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Compass Games will be hosting our Fall5 convention. Status

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We have secured a special group rate for all attendees which includes SAN FRANCISCO complimentary breakfast. You will be taking part in the action-packed venue with1 gaming held 1 under one roof which includes: Monster games & open gaming, Designer hosted playtest sessions, 80 Euro games, Tournament play, seminars, special attendee discounts, and play games from any publishers. More information is on our website MESA www.compassgames.com/expo Hotel Phone Number: (203) 440-9600 2 5 City

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Special Price: $90.00

7 Countersheet 4 Hand-Drawn Mounted Maps (with HUGE 1 ½” hexes) 192 Playing Cards 1 Rule Book 1 Campaign Book 1 Lore Booklet 6 Dual-Layered Kingdom Playmats 3 Cardstock Player Aids 2 Mounted Displays

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3 game maps (a historComplexity: Medium ically accurate map of the Arnhem Bridge), 1 Solitaire: High Designed specifically for solitaire 11” by 17” map 6 counter sheets play 2 Decks of Playing Cards Time Scale: 30-90 seconds per turn (52 cards for Allied, 50 Map Scale: 10 yards per hex cards for German) Unit Scale: Single man per count1 Display Mat er; man-to-man combat 1 Impulse/Turn Track Players: One 1 Player Aid Card Playing Time: 3-5 hours per 1 Rulebook scenario

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1 Rule Book & Play Book 3 Maps 7 Counter Sheets 2 identical Charts & Tables Booklets 2 identical sets of Sequences Cards 8 TO&E Cards 1 WP Tracks Cards 1 NATO Tracks Card 2 WP Planning Cards 1 NATO HQ Tracks Card 3 Pool Cards

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© 2020 Compass Games Design: Edward Castronova Artwork: Ilya Kudriashov

Preorder Price: $59.00 Mid 2025

3 maps 2 Countersheets Standard Rules booklet Special Rules booklet 8 double-sided PACs

Complexity: Medium Time Scale: 3-4 days per turn Map Scale: Abstract Unit Scale: Individual tank, weapon systems, crew members, ammo rounds Players: 1 (with option for 2 or more)

Solitaire: Designed for Solitaire Play Playing Time: 2-3 hours

Bismarck

Bismarck: The Last Battle by Petros Sorilos is a compact, strategic-level solitaire game covering the last 5 days of operations of the most feard German battleship in WWII. This game utilizes a unique and strategic card-driven battle system revolving around Retail Price: $59.00 Bismarck's operations.

Complexity: Medium Map Scale: 1 hex = 300 yards across Unit Scale: Brigades, with some regiments Time Scale: 1 turn = 60 to 90 minutes depending on the day Players: 1-2, best with two

Solitaire: Medium

Playing Time: 1 to 3 hours (scenarios), 5 to 8 hours

Brief Border Wars 2

Complexity: Medium Map Scale: Area map Unit Scale: Carriers, Battleships, Battlecruisers, Destroyers, Airplanes Time Scale: Single Day Turn with multiple cards plays per player Players: one

Solitaire: Designed for Solitaire Play Playing Time: 1 to 2 hours

Blowout games

1 Mounted Map 1 Player mat 2 Countersheets 54 Game Cards Player Aid Card Rules Booklet

Retail Price 40-70% off

- Cargo Express $69.00 $22.00 Brief Border Wars 2 by Brian Train is - Coalition $69.00 $20.00 the second set of four small operational - Cradle of Civilization $89.00 $30.00 level games on short border conflicts. The - Dawn of Empire $55.00 $15.00 game system uses a card-driven system - Festung Europa $79.00 $20.00 - Fornvo 1495 $69.00 $20.00 first introduced in Brief Border Wars that $85.00 $20.00 models the chaotic, stop-and-start nature of - Korea Fire and Ice Late Unpleastness $89.00 $20.00 these impromptu wars. - Lebensraum $99.00 $20.00 - Little Land $129.00 $30.00 Retail Price: $65.00 Late 2025 - Maori $79.00 $20.00 Preorder Price: $54.00 - Operation Skorpion $55.00 $25.00 Complexity: Medium - Once We Moved Like the Wind $69.00 $20.00 $59.00 $25.00 Time Scale: variable (1 day to 1 week per - Ostkrieg Prelude to Rebellion $109.00 $20.00 turn) 4 Maps Triumph of The Will $69.00 $20.00 Map Scale: variable (area movement) 1 Countersheet - Battle of Armageddon $69.00 $35.00 Unit Scale: variable (paramilitary “groups” 1 PAC - Sniper Kill Comfirmed $69.00 $20.00 to divisions) - Sovereign of The Seas $110.00 $60.00 1 deck Players: 1-2 (best with 2) - Napoleon’s Imperium $159.00 $70.00 1 system rules - Paper War 81,82,84,85, $46.95 $20.00 4 exclusive rules Solitaire: Medium 86,87,88,90,91,94,95 Playing Time: 1-2 hours each booklets $45.00 - Stalin's World War III $89.00

