The Sharp End - Print & Play

THE SHARP END — PRINT & PLAY is a solo/co-operative deck-building wargame of the 1982 Falklands campaign, played entirely with cards you print at home.

This is based on the PC game we made and have also uploaded previously to the dashboard: https://stronma.itch.io/the-sharp-end-print-play

Five linked missions of Operation CORPORATE — San Carlos, Pebble Island, Goose Green, Mount Kent, Stanley — each set up from a RESTRICTED briefing card that tells you the turn limit, the enemy resistance, and where the three theatre tracks start. Push WEST, EAST and AIR to secured before any lane collapses, and break the defence before the clock runs out.

The enemy runs itself. No opponent, no lookup charts — the enemy deck plays the war against you, and it gets meaner every mission as new threat packets shuffle in: night counter-attacks and AAA at Pebble Island, Exocets and 155s by Goose Green, the final defence line at Stanley.

Your task force is a deck you build. Spend bonds between missions on 2 PARA, 42 Commando, Sea Harrier CAP, HMS Broadsword’s Sea Wolf goalkeeper, D Squadron 22 SAS, Bravo November — 22 unit types across five supply tiers, released mission by mission as the campaign escalates.

What’s in the box

• 72 poker-size cards (40 Task Force / 32 Enemy) across duplex-ready sheets
• 5 large mission briefing cards
• Mission track sheet
• Rules of Play booklet (16 pages, separate download)
• Print instructions with a scale gauge — US Letter and A4, 100% scale

Gold and Silver awards per mission for fast, clean victories. The campaign plays in five sittings of 20–40 minutes; a single mission is a lunch break.

Prefer it on screen? The digital edition — The Sharp End (stronma.itch.io/the-sharp-end) — covers three campaigns: the Falklands, the BAOR Cold War front, and Op GRANBY 1991.

The Sharp End is part of the Falklands Collection at emperormarkus.com/falklands-hub — alongside the strategy game 1982: South Atlantic Showdown, the board game, historical articles, and the alternate-history novel Echoes from the South Atlantic, available now on Amazon. More retro strategy at stronma.itch.io and emperormarkus.com.

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Echoes From The South Atlantic

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