The card sets available from High Flying Dice Games August Update

UPDATED: Checked and updated where needed:  08/12/2026.

Yes, more card sets for ATO and HFDG games.  Three new games that cover an English battle, a Civil War battle and a battle more recently.  

Paul had put out a card set listing many years ago and since I have been working on one for a while, took his listing, added it to mine to see my gaps and put this up on the blog. I think I am finished for now, though to be honest as long as Paul and ATO keeps putting out games, there will always be more card sets to add.  

I will do my best to keep this up to date, but one can always email Paul to see if a card set is available and also order card set(s).  Though a certain online game shop also sells these, they don't have all of them and do not offer the "buy 4 games get a free card set" as High Flying Dice does.  

New - Three card sets for 2 new games that are now available to purchase and 1 card set for a soon to be game coming in the ATO 2025 Annual.  The first new game up is: 

Fragile Crown, Hard Battle - Battle of Shrewsbury: July 21, 1403. Two English armies, equipped in similar fashion and fighting with similar methods, collided outside the town. The result was a battle where tactics, leadership and a terrifying exchange of longbow fire mattered more than national identity.  

 

This is interesting as the armies were close enough in strength that leadership and battlefield discipline became decisive. Like in the real battle of so many years ago, it will be the players who will rule the game, not the mechanics.  Honestly, at this point, maybe this should be termed not as a game, but a true historical simulation.  

The second game up is:

A Hellish Fight: The Battle of Fort Sumter - 1863. Most folks don't know that the last battle of Fort Sumter was an amphibious assault on the fort by 100 US Marines (we are all over the place) and 350 Navy sailors.  The CSA was firmly entrench in some nasty fortifications. Needless to say, the US lost this battle and never again was an assault preformed on the fort. 

 

Instead Union guns on Morris Island had resumed the bombardment that would continue off and on for the next 17 months until the Confederates evacuated Fort Sumter and the Charleston defenses on the night of February 17, 1865, thus ending the longest siege under fire in US military history to date.  

 

Looks to be an interesting game too.  There is a Marine assault (shades of Cactus 1942), death and destruction, and iron clads... what more could one want in an ACW game.  😉

Terminal Illness: The Battle for Antonov Airport".  Now for the last of the new card sets.  This will be on a game that is included with the ATO 2025 Annual "Hard to Swallow". This Annual 2025 concerns the opening stages of the Putin's (spit on him) special military operation with 2 games. 

 

Though not out yet, it is something to look forward too. 

First game in this issue is the operational level solitaire game "A Road to Ruin" by Steve Cunliffe.  Covering the Battle for Kyiv during the later stages, it will be of medium complexity and one does play the Ukrainians. It will be eye opening and exciting. One will use 88 5/8" counters (probably double sided) and a 22"x34" game map and cards.  That is a huge game map and from the looks it looks like area movement (I like).  

But the other gem in this issue will be a 2 player game by Paul Rohrbaugh called "Terminal Illness: The Battle for Antonov Airport" (24/02/2022) that will use this new card set.  This was the opening attack for the Battle of Kyiv and where basically a rag tag Ukrainian army proved to be a Grizzly Barr where Russia is a Honey Bear. (if you are going to be a bear, one has to be a Grizz). 

This game has an airborne assault, lots of death, and destruction of Russian troops.  With 120 counters and a 17"x22" game map and as an added bonus, if ordered thru ATO, one will get an expanded add-on for Terminal Illness called "Desantnik Disaster".  Plus a new PBG "The Dragon and the Serpent", that I was luckily enough to be part of the play testers. It's a fun PBG. (so if you don't like it, you have me to blame!).

You know that this issue, as all Annuals, is worth it's weight in gold.  I'm saving up for it now. 

That's it for August updates. More sure to follow for the rest of the year.   😁

Old News - "No Angels Came: The Battle of Dai Do, May-April 1968" is the name of the newest Nam game from High Flying Dice Games with a card set available and a card set for "A Royal Pain: The Siege of Boston 1775- 1776" (a mini-game was just released in ATO's 2024 Annual).  Available now.