Carrier Battle: Philippine Sea

Chaco

Chaco by Frank Chadwick & Marc W. Carrier Battle: Philippine Miller is an updated yet faithful remake Sea by Jonathan Southard of the Game Designers’ Workshop game is a solitaire simulation of the released in 1973. Covering the Chaco War largest carrier battle in history, fought between Bolivia and Paraguay at fought during the invasion of the Strategic/Operational level, Retail Price: $69.00 Saipan (June, 1944). As the Retail Price: $65.00 U.S. commander, you maneuver Holiday Price: $45.00 Preorder Price: $52.00 1 Mounted Map your task forces and conduct air Complexity: High 2 counter sheets searches in a tension-packed Complexity: Medium Map Scale: 33 nmi per hex 1 Player Aid Chart contest to find the Japanese Unit Scale: Individual capital Time Scale: 6 Months per 2 Composite Charts carriers before they locate and ships; groups of smaller ships; turn 1 Rulebook attack yours. Map Scale: 1 hex = 10 miles 8-12 planes per unit. Unit Scale: Company to Corps Time Scale: 20 minutes per level phase, 80 minutes per full Playing time: Up to 6 hours turn. 2026 1 Mounted Map Players: 1-2 Solitaire: Medium 4 Countersheets Players: 2-3 Rulebook and Table Booklet Solitaire: Designed for Solitaire Play Multiple PACs

Desert Blitzkrieg

Desert Blitzkrieg by Michael Vitale is a treatment of the main struggle between the Axis represented by Rommel and the Afrika Korps versus the British and their Commonwealth Allies from April 1941 to December 1942.

Preorder Price: $54.00 190 counters 34x22 Mounted map area 22 Cards Summary of play / Summary of Combat card (2 of these) Battle Board (about 6x9) Rules booklet Examples of Play booklet

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Complexity: 3-4 Map Scale: It's 'Point-to-Point' game. Covers the same 'distance' as old Avalon Hill 'Afrika Korps'. Aghelia to El Alamein. Time Scale: Monthly turns Unit Scale: Regimental equivalents with Divisional Integrity a key feature Players: 2

Solitaire: Medium

Playing Time: Full Game 10+ hours; Short Game 2 1/2 - 3 hours

Desert Generals

Retail Price: $65.00

Air & Armor: Operational Armored Warfare in Europe, Designer Signature Edition by Bruce Maxwell marks the return of one of the most highly rated wargames on modern warfare ever published. Air & Armor is a company level simulation of a Hypothetical Soviet attack on West Germany in the mid-1980s. This Special Price: $70.00 new edition is lovingly recreated with new map artwork, new unit counters, Complexity: Medium new unit values and updated rules. Map Scale: 1 Mile/hex Unit Scale: Companies & Battalions Time Scale: 1 Turn = 2 Hours 2 22" x 34" Maps 5 Countersheets Players: 2-7 players 2 Player Charts & Tables Playing Time: 3 - 8 hours Booklets based on Scenario 5 TO&E Displays Solitaire: High Basic Game Rules Booklet (Solitaire Rules) Advanced Game Rules Booklet

Atlantic Sentinels

American Tank Ace

American Tank Ace by Gregory M Smith is a solitaire tank combat game set in WW2, where the player commands one of 9 models of an M4 Sherman tank or an M26 Pershing.

Sepcial Price: $45.00

Retail Price: $79.00

3 Maps 9 Countersheets 1 Rulebook 1 Scenario Book 8 Player Aids

Playing Time: 2-40+ Hours

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Air & Armor: V Corps, Tactical Armored Warfare in Europe by Bruce Maxwell is the second game in the Air & Armor series. It is a highly realistic game system designed to simulate modern warfare at a grand tactical level.

