Dinosaurs: A game for All Ages

Get ready to explore Dinosaurs with this fun, easy-to-learn game suitable for children of all ages. You can use any toy dinosaurs you have to create exciting battles, featuring favorites like the Tyrannosaurus Rex and Velociraptor.
This rule set provides everything you need to start playing quickly, focusing on action and adventure without complex rules. You’ll learn to move dinosaurs, engage in combat, and strategize against opponents, allowing you to gather your favorite prehistoric friends and begin your own adventures. What epic dinosaur stories will you create?

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Scurvy Dogs

“Ahoy there, matey! Gather ’round and listen close, for I’ve got the lowdown on Scurvy Dogs, a grand ol’ set of rules for ye scallywags lookin’ for some fast-paced pirate brawlin’!”

Scurvy Dogs ain’t yer grandpappy’s ponderous rule set, no sir! It’s a treasure map to swashbucklin’ action, built for small gangs of up to a dozen of yer most scurvy, cutthroat pirates. Whether ye be fightin’ a rival captain or teamin’ up against a landlubber, these rules be quick as a sea shanty and sharp as a cutlass!

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Paws & Portals: The Deck of Destiny is a fast, dice-free tabletop skirmish game where bold Dogs, devious Cats, and one very opinionated deck of cards decide how the battle unfolds. There are no turns, no dice, and no guarantees — only momentum, timing, and the constant risk that everything will go wrong at once.

Fight across dining rooms, billiard tables, and bedrooms turned battlegrounds. Surge forward in reckless Overdrive, snatch victory at the perfect moment, or watch the round end just as your plan finally made sense.

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Mission Lock

Experience the intense, tactical gameplay of “Mission Lock: Small Unit Action in WW2 and the 21st Century”, where you lead a small fighting section and face critical, life-or-death decisions.

This fast-paced system elevates small-unit combat by prioritizing psychological pressure over simple attrition. Through an innovative Suppression mechanic, incoming fire does more than cause casualties—it actively erodes your team’s resolve and limits their tactical options. Players are forced into high-stakes decision-making, balancing desperate dashes across open ground against the safety of “ground hugging” while their soldiers’ ability to act strains under the weight of enemy fire.

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Trench Crawl

Players command a small force tasked with pushing forward through defensive works whose layout is unknown and only revealed as the advance continues. Trenches bend, break, and intersect unpredictably. Contacts occur at close range, often without warning, and each engagement reduces the force’s ability to continue.Inspired by historical trench operations, Trench Crawl is a study of uncertainty, endurance, and the practical limits of offensive action in confined, fortified terrain.

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Threads of Liberty — The Women Who Wove Australian Democracy

They stitched a flag — and helped stitch a nation. The Eureka Stockade is remembered as the dawn of Australian democracy: miners rising against injustice, the Southern Cross flying defiantly in the smoke of battle. But behind the barricades — and behind the flag itself — Threads of Liberty — The Women Who Wove Australian Democracy reveals how these women — and many others whose names never entered the archives — held families together in crisis, sustained the mining community through fear and trauma, and shaped reforms that transformed colonial Australia.

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The Guru’s Vellum Vol 1– a compendium of rules

For the dedicated gamer who appreciates the satisfying weight of history in their hands, The Grand Compendium collects four acclaimed small-scale rule sets into a single, definitive volume. This isn’t just a book; it’s a treasure trove of tactical possibilities, designed to endure the rigors of the wargaming table.

Inside, you will find:

• Blade and Banner: Command your knights and peasant levies in the brutal, decisive battles of a fantasy kingdom at war.
• Tuk Tuk Zombie Rumble: Navigate the deadly chaos of a zombie apocalypse using speed, wits, and questionable public transport.
• Lead Luck and Loyalty: Test the bonds of your chosen crew in tight, narrative skirmishes where fortune favors the bold and betrayal waits in the shadows.
• Vae Victus: Relive the disciplined glory and tactical genius of ancient empires, from phalanx to legion.

Four distinct worlds. One essential rulebook. Prepare your dice, open the cover, and breathe in the adventure.

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Operation Whiting

Operation Whiting was not a campaign of advance or victory. It was an intelligence effort conducted after defeat, when Australia’s capacity to contest Timor by conventional means had already collapsed. Conceived in the aftermath of Sparrow Force, Whiting sought to preserve observation and communication in a territory now firmly under Japanese occupation. Its purpose was limited, its risks considerable, and its prospects uncertain from the outset.

