Take Aim Designs

01/05/2026

A nice overview of the just-released Berlin. Under 12 minutes, well produced.

I explore Berlin, Fall of the Reich, 1945, the upcoming solitaire (solo) wargame (board game) from Revolution Games where you have 9 days as the Soviet playe...

01/04/2026

Area Movement Games - Attempt at a Geneaology.

Group One: The Avalon Hill Games published between 1981 and 1991. The scale increased with each of the four games, which pleased some and bothered others. The final two games have the "Sunset die roll" mechanism which made them very tense to play because turn length became unpredictable.

Group Two: In the years after Avalon Hill ceased publishing a number of games more or less directly related to the four Avalon Hill games were published: Spearhead Games published games on Antietam and Gettysburg (the former was playtested by AH); Moments in History published a WWI/Cambrai game; and MMP published my Market-Garden game (which had been under contract with AH and is largely the same as Breakout: Normandy).

Group Three: All the other games I published with MMP, Against the Odds Magazine; Battles Magazine, and my own company Take Aim Designs between 2007 and 2017, all of which continued to use the Sundet die roll mechanism. Against the Odds also published Storm over Taierzhuang, Utmost Savagery (solitaire Peleliu), and Lilliburero, all area movement games.

Group Four: The "Storm Over . . . " games published by MMP which includes Stalingrad, Dien Bien Phu, and Jerusalem. As I recall all these games include cards, which differentiates them from the other groups.

Group Five: I replaced the Sunset die roll with the Momentum die roll for games on Chancellorsville, WW2 Arras, and the American reconquest of Corregidor. I had planned to continue designing more two-player games using this (imo better) mechanism but have been sidetracked by the next group . . .

Group Six: Influenced by Utmost Savagery, the adaptation of the area movement system to a solitaire format which has, to date, covered Stalingrad, Manila, Aachen, and Berlin. Stalingrad sold out its first print run in nine months, its second print run in eleven months, and is going to be reprinted for a third time in mid-2026. The other titles have sold nearly as well. Given that level of popularity I suspect I'll be designing in this group for quite some time.

01/01/2026

Close to 500 orders in the first two weeks!

12/30/2025

Orders are arriving fast and furious. Berlin appears to be doing just as well as Manila and Stalingrad! 😎

12/27/2025

Oh yea, it's hittin' the tables at last.

12/21/2025

Copies are beginning to arrive!

12/13/2025

Solitaire Berlin is now available for ordering!

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12/02/2025

Solitaire Stalingrad has sold out for a second time. Thanks to all who have ordered! If you haven't ordered a copy yet don't worry, we are already planning for a third printing.

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11/18/2025

The solitaire Berlin 1945 game has been printed and is in the process of being shipped from China across the Pacific. Depending on when it makes land the game could be available for ordering in either the second half of December or the beginning of January.

11/12/2025

Now available in paperback.

Old England, New England, and the Civil War How a Clash of Cultures Ignited a Global Campaign for Racial Equality and Civil Rights By Len Gougeon Subjects: American History, Democracy, Human Rights, Nineteenth-century Studies Hardcover : 9798855802122, 368 pages, May 2025 Paperback : 9798855802115,....

09/08/2025

Solitaire Berlin 1945 has an estimated release date of January 2026. https://www.revolutiongames.us/Berlin_1945.html

08/26/2025

Self-explanatory.

Revolution Games: Manila-The Savage Streets 1945 - We take our first look insideThis is my newest game (although not new on the market) that I recently added...