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A wargame is a simulation that recreates a conflict or battle that actually took place, or sometimes an alternate-history scenario based on plausible premises. Unlike a traditional board game, where the theme serves mainly as a backdrop, a wargame is... A wargame is a simulation that recreates a conflict or battle that actually took place, or sometimes... Read more

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Diex Aie - Pack de 3 planches de pions

From 14 years old less than 30mn 2 players

Component of the DIEX AÏE 2 game.

Diex Aïe 2 - Upgrade Kit

English From 14 years old 30mn to 1h 2 players

This kit is intended for owners of the first version of DIEX AÏE and who would like to have the new components introduced with DIEX AÏE 2.

Diex Aïe 2 - Kit de Mise à Jour

French From 14 years old 30mn to 1h 2 players

This kit is intended for owners of the first version of DIEX AÏE and who would like to have the new components introduced with DIEX AÏE 2.

Hill of Doves

English From 14 years old 3 to 4h 1 player

Hill of Doves is a solitaire boardgame in which the player controls An Imperial British Army at war with a programmed non-player Transvaal Republican Army in 1881.

Strategy & Tactics Quarterly 17 - Napoleon’s Art of Battle

English From 14 years old

A magazine that examines the great Napoleonic battles before his accession to power.

Days of Decision III

English From 14 years old 4h and more 2 to 8 players

Days of Decision III (DoD) is a complete board-game of Global politics from 1936 ~ 1946 that can be played stand-alone or with World in Flames.
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Combat! 2: From D-Day to V-E Day Campaign Expansion

English From 14 years old 3 to 4h 1 player

Combat! 2 is an expansion module for Combat! This module contains new scenarios, new rules and a new map.

Vietnam: 1965-1975

English From 14 years old 3 to 4h 2 players

Vietnam: 1965-1975 is a reprint, expanded and revamped of the classic 80s game.
5/5

Barbarossa: Army Group Center, 1941 (2nd Edition)

English From 14 years old 2 to 3h 2 to 4 players

This is one of a very popular series of games from GMT covering the first months of the invasion of the USSR; units are battalions through divisions, hexes are about 5 miles, and turns are two days. This box is the second edition of this acclaimed title.

The American Revolution (Ziplock)

English From 14 years old 4h and more 2 players

The American Revolution (Ziplock) is a wargame originally published in the magazine Strategy & Tactics n°270.

Operation Neptune

English From 14 years old 4h and more 2 players

Operation Neptune gives insight into the British Army assault of the River Seine at Vernon, France in late August, 1944.

Warfighter: Multi-Era - Sitrep and Skill Cards

From 14 years old 30mn to 1h 1 to 6 players

This expansion which reintroduces Situation / Sitrep cards into the game, with 45 Sitrep and 11 Skill cards for Modern Daylight, Modern Shadow War, Modern PMC, WWII Europe, WWII Pacific.
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ASL - Hollow Legions 3rd Edition

English From 14 years old 3 to 4h 2 players

HOLLOW LEGIONS includes a whopping 53 scenarios for ASL.

Moravian Sun

English From 14 years old 2 players

This game, designed by Enrico Acerbi, covers the masterpiece battle fought and won by Napoleon against the hopes of the III Coalition.

Victory

English From 14 years old

Victory is a fast-paced strategy game of World War 2 combat using the popular Columbia Block System where each unit is facing the player, but not the opponent!
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Wing Leader: Legends 1937-1945

English From 14 years old 2 players

Wing Leader: Legends 1937-1945 is the fourth expansion for GMT’s Wing Leader system. In Legends, we seek to cap the Wing Leader game system by bringing together previous games and expansions in a series of crossover scenarios.

ASL - Onslaught to Orsha 2 : Opération Bagration

English From 14 years old 3 to 4h 1 to 2 players

ASL - Onslaught to Orsha 2: Operation Bagration is a historical wargame covering Operation Bagration.

Panzers Last Stand

English From 14 years old 4h and more 2 players

Panzers Last Stand is a Battalion Combat Series game depicting the Axis relief operations of Budapest from January to March 1945 in what became Germany's last major offensives in the war.

NUTS! The Battle of the Bulge Card Game

English From 14 years old 1 to 2h 2 to 4 players

NUTS!:The Battle of the Bulge is a card game for two, three or four players recreating the famous World War II battle (16-31 Dec. 1944) in which the German Army mounted a surprise attack on the thin U.S. forces deployed in the Ardennes.

