherland 
2ed" into Gamespeak. Fall of Tobruk reprint of old CGC 
game: $29.00 
	 
AD TECHNOS -A COLLECTOR’S TALE, pt. 1-

By Todd A. Davis

Introduction

I began gaming when I was eleven. I ran across a copy of Squad Leader
while shopping with my parents at the PX in the Fairchild Airforce Base
in Spokane, WA in 1978. It took a lot of verbal effort to get them to
buy it for me, but they eventually did and I was the happiest camper in
the whole world for the first hour or so…….until I tried to read the
rules! I managed to understand the first column of rules, but then got
lost very quickly. Good thing Avalon Hill thought to include a catalog-I
soon ordered a copy of Tactics II and I was off and running. 

As I think most gamers go, for a while I could actually pull down and
PLAY any game on my shelf without reading the rules or studying
beforehand. This lasted for about 50 or so games. You all know how it
goes after that: “I’ll get to this one next” and you never do; or
“Ooops, shouldn’t have bought that, I’ll never play it”. Well,
eventually I had to say one of the worst phrases in gaming: “I’m a
collector, not a gamer”. Oh, I still play the games (fairly often,
really), but the emphasis has turned into collecting, not playing. I
like old, interesting and hard-to-find games-it is the ‘hunt’, ya know? 

Since I was the only person I knew that gamed, I had a slow start. I
never knew of SPI until about 1981 or so, missed GDW, and completely
overlooked all of the independently-published games of the time. I
finally found out about them through getting a ‘For Sale’ list from
somebody in Tucson, AZ who had posted in the AvH General. I picked up a
copy of Panzerfaust #77, and WOW, a whole new world of gaming opened up
right then! There actually were other makers of games besides Avalon
Hill. I read and reread that magazine till it collapsed, pouring over
the games for sale by Don Lowry and the subscribers. Trouble was, by the
time I got the magazine; all the companies had passed away. How to
acquire the games then? 

Fast forward to 1986-I was living in Houston, TX at the time. I had
found Nan’s Game HQ and its huge wall of games! I was in heaven. I spent
lots of paychecks there and had lots of magazines about games. One, Fire
& Movement (#21 I think), had an ad for a game called “Streets of
Stalingrad” that sounded so good; I immediately sent my money off. I
then started to get flyers from a company called Quarterdeck that was
bringing in games from Japan!! I never knew people in other countries
were playing wargames as well! I ordered a game called “Bitter End” from
a company called Hobby Japan for $30.00 and man, was I impressed! It had
mounted maps, great graphics, and a really cool situation. Then a flyer
came for one called “The Last Gamble”. It was touted as being the
penultimate Battle of the Bulge game and it had a fantastic box cover to
boot! The designer (Danny Parker) was a Bulge historian who had made a
game (and others, I later found out) out of his immense knowledge of the
battle. I immediately sent off the $50.00 for it and waited by the
window...and waited. 

Two months later a letter (and my check) arrived from Quarterdeck
explaining that they had to refund my money for The Last Gamble because
of the flip-flop of the Japanese and American currencies and that is was
no longer feasible to import the games now. Nooooooo! What was I going
to do now? I was hooked; I HAD to have my Last Gamble game. Other
Japanese games remained a complete mystery to me for 15 more years. 

Well, fifteen years later, I acquire a computer and find John Kranz’
www.consimworld.com on the net. It was like getting that first
Panzerfaust magazine back in 1981!!! Then I find www.web-grognard.com
and have INFORMATION OVERLOAD. So many games, so many companies, so
little cash! I find out that there were many different Japanese gaming
companies (and even some new ones to take their place!) with all sorts
of games. Now to get ahold of them... 

...a year later, I have four copies of The Last Gamble sitting on my
shelf next to my original copy of Bitter End (which has survived three
moves and some storage time rather well), and I get ahold of my first
game by a company called Ad Technos (AT): Red sun/Black Cross. 