Got word of a new card set for Paul's newly released A Mad Endeavor: The Fight for Stoney Point, July 16, 1779, a very nice looking American Revolutionary War game with Mad Anthony Wayne* against those pesky British, and a very nice card set (see above).  With two 11"X17" game maps (using area movement), 97 nicely done counters and 8 pages of rules, looks like a really good game worth the time and effort to put together and play. This is HFDG's 250th anniversary game. Also, I need to throw out kudos to Bruce on his graphics for this game. As I said to Paul, "my gawd Paul, fantastic counters by Bruce!".

*NOTE: Director Raoul Walsh saw John Wayne moving studio furniture while working as a prop boy and cast him in his first starring role in The Big Trail (1930). For his screen name, Walsh suggested "Anthony Wayne", after Revolutionary War General "Mad" Anthony Wayne. Fox Studios chief Winfield Sheehan rejected it as sounding "too Italian". Walsh then suggested "John Wayne". Sheehan agreed, and the name was set. And history was made in both 1779 and 1930.  

Added a while back - card sets that will be available for these -  HFDG game on the Battle of An Boa May 5, 1968,  to be released soon and ATO/TPS (LPS) has released 3 PBGs (yes, 3) on Operation Topsy, a series of British LRDG raids in North Africa, raids that has never been gamed before in PBG format.  You will like these as yours truly (yes, that's me) was a play tester. I found them interesting and a challenge.  And the 3 PBGs are very nice.  

Paul does have a new contact email address for ordering these. It has been updated correctly here. 

Remember, not all of the games that HFDG or ATO/TPS publishes uses cards, but those that do, here is the listing of what's available (this includes full size games as well as PBGs).

NOTE - All single card sets are now $12.00 and double card sets are $20.00 (and marked) - current as of 2 July 2026.

High Flying Dice Games Titles:

A
A Mad Endeavor 
As Tears Go By: Operation Starlite

B
Bad Moon Rising: The Battle for Fire Base Illingworth
Bad News on the Doorstep
Battle Royale: The First Silesian War
Battles for Canada series: 
Battles of the Old Northwest series
Battle’s Orphan
Bitter Heights: The Battle of Mitla Pass
Black Hell
Black Shirts, Red Blood
Blood and Oil: The 1985 Persian Oil Tanker War
Bold Fight: The Battle of Mobile Bay
Brave and Noble Fights: The Battles of the Yalu and Wei-Hei Wei 
Breaking Teeth: The Battle of Teruel

C
City of Confusion: The Battle for Hue: (2 deck card set)
Cold and Resolute Fight
Cold Confusion
Courage Under Fire: The Battle for An Loc

D
Day of Infamy: The Attack on Pearl Harbor 
Depths of Courage 7-10: Italian Frogmen Raids of WWII
Desert Eagles
Diamond in the Rough: The Battle for Fort Driant
Digger's Resolve: The Battle for Milne Bay 
Duel of Iron: The Battles of Hampton Roads
Dueling Eagles: Air Battles Over Malta, June 1940

F
Fighting Eagles: Air Battles Over the Western Front, 1918
Fortunate Sons: The Anonymous Battle, 1971
Fragile Crown: The Battle of Shrewsbury: July 21, 1403 NEW

G
Greyhound vs. Bear: The Raid on Astrakhan

H
Head Honcho: Air Battles Over the Yalu
Heaven's Will: The Raid on Ulithi Atoll 
Hellish Fight: The Battle of Fort Sumter - 1863 NEW
Heroes’ Crossroads: The Battle of Lausdell, Dec 1944
Hitting Home

J
Jitra Jitters: The Battle for Jitra

K
Kingly Fight: The Battle of Bouvines

L
Land of Confusion vol. 1: The Battle for Fulda Gap
Land of Confusion vol. 2: The Battle for Luneburg Heath
Land of Confusion vol. 3: The Battle for Hof Gap
Lines in the Sand Series
Long, Cruel Woman card set