Battle Hymn: Volume Two Shiloh and Bentonville by Eric Lee Smith is the sequel game release to Volume One and includes two complete games: Shiloh and Bentonville. Battle Hymn is the new brigade-level system based upon the latest research into Civil War combat.

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Complexity: High Map Scale: 300 yards per hex (Abstract on Operational Map) Time Scale: Variable, 1 turn = 4 hours or 1 day Unit Scale: Platoons and Companies Players: 2

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1 Rule 25 booklet 2 PACs 1 News Cycle Display Deck of Event Cards & Story Cards Wooden pieces for forces 1 countersheet 10 10 Complexity: Medium Time scale: Not specified, but approximately one year per turn, covering a 4 to 5 year conflict Social Media Track Players: 1-2 bestRebellion withPower 2 Track A B C

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Air and Armor

Guadalcanal Diary: The Battle for Henderson Field by James Stier allows you to recreate the Guadalcanal campaign on a tactical and operational level across land, sea, and air from the initial landings in August 1942 until Retail Price: $89.00 the end of November, when the Retail Price: $95.00 Japanese were all but finished. Preorder Price: $69.00 Status

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Complexity: High Time Scale: 1 Turn = 2 Hours Map Scale: 1 Mile/hex Unit Scale: Companies to Regiments Players: 1-11 players

Combat! Vol 3

Combat! Vol 3 Adam Starkweather is a solitaire game of man-to-man combat in World War Two. This is the third game in the series of Combat! games that use the same system. This game introduces the British Armed Forces into the system. Combat 3 is a Stand Alone game Retail Price: $139.00 Mid 2025

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Barbarians At The Gates

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Solitaire: High Compass Games (Solitaire Rules) PO Box 271 Cromwell, CT 06416 USA Playing Time: 3 to 12 hours based

Burning Banners by Christopher Moeller brings the rich tapestry of Kalar to life with a breathtaking fusion of immersive artwork and engaging gameplay that grows with your group.

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Preorder Price: $79.00

The above mentioned prices cannot be combined with any other offer.

Breakthrough Russia by Ernie Copley is a WWII strategy game that takes players back to the crucial period from the Summer of 1941 to the Summer of 1943 when the outcome of the war in the East hung in the balance. 2026 1 MOUNTED full-color map Retail Price: $69.00 sheet Preorder Price: $57.00 3 Countersheets Complexity: Low-Medium 2 double-sided setup sheets Time Scale: 1 Turn = 1 2 double-sided Play Aids Season 1 detailed Terrain Effects Map Scale: Appox 125 miles Chart Unit Scale: Corps and Armies 1 detailed Sequence of Play Players: 1-2 (with option for Card solitaire play 40 Variant cards (20 Axis, 20 Solitaire: Medium Soviet) Playing time: 1 hour +/- for 2 Resource tracks scenarios, 4 hours +/- for the Rulebook campaign Scenario book

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Retail Price: $95.00

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BLOWOUT PRICE: 40%-70% off retail price HOLIDAY PRICE: 35% off retail price. SPECIAL PRICE: 20%-30% off retail price.

Complexity: Medium 1 Mounted Map Map Scale: Point-to-point of Western Roman Empire 1 Rule & 1 Unit Scale: About 5-10 thousand troops playbook per CU 2 Distinct PACs Time Scale: +/- 10 years per turn 110 Strategy cards Players: 1-2 2.5 Countersheets Solitaire: Medium with rounded Playing Time: Multiple 2-hour scenarios, corners full campaign about 5 hours

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2040: An American Insurgency by Edward Castronova simulates a US civil war in the 21st century. In this 2-player, 3-hour game, the blue 90 team is the Federals, agents of the government in Washington. The red team is the Rebels, 80 militia 80 groups trying to seize control of states, highways, and cities. The conflict spreads across the entire Retail Price: $69.00 continental US, from Miami to Seattle Holiday Price: $45.00 and from Los Angeles to New York.

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When preordering games, you may provide your payment information so your credit card can be charged closer to the date of publication. . Checks and money orders are always welcome when you mail your order forms. MEXICO Preorder and direct sales through our website are important for Compass to continue to produce quality games. So please take advantage of our Blowout, Holiday, Special, and Preorder,pricing to receive substantial savings over retail prices. If you have any question you can always call Carolynne at 860-301-6527 or email at sales@compassgames.com Visit our website for more information about our games at compassgames.com Preorder can be placed on our website.