Mini Game Series - Hougoumont: Key to Waterloo

English From 14 years old 1 to 2h 2 players

Will the Allied army hold out against the French in Hougoumont farmstead?
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Mini Game Series - Little Round Top: Flank Attack at Gettysburg

English From 14 years old 1 to 2h 2 players

Union army tries to hold its position on a hillock against Confederate assaults.
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Mini Games Series - Hornet's Nest: Buying Time at Shiloh

English From 14 years old

The Confederate army attacks the Union camp in forested terrain.

Across Suez: Battle of the Chinese Farm

English From 14 years old 1 to 2h 2 players

Refight the pivotal battle of the Yom Kippur war - as either side!

Bulge: The Battle for the Ardennes

English From 14 years old 4h and more 2 players

One of the most famous battles of World War II is re-created in this fast paced game.

Counter Clipper Deluxe - Model 2mm

This tool is the missing piece in your veteran wargamer collection. Thanks to it, you can now round the corners of your tokens. This model allows a cut in a 2mm radius.
5/5

Counter Clipper Deluxe - Model 2,5mm

This tool is the missing piece in your veteran wargamer collection. Thanks to it, you can now round the corners of your tokens. This model allows a cut in a 2,5mm radius.

Le Vol de L’Aigle

English From 14 years old 4h and more 3 to 10 players

Le Vol de l’Aigle (Flight of the Eagle ) is a game simulating Napoleonic era campaigns.

The Army of the Heartland

English From 14 years old 4h and more 2 players

In The Army of the Heartland relive little known battles of the American Civil War from Kentucky, Tennessee and northern Georgia between 1861 and 1863.

Wing Leader: Supremacy 2nd Edition Update Kit

English From 14 years old

This is an update pack for your first printing of Wing Leader: Supremacy. This includes major updates to the original version, including brand new scenarios and data cards.

Tank Duel - Tank Pack n°1

English From 14 years old 1 to 8 players

Tank Duel Tank Pack #1 adds 8 new tanks to the popular Tank Duel system.

Tank Duel - North Africa Expansion

English From 14 years old 2 to 3h 1 to 8 players

Tank Duel Expansion #1: North Africa takes the popular Tank Duel system to the desert! North Africa introduces new desert terrain and rules for dust, deep sand, armored cars, heat and haze, and more. British and Italian tanks join the fight, alongside even more German AFVs:

Kharkov Battles: Before & After Fall Blau

English From 14 years old 4h and more 2 players

Kharkov Battles uses the Fall Blau basic rules to cover the Second & Third Battles of Kharkov.

Soldiers In Postmen's Uniform

English From 14 years old 1 to 2h 1 player

"Soldiers in Postmen's Uniforms" is a skirmish-level solitaire wargame that takes place in the Free City of Danzig on the first day of the Second World War.

Keep Up The Fire! The Boxer Rebellion

English From 14 years old 1 to 2h 1 player

A refreshed deluxe version of KEEP OF THE FIRE! Solitaire game by John Welch on the Boxer Rebellion 1900

Tarawa 1943

English From 14 years old 30mn to 1h 1 player

Tarawa 1943 is a single player card game about the invasion of Japanese controlled Tarawa by the 2nd Marine Division.

Monty's Gamble: Market Garden

English From 14 years old 3 to 4h 2 players

Monty's Gamble: Market Garden is a reprinting of MMP’s highly acclaimed area movement game on Operation Market Garden simulating the Allied attack in Holland and the German response in 1944.
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Indian Ocean Region

English From 14 years old 2 to 3h 1 to 3 players

The game Indian Ocean Region enables participants to play out possible future conflicts, circa 2025, from their political beginnings to military endings with the same game mechanics as used in the South China Sea game.
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Battle Cry of Freedom

English From 14 years old 3 to 4h 2 players

This two-player card game represents the American Civil War, 1861-1865, in the theaters of war east of the Mississippi River.

Land Without End: The Barbarossa Campaign, 1941

English From 14 years old 4h and more 2 players

Land Without End: The Barbarossa Campaign, 1941 is a two-player, low-to-intermediate complexity, strategic-level simulation of the German attempt to conquer the Soviet Union in 1941.
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Operation Kremlin

English From 14 years old 1 to 2h 2 players

What if Hitler decided to try again for Moscow during the summer of 1942 rather than plunging the Wehrmacht deep into the Caucasus and Stalingrad as he did historically? Operation Kremlin uses the corps-army level units that were historically available for this campaign.

