Add this copy of Operation War Board: Fighting Wwii Battles in Scale to cart. $29.50, good condition, Sold by Second Story Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rockville, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by David McKay Company, Inc.
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Book. Octavo, 159 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine pictorial off-white with blue and red lettering. Exterior has slight wear with light foxing, previous bookshop's sticker to the front, and creases to the front flap. Boards have extremely mild wear exteriorly including sparse, small marks. Text block has very light age toning to the edges. Remainder mark to head edge. Slight foxing to the end papers. Illustrated end papers. Illustrated. First US edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column D, ND-D. 1376721. FP New Rockville Stock.
Add this copy of Operation Warboard: Wargaming World War II Battles in to cart. $36.32, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by David McKay Company.
Add this copy of Operation Warboard: Wargaming World War II Battles in to cart. $36.95, very good condition, Sold by Mahler Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pflugerville, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by McKay Co.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0679507078. ISBN Match: different cover art than stock image. This book is in very good condition; no remainder marks. Dustjacket does have some shelfwear, edge wear, a few small edge tears. Inside pages are clean.; 159 pages.
Add this copy of Operation Warboard; Wargaming World War II Battles in to cart. $57.00, fair condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by David McKay Company, Inc.
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Fair, in Fair jacket. Format is about 6.75 inches by 8.75 inches. 159, [1] pages. Ex-library with usual library markings. Includes Illustrations, Abbreviations and explanations, Notes on the rules, The Rules, Pre-game check list, Index to the rules. Includes 20 black and white illustrations of individual armies. Label on fep. Label with name and address of previous owner pasted to top corner of the title page. Topics covered include Pont-de-la-Croix; The Wargames, Then and now; Boots, boots, boots, boots...; Wheels, wheels, wheels, wheels...; Battlegrounds; Instruments of war; Playing the game; and Disaster at D-Day--and other big games. Gavin Tudor Lyall (9 May 1932-18 January 2003) was an English author of espionage thrillers. From 1959 to 1962 he was a newspaper reporter and the aviation correspondent for the Sunday Times. His first novel, The Wrong Side of the Sky, was published in 1961, drawing from his personal experiences in the Libyan Desert and in Greece. It was an immediate success. Lyall then left journalism in 1963 to become a full-time author. Gavin Lyall was also a wargamer and appeared in "Battleground", a Tyne Tees television series on miniature war gaming in 1978. From the basic rules necessary for the novice to the more sophisticated strategies that every expert will want to master, the entire scope of wargaming is explored, ordered, and explained in this illustrated volume. The first half of the book discusses the principles of wargaming, demonstrates how to set up a warlord and fighting force, and plays through representative battle situations. A second section provides all the rules, he principles behind them, and guidelines for interpretation. Donald Featherstone said, 'there have been few wargaming books written as well as Operation Warboard. Gavin Lyall applied his established writing talents to create a wargaming book that in places seemed more like a thriller than a book about a marvelous and engaging hobby'. The book was written for wargaming World War Ii battles in 20-25mm, with rules that were straightforward, fast and comprehensive. The book also had the innovation of including extensive notes about the thinking behind the rules. The player's notes discussed the abstractions and generalizations that informed the design decisions, most of which are still issues that rule-writers for this period still contend with.
Add this copy of Operation Warboard: Wargaming World War II Battles in to cart. $102.77, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by McKay Co.
This is a well-written book that is an engaging read. The simple rules are collated at the back of the book and set out in clear fashion. Several scenarios are 'walked through' to explain how a battle progresses, complete with analysis that offers insight to novices as to the the decisions one makes as a 'general'. I recommend this book for beginners and those who collect 'old school' books from wargaming's more niaive (and fun) period.