M
Mud, Blood and Steel: The Battle of Hovezeh
Muerte Desde Arriba! Air Combat During the Spanish Civil War

N
Nemesis: The Battle of Abbey Ardenne
Nightmare Island
No Angels Came: The Battle of Dai Do, May-April 1968 
No Pasaran! 
No Satisfaction
No Time For Prayer
Nothing to Lose

O
One Shot Away: The Lon San Campaign (2 deck card set)
Operation Fustian
Operation Ikarus
Operation Iron Brain
Operation Jubilee
Operation Praying Mantis

P
Paint it Black: Attack on Lang Vei
Polar Vortex  
Price of Honor: The Battle of Callao

S
Sad Days of Battle
Scourge of Stone and Spirit
Seeing Red
Shredding Peace
Souls to Waste 
Sound and Fury: The Battle of Mechili
Succeed or Die

T
Thunder Gods: Kamikaze Attacks at Okinawa
Thunder Upon the Water: The Battle of Albemarle Sound
Till Darkness Goes: The Battle of Tra Binh Dong

U
Unpleasant and Devastating Battle:

V
Victory in Hell
Villa's Vengeance

W
Waters Unvexed
What Went Wrong: The Battle of Ap Bac
Whatever the Cost: The Battle of Corregidor, Feb 1945

Against the Odds/Turning Point Simulations Titles:

A
A Royal Pain: The Siege of Boston 1775-1776
All or Nothing: The Battle of Fort Mercer

B
Barring the Gate: The Battle of Hougoumont 
Behold a Pale Glider: The Battle for Eben Emael

C
Cherry Blossoms at Night: The Raid on Yontan Airfield 
Cornered Wolf: The Soviet Raid on Rastenburg

D
Defiant Stand: The Invasion of Midway
Depths of Courage, volume 1: The Attack of the CSS Hunley

F
Fateful Days: The Marne Campaign, 1914
Five for Fighting: The Battles of D-Day

G
Give Me Night, or Blucher! 
Goto Hell! Saipan, June 17 1944 
Guarding the Land: The Attack on Fort Griswold

H
Hard, Pounding Fight: The Battle of La Haye Sainte

I
Infamy Avenged: Operation Hailstone

L
La Garde Recule: Imperial Guard’s Attack at Waterloo
Leipzig Campaign

M
Morgan’s A Coming! 

N
No Safe Harbor: The Raid On Darwin
Not Men, But Devils: The Battle of Camerone, 1863
Nothing So Well Lost: The Siege of Rhodes

O
Operation Topsy

P
Peak Courage: The Battle for Mount Hermon
Peiper’s Dream: Stand Against KG Peiper, December 1944

S
Showtime Hanoi: Air Battles Over Hanoi, 1972
Some Poles Apart: The Battle for the Westerplatte
Stand at Mortain: The Mortain Counter-Attack
Surrender Unto Caesar: The Siege of Alesia

T
Taken for a Ride: The Grierson Raid 
Terminal Illness: The Battle for Antonov Airport (game coming soon- ATO 2025 Annual) NEW
Toast of the Town: Boudicca’s Attack on Londinium

U
Union Forever: The American Civil War

Any one of the single deck card sets can be had for free with any direct order from High Flying Dice Games with a 4 game minimum (click here).

One can always order any of these card by contacting Paul directly too!😉 (click here)

Take care and if the site doesn't look ok, send me an email or a comment about the problem.

-ab

 

Checked with newest list from Paul. Note - all graphics on this page is copyrighted by High Flying Dice Games. Used with permission.  New card sets are marked with "NEW".  😆

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Three new games to me, probably old to others... (redux part II)

(Sorry, but I had to redo some of this. My English and writing was horrible.) 

The other day it finally hit me, Against the Odds (ATO) gaming magazine is actually going away.  With that, so probably will be going Turning Point Simulations (TPS), a sister company to ATO that has some remarkable games.  I do have  a couple, but today received 3 more that was ordered last week.  

