—COMING SOON—Fall 2025—

Welcome to the Second Edition of Decimation – World War II a role-playing wargame or RPW for short. A role-playing wargame bridges the gap between two types of games – wargames whose players often have scholarly levels of knowledge of military history, weapons, and tactics, and role-playing games, where a vicarious and fantastical sense of adventure drives the player’s every decision.

The game’s theme is a blend between classic, out-of-print, boxed wargames, modern wargaming miniature systems, and a layer of traditional pen-and-paper role-playing game mechanics where every member of your squad matters. Utilize these rules with either miniatures and models of 28mm or 1:72 scale figures of infantry, artillery, vehicles, and armor you wish, enjoy collecting, painting, building, and of course, how much gaming space you have. Scale only dictates how we measure distance, not how we measure fun.

Decimation – World War II is unique. Instead of controlling large groups of units at a macro scale – divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, companies, platoons, or an entire squad as a single actionable unit, you control individual soldiers in and around a squad-sized group. By playing at this level, you will find the rules capture the intensity and tactics of the combat infantryman. As a player, you will make the decisions for your men leveraging team-focused weapons, training, and tactics to maximize effectiveness.

Unlike war games, Decimation – World War II functions with a Referee whose responsibility is to prepare the battlefield, scale maps, the mission, the scenario at hand, along with controlling the enemy forces the player(s) encounter. This style of player-to-referee relationship is common among fantasy role-playing games and is essentially the same in Decimation – World War II. For the wargamer, well-versed in historical military squad tactics of the various major powers, you can breathe as much detail here you deem necessary to satisfy your idea of fun. You can play as a straight up head-to-head wargame without a Referee or play out a skirmish solo with the rules where you make objective decisions for both sides. If your focus is a squad vs squad style battle, the rules give you more detail than most wargames, as every shot counts.

Decimation – World War II provides you with a framework for soldier progression over the course of a multi-session campaign leaning on fantasy role-playing game sensibilities or if you wish kick off a battle with Veteran soldiers with years of experience capturing your wargamer’s passion for historical accuracy.