Holiday Price: $58.00

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Barbarians at the Gates, The Decline and Fall of the Western Roman Empire 337 - 476 by Kris Van Beurden (whose credits include Europe in Turmoil), is a card-driven game for two players set during the final century of the Western Roman Empire. Retail Price: $89.00

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Atlantic Sentinels by Greg M. Smith provides players with a host of decisions as they are assigned to provide protection to merchant convoys, typically ranging from 40 to 60 ships.

Retail Price: $69.00

Holiday Price: $45.00

1 Countersheet 10 Tank Display Mats 4 Player Aid Cards 2 Crew Status Displays 1 Mission logsheet 1 Rulebook

Retail Price: $69.00

Complexity: Medium Special Price: $52.00 Time Scale: Semi-abstract (Convoy escort missions, 2 per month) Map Scale: Abstract 1 Counter Sheet Unit Scale: Individual escorts, U-boats, 2 Tactical Displays merchant ships (when targeted) 3 PACs (double-sided) Players: One (with options for two) 3 PACs (single-sided)

Solitaire: Designed for Solitaire Play

Playing Time: 10-15 minutes (single mission) 6-8 hours (full career)

Blue Water Navy: The Pacific

Blue Water Navy - The Pacific by Stuart Tonge covers the action from the West coast of the USA over to Vietnam and is the sister game of Blue Water Navy, also by Compass which covers Europe. 2026

Retail Price: $109.00

Preorder Price: $80.00 Complexity: Medium Time Scale: Each turn = 2 days (each card play is one day) Map Scale: Each area represents 500 nautical miles square Unit Scale: Each counter represents 10 ships, 3 submarines, one squadron or regiment of air Number of Players:1- 2 2 maps Solitaire: Medium

Playing Time: 1-3 hours for scenarios and 8-12 hours per campaign game

2 countersheets 2 decks of 55 playing cards 8 double-sided PACs 1 rules booklet 1 scenario booklet

British Tank Ace

British Tank Ace: 1940-45 by Gregory M. Smith is a solitaire, tactical-level game that places you in command of a British tank during World War II in North Africa, Italy, and the European Theaters of Operation. Late 2025 Complexity: Medium Playing time: 10-15 minutes Retail Price: $69.00 (single mission), 4-5 hours (full Preorder Price: $52.00 career) 2 Countersheets Solitaire High; Designed 11 Tank Display Mats (double-sided, for 22 for solitaire play different tank models Players: One or more total) Map Scale: Abstract 11 Player Aid Cards Time Scale: Semi-abstract 1 Crew Status Display (individual missions, 8 missions Mat per month) 3 Battle Boards Unit Scale: Individual tanks, 3 Operational Displays crewmen, enemy vehicles, 1 Rules Booklet anti-tank guns, and ammo 1 Mission Logsheet

Combat! Vol 1 (2nd Printing)

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Breaking The Chains 2.0

Breaking the Chains (BtC) by John Gorkowski simulates a hypothetical future military conflict over the South China and East China Seas around the year 2021. Conflicting claims of sovereignty have roiled those “near seas” since the Retail Price: $69.00 Cold War.

Special Price: $54.00

Complexity: Medium Time Scale: Daily Turns subdivided into 4-hour “cycles” Map Scale: 70 nautical miles per hex Unit Scale: Individual aircraft carriers, 1 Mounted map pairs or triplets of smaller ships/subma1 rulebook rines; Air wings (25-75 aircraft); Land 2 reference cards battalions, regiments and divisions 1 political status track Players: 1 to several Approximately 440 Solitaire: Medium counters (5/8”) Playing Time: 2-20 hours depending on scenario

Burma

Burma, 1942-45 Bob Fowler is a remake of the original Game Designers Workshop design from 1976. An operational-scale game using brigades and battalions, play moves in stops and starts as supply and the monsoon may limit operations. Complexity: Medium Time Scale: 1 Turn = 1 Month Map Scale: 1 hex = 15 miles Unit Scale: Brigades, Butais and Battalions Players: 1-2

Solitaire: Medium

Playing time: 2 to 6 hours

2 maps 2 5/8 inch counter sheets 3 setup sheets 2 double-sided play aids Detailed sequence of play sheet 1 Rules Booklet 1 Scenario Booklet