RSBC is possibly the most famous of the Japanese games imported into the
states. I had heard a rumor that there were only 50 copies here
(actually, the number originally imported was 250) and it was as rare as
the proverbial hens tooth. It had a unique situation: What if Germany
and Japan had been the victors in WW2 and then fought it out between
themselves for domination of the world? Sounds like a great evening of
gaming to me! Then I find out about the expansion games-Return to Europe
and Escort Fleet. I am a ‘collector’, so I have to have these as
well—don’t laugh; you know EXACTLY what I am talking about! I have yet
to push a counter around for RSBC, but I know I will someday... 

Eventually, I decide to try and get the entire Ad Technos line of games.
It is a rather small line of games (total of 28), covering a wide array
of subjects. Should be no problem (yea, right!) I tell myself. Well, it
was. Over the course of the last _____ years, I have been hunting them
down one by one. I finally managed to get the last one in ____ of ____. 

I decided to write this article to return the ‘favor’ of information
about games I had never heard of to other gamers who (I hope) find it
interesting. 

About the games:

Each of the games is presented in the format of: Product Code, Title,
Year of Publication, and original Suggested Retail Price (in JPYN). A
components description and quick synopsis of the game follow. Player Aid
Cards are abbreviated ‘PAC’ and, unless noted, are 8 ½ x 11”. In
addition to the listed components, a registration card and one or two
six-sided dice were included as well (the ones with the red dot as a
one). 

The original six titles were published in a tall, magazine-style format
similar to the Special Editions currently published by Command of Japan
(but no advertisements or hobby information). Most Ad Technos (AT)
titles starting with SGB-7 (Napoleon’s Russian Campaign) were published
in standardized 2" deep bookcase boxes, except for the games in the
Sports and Adventure Series (SaAS), which are only 1” thick. The boxes
are equally in-between GMT and AvH boxes in height and width. 

The usual die-cutting was done in 252-ct countersheets. The counters are
semi-gloss, somewhat thin and the die-cutting is very well done. The
counters in the SaAS were……. For the most part, Western-language
characters are used, but here and there, Japanese characters are used as
well. The maps are 22 x 34" paper unless specified otherwise. The
graphics are dated now, but were very good for the time. Most of the
maps were made to be more functional than natural in appearance. They
followed the pattern of extending terrain icons to include the full hex,
not just a portion of it, similar to what SPI was doing in the 75-78
period. 

The rulebooks are done in black and white, with examples of play and
diagrams. I have listed their page count using the ‘English style’ of
numbering pages (i.e. counting front and back covers). The magazine
format was a 48-pg (B+W), in the ‘tall-style’ with thick white cardstock
covers and a color slipcover. The counters and maps are bound into the
rear of the book. The countersheets are perforated and the counters
die-cut, while the maps had to be cut out. The counters are also thicker
than boxed AT games and are matte-finished. 

SGB-1 Mist of the Ardennes (1983) (1500)

Mist of the Ardennes covers the Battle of the Bulge. The first 26 pgs
are devoted to the battle, while the next eleven pgs are actual rules
and the final ten pgs cover the charts, table, set-ups, etc. that come
with a game. 

The map is in two pieces, each 11x17” and looks amazingly like SPI’s
“Wacht Am Rhein” that I can see (my copy is MINT and I refuse to open it
all up), including coloring and style. Judging by the fact that the game
lasts five days of the campaign (the 16th to 20th of Dec) and the units
included (no SS, but the 2nd PZ and Lehr Pz Divisions), I would guess
that the game covers the opening assault by the 5th Panzer Army against
Clervaux and the 28th US infantry division. 

The game has battalion-sized units almost exclusively. Units have only
one combat number and some sort of morale or training rating as there
are several units with one or two stars between the combat and movement
numbers. The main thing is that the game uses strength points
reduction-there are roster sheets for record-keeping of unit losses. The
CRT is by strength point loss and there is a detailed chart for CRT
modifiers, presumably for combined arms. Also, next to the strength
point boxes are a number of boxes for each unit for each day. I would
gather that the game tracks unit fatigue as well. There are barrage and
range values on artillery and support and range numbers on the
regimental HQ units. 

