Solitaire WW2 Wargames

SOLITAIRE WW2 WARGAMES is a 50-page illustrated book that includes three World War II strategy card games -- Sniper Attack, Stringbag, & Penal Battalion, all played with a single deck of standard playing cards -- ideal for the solo player. 

SNIPER ATTACK puts you in the role of a single sniper, with a secondary goal of eliminating enemy targets, and main goal of surviving the day alive.  Choose your nationality, personal sniping characteristics, and theater (Stalingrad 1942, Italy 1943, France 1944, Berlin 1945, etc.).  The game provides opportunity and risk that you must assess in deciding when to pull the trigger and when to sit tight and wait.

STRINGBAG recreates the British attack on the Italian fleet at Taranto, November 1940.  You're put in the role of a Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber, and must weather the flak and balloon cables to drop your fish against a warship in the harbor.  Standard and optional rules are provided.  (Stringbag uses a similar system as our Torpedo Raiders game.)

PENAL BATTALION is a simple game of strategy on an offbeat topic occuring somewhere on the east front in WW2. Your "unit" has been assigned to clear minefields... can you, as an individual in this unit, survive the day without going BOOM? That's your goal.  And if you succeed, you get to do the same thing tomorrow.

All you need is a deck of cards and an imagination and the strategy/fun will be there aplenty. Each of these three games were published in past (out of print) issues of Panzer Digest.  Each is highly playable, with enough historicity and replayability to keep you entertained for a long time. SOLITAIRE WW2 WARGAMES is now available in PDF format.  Designed by Gary Graber.  Published by Minden Games, as Minden Classics Vol. 3, published in 2020.