This book examines Operation Whiting as a case study in persistence under constraint. Drawing on Australian War Memorial sources and contemporary records, it traces how contact was established, sustained, and ultimately terminated as Japanese control tightened and the space for clandestine activity narrowed. The operation is assessed not by the standards of conventional warfare, but by the criteria under which it was authorised: restraint, endurance, and the preservation of knowledge when action was no longer possible.

Rather than offering a dramatic narrative of resistance, this study situates Whiting within the wider context of Australia’s strategic vulnerability in early 1942. It shows how intelligence, rather than force, became a means of continued engagement after military defeat, and how judgement, rather than momentum, shaped decisions about persistence and withdrawal.

Operation Whiting reveals a quieter dimension of the war in the South-West Pacific: one fought at the margins, through limited means and under constant risk, where success was measured not in territory held or battles won, but in whether contact could be maintained at all.

From the training camps of Australia to the dust and fire of North Africa, Hennessy of the A.I.F. follows one ordinary section of Australian soldiers as they are drawn into the first great campaigns of the Second World War.

Corporal Jack Hennessy is not a hero in search of glory. He is a fitter by trade, a quiet leader by necessity, and a man who understands that survival depends less on courage than on reliability. Around him gathers a section of volunteers—larrikins, labourers, boys barely grown, and veterans already marked by war. Together they are carried from the familiar rhythms of home to the uncertainty of desert warfare, where heat, exhaustion, and fear test them long before the enemy does.

As the campaign unfolds, the men of the section learn that war is rarely the clean, decisive struggle imagined from afar. It is confusion, endurance, and the steady dependence on those beside you. Through humour, hardship, and the unspoken bonds of mateship, they move from eager volunteers to seasoned soldiers confronting the reality of combat and the cost it demands.

Blending historical context with vivid storytelling, Hennessy of the A.I.F. is a tribute to the ordinary Australians who crossed the world to fight in unfamiliar lands—and to the quiet professionalism, resilience, and loyalty that carried them forward when certainty disappeared.

Hennessy of the AIF:Answering the Call

From the training camps of Australia to the dust and fire of North Africa, Hennessy of the A.I.F. follows one ordinary section of Australian soldiers as they are drawn into the first great campaigns of the Second World War.

Corporal Jack Hennessy is not a hero in search of glory. He is a fitter by trade, a quiet leader by necessity, and a man who understands that survival depends less on courage than on reliability. Around him gathers a section of volunteers—larrikins, labourers, boys barely grown, and veterans already marked by war. Together they are carried from the familiar rhythms of home to the uncertainty of desert warfare, where heat, exhaustion, and fear test them long before the enemy does.

As the campaign unfolds, the men of the section learn that war is rarely the clean, decisive struggle imagined from afar. It is confusion, endurance, and the steady dependence on those beside you. Through humour, hardship, and the unspoken bonds of mateship, they move from eager volunteers to seasoned soldiers confronting the reality of combat and the cost it demands.

Blending historical context with vivid storytelling, Hennessy of the A.I.F. is a tribute to the ordinary Australians who crossed the world to fight in unfamiliar lands—and to the quiet professionalism, resilience, and loyalty that carried them forward when certainty disappeared.

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Operation Opossum:
Australian Forces and the Politics of War Termination in the Netherlands East Indies, 1945

In April 1945, as the Pacific War staggered toward its end, a small group of Australian soldiers slipped into Japanese-held territory in the Netherlands East Indies. Their mission was not to seize ground or destroy an enemy force, but to prevent a catastrophe that had not yet occurred: the execution or coercion of the Sultan of Ternate, a figure whose survival could shape the fragile transition from occupation to post-war order.

Operation Opossum tells the story of that mission—and explains why it mattered.

Drawing on Australian War Memorial archives, contemporary reporting, and post-war operational reconstructions, this book reveals how late-war Australian strategy increasingly prioritised legitimacy, restraint, and political effect over battlefield dominance. It shows how a raid involving only a handful of men, conducted far from the main theatres of decision, carried consequences that extended well beyond a single island.

More than a narrative of a daring extraction, this is a study of how wars end. It explores the collapse of Japanese authority, the uncertainties of decolonisation, and the emergence of stabilisation operations designed to prevent violence rather than unleash it. In doing so, it challenges conventional measures of military success and highlights the strategic importance of actions whose greatest achievement was that nothing happened.

Operation Opossum is essential reading for students of Australian military history, special operations, and the complex politics of war termination—reminding us that sometimes the most decisive victories leave no ruins behind.

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