SGB-2 Diadochoi--A divided uncompleted Empire (1983) (1500) 

The first 23 pages cover the history leading up to and concerning the
game, including chapters on the generals, tactics of the time, and maps
of the battlelines. The following 16 pages are the rules of the game,
with a further 8 pages of charts, tables and (mostly) tracks. 

The game covers the ceaseless in-fighting amongst Alexander the Great’s
Generals after his death. The map stretches from Northern Macedonia and
Benghazi in the west to the Caspian Sea in the east. The map uses a more
naturalized look than most other AT games and is completely in Japanese,
other than the title. Units are of indeterminate size, but include
Elephants, ships, and leaders as well as infantry. Also, the counters
use mostly Japanese characters, except for the Arabic numerals. 

Movement in the game looks to be controlled by leaders, with
interception being available to the non-phasing player. Combat units are
counted by points and the CRT is percentage-based for losses. The game
runs 16 years (315-300 BC) with an impulse track or turn track (?) based
on the seasons (9 boxes per year). 

SGB-3 Alternative Sekigahara (1983) (1800)

The first six pages cover the events leading up to the battle, while the
next 12 pages cover the rules of the game and the rest are a detailed
description of the participants involved. The map contains four 11x17”
pieces, making one whole map together. The map does not use full-hex
terrain symbols but does include a vast array of set-up boxes for the
different clans involved. 

As its name implies, this is a alternative history of the Battle of
Sekigahara in 1600. The counters have a combat and movement value with
some of the troops having their combat number in parenthesis (the
musket-armed troops I bet, but there does seen to be a lot of them).
There is a neat time spiral in the middle of a roster page (what is
recorded there, I have no idea), as the CRT is a ‘push-style’ one, with
the results of ‘AD’, ‘AR’ ‘Eng’, ‘DR’ and ‘DD”. Apparently the game
lasts twelve turns, but there is no indication of turn length, map or
unit scale. 

SGB-4 Winter War (198 ) (1500)

SGB-5 Civil War 672 (198 ) (1500)

SGB-6 African Gambit (198 ) (1500)

SGB-7 Napoleon’s Russian Campaign (1985) (6800)

Subtitled “Borodino & Smolensk.”

NRC includes one mapsheet (back printed), 504 counters, one 24-pg
rulebook and two (one 32-pg and one 44-pg) historical booklets. Turns
are hourly and there is no indication of hex size. Combat units are
brigades and divisions with separate leaders. Leaders have four numbers
on them (?) while combat units only three (combat, morale and movement).
The CRT is by strength point losses and there is a demoralization track
as well for each side. The map terrain and its effect chart look very
similar to SPI’s

Todd Davis - Jan 12, 2005 11:37 pm (#367 Total: 400)  
CSU-reprinting old, oop games for fun and profit! Next up-
John Hill's Jerusalem! in January 2005 Currently translating 
Masahiro Yamazaki's "War for the Motherland 2ed" into Gamespeak. 
Fall of Tobruk reprint of old CGC game: $29.00 	 

SGB-7 Napoleon’s Russian Campaign (1985) (6800)

Subtitled “Borodino & Smolensk.”

NRC includes one mapsheet (back printed), 504 counters, one 24-pg
rulebook and two (one 32-pg and one 44-pg) historical booklets. Turns
are hourly and there is no indication of hex size. Combat units are
brigades and divisions with separate leaders. Leaders have four numbers
on them (?) while combat units only three (combat, morale and movement).
The CRT is by strength point losses and there is a demoralization track
as well for each side. The map terrain and its effect chart look very
similar to SPI’s old NAW system, with a little more chrome. There are
additional rules for fortifications and bridges also. 

SGB-8 Normandy Operation Overlord (1985) (4300) 

Two identical 11x17” maps, two 11x17” color PAC (one for each player),
one PAC, 504 counters, 24-pg. rulebook. Only the historical scenario is
presented. The game takes 32 turns. 

