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VECTOR 3

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
3/79Greg Costikyan & Tom GouldJohn Butterfield, Greg Costikyan,
Phil Kosnett & Dave Werden		C
3-D Newtonian space combat game emphasizing technological development. Space Capsule #3.

VERACRUZ

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
7/77Rich BergRich Berg & Joe BalkoskiM, BBx
S&T 63. The Mexican-American War.

VICTORY IN THE WEST SERIES

Created by Joe Balkoski.
A series of WWII games on a battalion/regiment/brigade level, dealing with battles between the Nazis and Western Allies (not necessarily on the Western Front). The game system is a derivation of OPERATION TYPHOON's system. The series includes OPERATION GRENADE, PATTON'S THIRD ARMY and SICILY.

VIKING

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
2/75John YoungTom WalczykBBx
Part of PRESTAGS package. Medieval tactics.

VON HINDENBURG IN POLAND

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
10/78Anthony BeaversAnthony Beavers, Brad Hessel & Tom HamiltonF
Part of the GREAT WAR IN THE EAST Quad. The Warsaw-Lodz campaign of 1914.

VOYAGE OF THE BMS PANDORA

DATEDESIGN & DEVELOPMENTSTATES
1/81John ButterfieldM, 1ABx
Ares 6. Solitaire paragraph-system game of interstellar explortion; a landmark game in the development of solitaire systems.

WACHT AM RHEIN

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
2/77Jim DunniganJay Nelson & Joe Balkoski2BBx, 4ABx
A monster game of the Bulge. Dunnigan's 3rd Bulge game.

WAGRAM

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
9/75Irad HardyIrad Hardy & Frank DavisF
Part of NAPOLEON AT WAR Quad.

WAGRAM MINIATURES SET

DATESTATES
11/77boxed set of lead figures
You could replace the pieces for Wagram with these figures.

WAR BETWEEN THE STATES

DATEDESIGN & DEVELOPMENTSTATES
4/77Irad Hardy2BBx, 4ABx
Monster game of the Civil War on a strategic scale.

WAR IN EUROPE

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
10/76Jim DunniganIrad Hardy, Tom Walczyk, Stephen Bettum & Ed Curran2BBx, 4ABx
The definitive monster game.

WAR IN EUROPE MODULE I

see FIRST WORLD WAR.

WAR IN THE EAST (1st Edition)

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
4/74Jim DunniganStephen Bettum, Oktay Oztunali, Tom Walczyk,
Ed Curran & Ed Hoffman		BBx

WAR IN THE EAST (2nd Edition)

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
9/76 Jim DunniganStephen Bettum, Oktay Oztunali, Tom Walczyk,
Ed Curran & Ed Hoffman		BBx, 4ABx?
Part of WAR IN EUROPE, but also sold separately.

WAR IN THE ICE

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
1/79Phil KosnettPhil KosnettABx
Two scenarios, one dealing with warfare for Antarctic resources, the other a war against alien invaders in Antarctica.

WAR IN THE PACIFIC

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
5/78Jim Dunnigan, Irad Hardy,
Tom Walczyk and Ed Curran		Tom Walczyk & John Kallaugher2BBx, 4ABx

WAR IN THE WEST

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
4/76Jim DunniganIrad Hardy, Tom Walczyk,
Stephen Bettum & Ed Curran		BBx, 4ABx?
Part of WAR IN EUROPE, but also sold separately.

WAR OF THE RING

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
11/77Rich Berg & Howie BaraschBrad Hessel & Eric GoldbergBBx, MABx*, ABx
Part of Middle Earth Trilogy. Strategic game of the struggle between Mordor and the Free Peoples.
There are two versions of the MABx edition: one with the Tim Kirk cover, and one a movie tie-in with the Baskhi film.

WAVRE

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
9/76Kevin ZuckerJay NelsonF
Part of NAPOLEON'S LAST BATTLES Quad. Napoleon fights the Prussians again after they regroup.

WELLINGTON'S VICTORY

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
11/76Frank DavisFred Georgian, Tom Kassel, Pete Bennett, Joe Balkoski, & Ron Toelke2BBx, 4ABx

WEST WALL QUAD

DATESYSTEM DESIGNSTATES
2/76Kip AllenBBx
Includes ARNHEM, BASTOGNE (II), HURTGEN FOREST, and REMAGEN. Four Western Front battles from World War II.

WILDERNESS, THE BATTLE OF THE

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
12/75Linda MoscaEd Curran & Linda MoscaF
Part of the BLUE & GREY QUAD 2.

WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
11/72John YoungPhil Orbanes & William SullivanWBxNT, WBx, BBx

WILSON'S CREEK

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
5/80Richard WrightTom HudsonM, 1ABx
S&T 80.
Part of the Great Battles of the American Civil War series (number 3).

WINTER WAR

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
7/72James GoffSteve Bettum & Phil OrbanesM, WBxNT, WBx, BBx
S&T 33.
The Russo-Finish War, and very nicely done.

WOLFPACK

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
11/74Jim DunniganEd Curran & Frank DavisBBx
S&T 47.
Solo game of U-Boat raiding on Allied shipping; nicknamed "Wolfchit."

WORLDKILLER

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
3/80Redmond SimonsenEric GoldbergM, 1ABx
Abysmal starship-to-starship combat game; published in the Ares 1.

WORLD WAR I

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
7/75Jim DunniganKip AllenM, F, C
S&T 51. "C" edition labelled "Moments in Conflict #4".
Very simple game of the Great War; provides a real sense of throwing an entire generation into the abbatoir of war with no discernable motion on the front.

WORLD WAR II

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
9/73Jim DunniganKip Allen & John YoungBBx
The European Theater; popular in its day, but rather mechanistic.

WORLD WAR 3

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
12/74Jim DunniganKip Allen, Ed Curran & Steve BettumBBx, MABx
"Near future" (then) war with the Commies.

WRECK OF THE PANDORA

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
5/80Jim DunniganDave RitchieM, 1ABx
Ares 2. Solitaire game of the wreck of an interstellar Biological Survey Mission ship.

WURZBURG

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
7/75Jim DunniganJay Nelson, Ed Curran,
Irad Hardy & Howie Barasch		F
Part of the MODERN BATTLES QUAD.

YEAR OF THE RAT

DATEDESIGN & DEVELOPMENTSTATES
11/72Jim Dunnigan & John PradosM, WBxNT, WBx, BBx
S&T 35. Vietnam in 1972.

YEOMAN

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
2/75John YoungTom WalczykBBx
Part of PRESTAGS. Late Medieval tactics.

YUGOSLAVIA

DATEDESIGNERDEVELOPERSTATES
7/77Phil KosnettJim Dunnigan & Phil KosnettF
Part of MODERN BATTLES QUAD 2. Soviet invasion post-Tito.
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