Time Scale: 1 Turn = 1 Month Map Scale: Appox. 10 miles per hex Unit Scale: Battalions, Regiments, and Divisions Players: Two (suitable for solitaire play)

Solitaire: Medium

Playing time: 1 hour for scenarios, 4 hours for the full campaign

Retail Price: $55.00

Preorder Price: $42.00 1 Mounted game map 1 counter sheet (280 pieces) 4 Player Aid Cards 2 Order of Battle and Appearance Cards Rules Booklet

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Combat! Vol 2

Combat! Volume 1 by Ross Mortell is a solitaire game on man-to-man combat in the 20th century. The player will control friendly forces and attempt to complete a scenario against enemy forces that are controlled by the game system.

Combat! Volume 2 by Ross Mortell is an add-on module for Combat! You

Dog Boats

Eastern Front Operational Battles

must have Combat! to play this expansion. A fully structured campaign

game consisting of 6 'Chapters', 'Normandy', 'Pursuit', 'Hurtgen Forest', 'The Bulge', 'The Retail Price: $139.00 Siegfried Line' and 'Germany'. Retail Price: $139.00 Holiday Price: $90.00 Follow the fortunes of your Complexity: Medium squad from D-day to VE-day. Holiday Price: $90.00 6 game maps Time Scale: Abstracted dependent upon actions taken per round 3 Countersheets (5/8") but between 30 seconds and 2 minutes 4 1-inch Countersheets Complexity: Medium Map Scale: 10 yards per hex 2 Rulebooks & Scenario Books Time Scale: Abstracted Unit Scale: Single man – man-to-man combat 2 Pads 7 Displays/Charts dependent upon actions Players: 1 – Designed for solitaire play taken per round but between 30 seconds and 2 minutes Solitaire: Designed for Solitaire Play Map Scale: 10 yards per hex Playing Time: 2-6 hours dependent upon size of scenario 4 maps 4 5/8 inch countersheets Unit Scale: Single man – man-to-man combat Players: One – Designed specifically for solitaire play 2 1 inch countersheets 2 decks of cards Solitaire: Designed for Solitaire Play 1 Rule & Scenario Book Playing Time: 2-6 dependent upon size of scenario 4 Displays/Charts 1 Turn Display

Dog Boats: Battle of the Narrow Seas Desert Generals by Ernie Copley capQuad by Joe Carter is a solitaire, tactical-level, tures the ebb and flow of the North African narrative-driven wargame. You, as ComCampaign from late 1940 to mander, will lead a squadron of 4 Royal Navy November 1942 with a unique gun boats or torpedo boats on night misemphasis on leadership and command. sions against German Kriegsmarine forces in 2026 Retail Price: $69.00 the English Channel during 1943-1944.

Preorder Price: $54.00 Complexity: Medium

1 Operational Display Rules Booklet 1 Mission Logsheet

Special Price: $57.00 Solitaire: Designed for Solitaire Play 2 Countersheets 1 Mounted Strategic Movement Board 1 Fairmile D Gun Boat Crewmen Placement Board 1 Vosper 72’ Crewmen Placement Board 2 Combat Boards Fairmile D Boat Damage Log / Vosper 72’ Damage Log Boat Squadron Status Sheet 1 Enemy Merchant Ship Status/ Enemy Warship Status 1 Campaign Log Sheet 1 Boat #1 Crew Status Sheet 1 Boats #2-#4 Crew Status Sheet 2 Tables Books 1 Rule Book 2 Erasable markers

Retail Price: $69.00

Eastern Front Operational Battles Quad by John Theissen is four games on the Eastern Front in WWII at an operational level. "Pincers" and " Operation Fredericus" (1942), and "Orel Salient" and "Operation Rumiantsev" (1943). All 4 games share a common set of rules and blend historical detail with high playability.

Preorder Price: $52.00

Late 2025 Complexity: Low/Medium Time Scale: 1 day per turn for 1942 games, 2 days per turn for 1943 games Map Scale: 4 miles or 6.4 km/hex for 1942 games, 6 miles per hex for 1943 games Unit Scale: mostly regiments & divisions for 1942 games, mostly divisions and corps for 1943 games 4 Maps (17x22" each) Players: 1 or 2 (best with 2) 2.5 Countersheets Solitaire: Medium 4 Player Aid Cards Playing Time: 2 hours

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