Units are divisions with no combat values. Each division has an
associated marker for use on the PAC. The player’s PACs are tracking
intensive, recording supplies, combat efficiency, reinforcement
appearance, and much, much more. Many of the rules cover the interaction
of the markers on the PACs during combat. I imagine most of the ‘game’
here is managing your PAC correctly vis-à-vis the map. 

Other counters include DD tanks, commandos, coastal artillery,
strongpoints, naval bombardment and TAC air markers and a whole handful
with Japanese text (which is somewhat rare in Japanese games actually). 

This game is way up on my list of games needing translation. It almost
looks like one of the old double-blind games (with the two identical
maps), except that there are no apparent rules for those procedures.
Maybe I received an extra map by mistake? A very interesting-looking
game indeed. 

SGB-9

SGB-10 Panzer Division Kommandeur (1985) (3800)

One mapsheet, 504 counters, one 24-pg rule/scenario booklet (8 scenarios
ranging from 1940 to 1945), three PAC (two are identical). Only 10 ½
pages of the book are actual rules, the rest being scenarios, historical
information and designer’s notes. 

The units are German, Russian, French, British and US. They and have
large, white “D’s” on the backside (presumably meaning
‘Disrupted/Disorganized’). Markers include “Fired,” and “Reaction,” with
two levels of improved positions. Artillery may use ranged fire. The
charts and tables include five combat-related tables, three of them
detailing unit interaction. Each player’s card also has two tracks on
which to record information. No indication of turn length or scale. No
indication of unit size. 

SGB-11 Red Sun/Black Cross (1985) (6800)

RS/BC has two mapsheets, 1008 counters, six PACs, one 30-pg history
booklet, a 32-pg scenarios booklet and a 48-pg rulebook. Also included
in many copies of RSBC are 49-pg copies of English rules, including all
PACs, plus charts and tables (the rules themselves are only 23 pages
long). 

The setting for the game is that Germany won WW2 (conquered Europe) due
to Japan not attacking the USA and we both stayed neutral while Japan
picked up territorial concessions. Now it is 1948 and Germany and Japan
are about to fight it out for control of the Indian subcontinent. The
USA is on Japan’s side in the conflict. 

The maps go from Turkey and Egypt to Burma. Ground units are divisions,
capital ships are shown individually, and air units are about 30 planes
each. The rules state that all three types of combat (air, land, naval)
are represented equally and there is a form of programmed instruction
here in that there is a separate naval and ground game, with the
relevant air rules being included in each. 

One of the more innovative rules that I remember reading was that combat
was preformed in-hex. Supply points play a key role in the game, as they
determine who is allowed to do what on any given turn. 

SGB-12 Battle of Ravenna (1985) (5,800)

Subtitled “Renaissance Art of War.”

One die-cut mapboard (22 x 34”), one sheet of counters, one roster pad
of double-sided sheets, one PAC, one 40-pg rule/scenario/historical
booklet (4 scenarios) and one strange little d10 (it has almost 14
sides, but only ten numbers). Only about 20 pgs contain the actual
rules. The game appears to cover only one battle, broken into four
scenarios with the campaign game being the last. Battle of Ravenna is
unique in that it is the only Ad Technos game to ever have a mounted
mapboard. It is very similar to what Avalon Hill used the early 90’s
with similar results (bowing of the map). 

The counters each have five numbers on them-firepower, melee, movement
and some sort of morale values (written as either + or -). There are a
bunch of strength point counters as well to go along with the roster
sheets. Most of the counters are in Japanese script. Units must face a
vertex, with limited front facing allowed depending on the unit type.
Many of the rules look to involve the firing and targeting of the
various units, including cavalry charges and the ability of units to
react to that. 

