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Latest Works
Crash Dive is now available in Paperback
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Special Feature: Persian Incursion
Game available from Clash of Arms. Order now!
Persian Incursion explores the consequences of an Israeli campaign against Iran, modeling political, military and intelligence actions by both sides. It combines rules adapted from the award-winning Harpoon tactical game with a card-based diplomatic/political component. Players spend Political, Intelligence and Military Points to influence allies or enemies, purchase reinforcements, execute military strikes, or shape their own domestic opinion. Players choose variable starting conditions that shape scenarios, while random strategic events influence play in unexpected ways.
- Persian Incursion provides:
- Operational and tactical rules for air strikes and intercepts by fighters and surface-to-air missiles
- Orders of Battle for the Israeli and Iranian Air Force and the Iranian Air Defense Force
- Analysis of the Iranian nuclear and oil infrastructure
- Iranian ballistic missiles and Israeli ballistic missile defenses
- Target folders for Iranian nuclear facilities, oil terminals and refineries, and airfields
- Variable starting conditions modeling different political situations
Persian Incursion is not a balanced game. We honestly don't know if the Israeli or Iranian player has the advantage. That's one reason for writing the game. It tries to answer the same questions real-world planners are asking: What are the odds of it working? Is it easy or hard? And what are the costs - to the attackers, the defenders, and everyone else on the sidelines?
- Game components include
- Rule book
- Briefing Booklet
- Target Folders
- Israeli and Iranian card decks
- Air Data cards
- Game Map
- Counters
- Dice
Larry Bond and Jim de Felice talk about the game: (wmv)
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Red Dragon Rising: Edge of War
With CIA agent Mara Duncan helping him, Josh McArthur tries to escape the Chinese invasion of Vietnam, and the Chinese agents searching for him, but the war is widening. Other countries are standing with the Chinese "victims," but the US president has received word of Josh's information, and takes measures to slow the Chinese forces until he has the proof in his hands. The US finds itself facing off against Chinese forces at sea, while US officials argue about the cost of a new war to an already crippled economy. The American President knows Vietnam is only the beginning. If China is not stopped, the world will be consumed.
Crash Dive
They are the ultimate unseen deterrent in modern warfare. Thousands of tons of steel, missiles, torpedoes, and men lurking silently hundreds of feet underwater, able to lie off any coastline and unleash a devastating hail of destruction with pinpoint accuracy. They are the true masters of the oceans, striking swift and unseen before slipping away, ready to do it all over again at a moment’s notice.
Submarines and their crews have long held a revered place in the military, with a special place of honor reserved for those men who willingly seal themselves in what could amount to a nuclear-powered coffin for months on end. Although the submarine is a relatively recent development in the field of warfare, many of the men who live and fight in these steel fish have already become legends.
Edited by bestselling author Larry Bond, Crash Dive collects the best nonfiction writing about these near-silent killers of the deep and their crews. From the tough Gato class boats that harassed the Japanese Navy during World War II to the cat-and-mouse games played by U.S. and Soviet submarines during the Cold War, Crash Dive will take you inside the deep and deadly world of the military submarine.
Red Dragon Rising: Shadows of War
The first of a four-book series that looks into a dangerous future. In 2014, climate change has pushed the world to the boiling point. China faces drought and famine; gas costs $14.39 a gallon in the US, Europe has problems of its own. China sets her sights on food-rich Vietnam, and engineers a casus belli designed to justify her aggression, but Josh McArthur, a climatologist doing field work near the border, escapes the massacre of his research team and finds evidence of another - evidence that would discredit Chinese claims and frustrate their plans. Josh must not only escape the Chinese agents hunting him, but he's in the middle of a fast-moving war that is swallowing the country. Josh needs help, and gets it from several places, but he get his information, and himself, if possible, to safe hands.