These games from TPS are based on one book, "Twenty Decisive Battles of the World". Originally by Sir Edward Creasy in 1851 (and only covered 15 battles that more than likely changed the course of western civilization (sorry, no African or Asian battles are included), the book was updated in 1964 by Lt Col Joseph Mitchell to include another 5 battles updating to the 20th Century. The book is available if you would like to own it from Amazon (where else). Without further interruptions, on to the games....

"The Battle of Midway (refit edition)" 
Chapter 19 of 21

and includes:

A full color 11” x 17” mounted mapboard and integrated battle display. In addition there are 176 large 5/8" die-cut counters with one 12 page rulebook (2nd printing). Also included are the various charts and displays.  Skill level is considered advance though. 

Plus included is the small game "A Defiant Stand" and the designer responsible for making me spend money Paul Rohrbaugh.  Yes, I know what the small game is about, no I will not yak about it. 

I have actually been looking at this game for a while now. Finally remember to purchase it.  If it is the Pacific theater, I'm a sucker for it.  And it is by one of my favorite designers.  I can't wait for his other new Pacific area games to come out.  

Along with this group purchase, I had to get another one of Paul's ancient games, this time it is 

"Marathon 490 BC" 
Chapter 1 of 21

and includes a a beautiful 11” x 17” mounted mapboard. We get over 200, 5/8" in size die-cut counters to wander all over the game map. The rulebook is 8 pages in length and of course the standard 1 player aid card. The game was design to be easy and of course we know this designer: Paul Rohrbaugh.

It is an interesting battle to read about and one whose name has become synonymous with long distance foot races, but also anything that is long played, such as D&D marathons, poker marathons, tennis marathons, tv marathons, etc.  

and finally the last game bought in this group, which is all about "her", aka "She who must be obeyed". The lady herself "Joan of Arc - Victory 1429". The game is available as a refit, but to be honest...

I had bought a small mini game from HFDG called The Maid Ascendant: The Siege of Orleans (now you know where the city of New Orleans name came from, them smarty pants French) which covers the same part of the battle that the refit does from my understanding and design by the same game designer Andy Nunez. 

But, hey if you are a completest, go for the TSP refit.  Me, I will prob cry in my beer for not getting it, but that's me, as I will probably even forget ordering both games.  

But this little game is worth the cost and mounting the counters. It is well design and from what I heard from the developer, it was fun to developed. Now when a developer says that, that to me means the designer had all the "t's" crossed and "i's" dotted and was a joy to work with.  Well, that does sound like Andy (he's the ATO editor by the way). Anyway onto the game that started it all...

 ah, Jeanne, Jeanne with the light brown hair....

"Joan of Arc's Victory: Render to the Maid" 
Chapter 9 of 21

and this does include an 11"x17" mounted game map. There are 200 die cut counters representing the many countries at war with France. There is even a 12 page rulebook with the 1 player aid chart.  Skill level is "easy" and designer is again, Andy Nunez.

To repeat, there is a "refit" version available.  And again, if you are a completest, please do grab it.  

WTH is a "refit"? I keep throwing that name out there, but maybe it needs explaining.  A refit when comes to TSP games is a game that has had the rules updated, graphics redone, and/or additional scenarios and possibly a small game added.  A refit can be bought for any of the TSP games that had it done, either at the same time one purchases the game or separately for a little bit more money if you are already own the game. This I did for Vicksburg from TSP.  Here are the refits available.

Well that is it.  There are a few more I would like to get and maybe I will be able to buy before ATO and TPS are gone.  It will be a sad day, but one I know Steve and Miss Cindy have been planning for a long long time.  Good luck to both of you.

So, get off your butt and go to Turning Point Simulations  and grab some these fine games before they are truly gone. 

so long for now...
-ab 

 

Yes, my fellow Vets are still suffering. If you know of one who is suffering or are suffering yourself, these are good folks. Not judgemental, as they have been there.  Please, please, do give them a try not only for your sake, but also for your family. It is getting lonely not to see or talk with other Veterans. We are getting too few. That is all I ask. 

 

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