Todd Davis - Jan 12, 2005 11:38 pm (#368 Total: 400)  
CSU-reprinting old, oop games for fun and profit! Next 
up-John Hill's Jerusalem! in January 2005 Currently 
translating Masahiro Yamazaki's "War for the Motherland 2ed" 
into Gamespeak. Fall of Tobruk reprint of old CGC game: $29.00 
	 
SGB-13 Decline of the Empire 1814-1815 (1986) (6800)

DotE contains one map, stretching from Dunkerque and Paris on the west
edge to Roermoon and Luxemburg City on the east edge. There are 756
counters, along with 8 PAC, many of them off-map strength tracks. There
is a 28 pg rulebook and a 24 pg Historical Notes booklet. 

This is nothing more than a modified version of Kevin Zucker’s
“Campaigns of Napoleon” system, period. The differences I can see are
not using individual combat units with historical IDs, instead the
designer chose to use icon units (such as artillery or infantry)
combined with strength point markers to go underneath. Also, leaders are
not on the map and forces are represented by numbered force markers
instead. There is an AP Table, but no Attrition Table. The CRT is vastly
different, with the addition of negative numbered results and ‘D’ and
‘DD’ results (would sure like to see those!). There is also the
ubiquitous Paris Morale Track. 

SGB-14 Fighting General Patton (1986) (5300)

FGP includes four 11x17: maps, 504 counters, two color PAC, and one 40
pg rulebook. If you happen to have the US version of the game, you will
also have two B+W PAC, and a 32 pg 5x8” English rulebook. One thing to
note is that the US rulebook does not include the historical notes
portion that the Japanese rulebook did. 

There are four games included here: “At Fascist’s Foot”, Gela Beachhead,
Sicily 1943; “Rush on Avranches-Normandy 1944; “Raise the Siege!”,
covering the relief attempt at Bastogne; and “Breakthrough Iron
Curtain”, a hypothetical US-Soviet clash in 1945. 

Think ‘SPI Quad’ and you will know what this game is immediately. Units
range from battalion to regiment/brigade, depending on the battle. There
are a few special rules between the games. The sequence of play has been
altered somewhat from the standard SPI WW2 Quad style however. Artillery
can bombard before the friendly movement phase for example. 

SGB-15 Business War (1986) (5800)

Two 11x17 country displays (Japan & USA), divided into provinces (5 for
the USA and 8 for Japan). Two thick pads of one-sided record sheets
(each 5x8”). One heavy cardstock PAC (presumably a stand-up display
since it has identical info on both sides). One sheet of 156 counters
which have a building-looking symbol on half ad a “PR” on the other
half, divided equally between the colors. One rulebook (16 pgs). 

Looks to be a product management game, instead of a resource management
game. A few tables for determining production and a few for maybe value
or growth. Some of the record keeping looks to be done in secret. 

SGB-16 Alexander’s Triumph ( ) ( )

SGB-17 La Bataille De La Ezo (1986) (6800)

Two mapsheets (one normal and the other 11x17”), 504 counters, three
PAC’s (two identical), one pad of ship record sheets and one 48-pg
rulebook with a nice textured cover. 

This is a hypothetical game covering a conflict between the USA and
Japan in 1868-69. The rather fanciful box cover depicts Gen. Custer
commanding Confederate troops (!) fighting with gattling guns against
Japanese troops while both US and Japanese steamships battle it out in
the harbor to the rear! 

The full-sized map represents a peninsula with a city on an island
connected by a causeway with a fort nearby. Sparse roads cover the area.
The ocean is dived into separate sea zones. The smaller map is
completely water and is used for the naval portion of the
game-presumably tactical sea battles. 

The rules are divided into two sections-ground and naval combat. I can
discern no unit sizes or turn lengths at all. Most everything about this
game is in Japanese, including most of the counters. 

Todd Davis - Jan 12, 2005 11:39 pm (#369 Total: 400)  
CSU-reprinting old, oop games for fun and profit! Next 
up-John Hill's Jerusalem! in January 2005 Currently 
translating Masahiro Yamazaki's "War for the Motherland 
2ed" into Gamespeak. Fall of Tobruk reprint of old CGC 
game: $29.00 	 

SGB-18 Dreadnaught (198) (3800)

Subtitled “Return to the Dreadnoughts Age!”