Nine Navies War

English From 14 years old 1 to 2h 2 players

Game of WWI alternate history naval conflict with battleships based in the seas around Europe, the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, using a derivation of the classic Avalon Hill "War at Sea (Second Edition)," "Victory in the Pacific" system.

The Forgotten War: Korea

English From 14 years old 4h and more 2 players

The Forgotten War includes three battle games of the Korean War (1950-1951).
5/5

Waterloo et Les Quatre-Bras 1815

French From 12 years old 3 to 4h 2 to 3 players

Les Quatre-Bras and Waterloo 1815 is a complete game in the Jours de Gloire series. It covers the battles which occurred on June 16th and 18th, during Napoléon’s offensive in Belgium against the armies of Wellington and Blücher.
5/5

Heart of Darkness

English From 14 years old 4h and more 1 to 5 players

This is a game of adventure and exploration where you, together with five other players, venture into deepest Africa. The time period is mid-19th century and you start your expedition at one of the six Ports of Entry.

Captain's Sea

English From 14 years old 4h and more 2 players

Captain's Sea will take you back to the most famous battles of the American frigates against the English and French navies between 1799 and 1815.

Beyond the Urals

English From 14 years old 4h and more 2 players

Beyond the Urals is a two-player strategic-level simulation of a campaign that might-have-been in Russia during World War II. Beyond the Urals postulates that the Germans had defeated the Red Army in their 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, but failed to force the capitulation of the Soviet Union itself.

ASL Action Pack 17 - Oktoberfest XXV

English From 14 years old

This pack contains 16 new scenarios for ASL.

Counter Clipper Deluxe - Model 3mm

This tool is the missing piece in your veteran wargamer collection. Thanks to it, you can now round the corners of your tokens. This model allows a cut in a 3mm radius.
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The Wargame: definition and how it differs from a traditional board game

A wargame is a simulation that recreates a conflict or battle that actually took place, or sometimes an alternate-history scenario based on plausible premises. Unlike a traditional board game, where the theme serves mainly as a backdrop, a wargame is based on a map, units differentiated by their role (infantry, armoured vehicles, artillery, ships) and rules that model real-world factors: terrain, logistics, morale, etc. This rigour sets it apart from games with a military theme but abstract mechanics, such as Risk, where combat boils down to a roll of the dice without taking the context into account. Titles such as Axis & Allies straddle the line between the two worlds: more detailed than a standard board game, yet simplified compared to a highly specialised wargame. The genre features several publishers renowned for the rigour of their simulations, including GMT Games, Avalon Hill, Multi-Man Publishing and Compass Games.

Why play a historical game?

Playing a wargame allows you to engage with a conflict actively rather than merely as a historical account. Players make strategic or tactical decisions and can explore alternatives to those taken by real-life military leaders, which gives the game a reflective dimension regarding the unfolding of events. Fans of the genre appreciate the depth of the rules, the need to anticipate the consequences of every decision, and the fidelity to the constraints of the period being simulated: supply lines, weather and military doctrine. Historical wargames appeal both to history enthusiasts wishing to deepen their knowledge and to players seeking demanding strategic challenges, with a single game session potentially lasting several hours or even spanning multiple sessions.

Wargames for all historical periods

The richness of the genre also lies in the breadth of periods covered. Our catalogue allows you to explore the entire spectrum of military history: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the 17th and 18th centuries, the 19th century, the First World War, the Second World War and modern warfare. Some games also feature imaginary conflicts, set in science-fiction or fantasy worlds, applying the same simulation principles to fictional battles. This diversity means every player can find a period that particularly interests them, whether it be ancient phalanxes, Napoleonic cavalry charges or Second World War armoured vehicles.

From major series to niche titles

Philibert’s catalogue includes both flagship series and more niche titles. Among the must-haves are Advanced Squad Leader (ASL), the benchmark for tactical combat in the Second World War, Axis & Allies, Commands & Colors and its family-friendly version Mémoire 44, as well as Panzer Grenadier and Conflict of Heroes. Alongside these widely recognised titles, the catalogue offers more specialised games, designed for experienced players or focusing on specific themes: Der Weltkrieg, La Bataille, Lace Wars, Great Statesmen, COIN, Wing Leader, Next War and Warfighter. For those new to the genre, Mémoire 44, Axis & Allies or the Folio and Mini series from Decision Games are excellent starting points, thanks to their accessible rules and shorter games.

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