Two half-sized maps of all-blue, large hex water terrain. Two
countersheets (308) with Panzerblitz-sized counters. Two identical
single-sided PAC with 8 small charts each. A rulebook (28 pgs) with 8
scenarios ranging from 1917 to 1924 (with a SF one in 3325 (not
kidding!). The rules only look to be about 5-6 pages long. 

From what I have been told, this is an extremely popular game I Japan.
The auction prices are all rather high, even for punched games. This
might have something to do with the easy rules and only a few charts.
Each counter has 6 numbers and they are backprinted. The back side has
two numbers reduced by one vs. the unit’s front side. There is unit
facing and maybe a line movement rule. No record keeping or markers. 

SGB-19 Return to Europe (1986) (6800)

RTE includes two mapsheets, 1008 counters, 5 PAC, a 32 pg rulebook, a 16
pg scenario book and 24 pg ‘history booklet. RTE also has a very
dramatic cover, with German jets (that look like USAF 104s) intercepting
US ‘Flying Wing’ bombers and an M48 Patton tank moving towards a dead
Panther V while being attacked by German helicopter gunship missiles in
Trafalgar Square below Big Ben. Good stuff! 

Most of the comments in RS/BC are applicable here. The maps stretch from
Casablanca to Afghanistan and a ways into the USSR. I didn’t know that
Iceland was north of England!! The maps for RTE and RS/BC do NOT mate
up. They are close, but not match. In the ‘history’ of RTE, Europe has
been conquered by the Germans, and the USA is coming to save the day
(again). Europe has been broken up into many minor provinces with
Germanic sounding names and spellings, including many of their own
combat units. Supply once again rules the day as many of RTE’s charts
and tables look to deal with the gaining and spending of supply points. 

I cannot say for sure if RS/BC and RTE use the same game system, but
since they are a ‘Trilogy’, I would assume they do. 

SGB-20 Op. Winter Storm (1986) (5,800) One mapsheet, 504 counters, two
identical PACs, one 24-pg rule/scenario booklet (3 scenarios), and one
Historical Softbound book entitled “Photographic Series of the East
Front-Operation Winter Storm” (72-pg) (1,800). The historical softbound
appears to have been available separately, but I have three copies of
this game and they both came with this item. 

Unit scales are infantry divisions, armored brigades/regiments and
Soviet Mechanized Corps. Losses are handled by steps with extra
Kampfgruppen for the Germans. The map stretches from Rostov-na-Donau to
Stalingrad and from Kotelnikovo to north of Millerovo. Each turn is four
days and covers Nov. 19th thru Jan. 21st. Supply is tracked by point for
individual armies. 

SGB-21 Escort Fleet (1986) (4800)

Subtitled “Battle of Indian Ocean 1948-1950.”

There is one map, stretching from Manilla in the Philippines to Bombay,
India. The 504 counters represent only two basic things: ships and fuel
points. There are six PACs (four of which are two sets of identical
ones) and a 48 pg rulebook. 

The last of the Red Sun/Black Cross trilogy, this game adds the Japanese
Achilles heel--oil. One quarter of the entire games’ counters represent
either transports or submarines. There are no ground or aircraft present
whatsoever. If this game were combined with its brothers, then there are
plenty of options for introducing these units to the map. 

Todd Davis  - Jan 12, 2005 11:43 pm (#370 Total: 400)  
CSU-reprinting old, oop games for fun and profit! Next 
up-John Hill's Jerusalem! in January 2005 Currently 
translating Masahiro Yamazaki's "War for the Motherland 
2ed" into Gamespeak. Fall of Tobruk reprint of old CGC 
game: $29.00 	 

SGB-22 Operation Rainbow (1986) (6800)

Subtitled both “Pacific War in Another World” and “From Surprise Attack
on Pearl Harbor by US Navy to Decisive Battle of Marshall”. The box
cover has a dramatic picture of the Japanese battleship Yamato slowly
turning on its side and billowing smoke while US dive bombers fly
overhead ala the USS Arizona. An eye-grabber indeed! 

There are four maps in this game, making it the largest AT game
size-wise. The maps stretch from Calgary, Canada to Tienching, China and
from Attu in the Aleutian Islands to Tahiti in the Society Islands at a
scale of 100km per hex. There are 756 counters, ranging from US and
Japanese divisions to Chinese and Russian Corps. Even the Germans are
represented by the 5th Light and 15th Panzer divisions! There are four
PACs (two sets of two identical), some representing task force boxes and
the others charts and tables (of which there are many). There is a 32-pg
‘History’ booklet, along with a 40-pg rulebook. 

The game itself has 26 pgs of actual rules and nine scenarios. Turns are
ten days (three per month) and lasts from Dec. of 41 through August of
42. The game is decided by Victory Points, which are accrued by
ownership of geographic objectives and multiplied by the current value
for the turn (VPs x5 early on and going to only x1 starting about
halfway through the game). Plane counters are of the ‘change’ variety,
while capital ships are individual and smaller vessels are grouped
together. 

This has apparently always been a popular title in Japan and commands
quite a good price over there (20,000+ JPYN) for mint copies. 

SGB-23 The Battle of Bautzen (1987) (1987)

Subtitled “Napoleon vs. Wittgenstein, 20-21 May 1813.”

The Battle of Bautzen has one 17x22” map, 252 counters, two PAC
(identical) and a 16 pg rulebook. 

BoB looks very much like a NAW system game with some changes to the
combat rules. The counters have three numbers-attack, defense (?) and
movement. Leaders have two numbers, similar in placement to NAW games.
The CRT is the biggest change however. It uses a 2-12 roll and the
results are far more deadly to both sides. There are some morale results
as well. Overall, a very simple-looking game on a totally neglected
battle. 

SBG-24 Seventh Armored Division (1987) (4800)

Subtitled “Self Defense Force Series-01” and “Red Typhoon ‘95”.

One mapsheet, 504 counters, four PACs (two identical), a Series Rulebook
(12 pgs) and an Exclusive Rulebook (24 pgs). There looks to be one basic
scenario only. 

Unit sizes range from platoon thru company for the Japanese, with
exclusively battalions for the Soviets. Turns are 6 hours and run the
first seven days of the invasion (28). 

SGB-25 Northern Army (1987) (4800)

Subtitled “Self Defense Force Series-02” and “The Soviet Direct
Aggression at Ishikari Bay”.

One and a half maps, 504 counters, four PACs (two identical), a Series
Rulebook (12 pgs) and an Exclusive Rulebook (24 pgs). There looks to be
two scenarios. 

Unit sizes are companies for the Japanese and battalions with some
companies for the Soviets. Turns are 6 hours and run the first seven
days of the invasion (28). 

SGB-26 Fifth Division (1987) (4800)

Subtitled “Self Defense Force Series-03” and “Soviet comming from our
Lost Territory”. 

One map, 504 counters, four PACs, a Series Rulebook (12 pgs) and an
Exclusive Rulebook (32 pgs). There looks to be two scenarios. 

Unit sizes are companies for the Japanese and US units, while the
Soviets are all battalions. Turns are six hours, but the game may run
for 13 days now. 

SGB-27 Sun of Austerlitz (1987) (4800)

Subtitled “Napoleon vs. Kutusov 2 December 1805”

One half-sized map, 252 counters, 2 identical PAC, one rulebook (24 pgs)
of which only 11 pages are actual rules. Looks to be one scenario. 

Unit sizes seem to be regiments with hourly turns. No map scale given.
Combat units look to have “combat-morale-movement” numbers. The CRT has
several results that looks morale related and not just step losses.
Units have reduced-strength sides and there are ‘D’ markers. 

SPORTS AND ADVENTURE SERIES

These apparently were designed to appeal to a wider audience. Simpler in
rules and information, they are still wargames.

#3 Heliborne Tactics Game

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