After the demise of Victory Point Games, the rights to the games owned by the company returned to their original designers. One of those designs was The First Jihad. A solitaire game about the rise of the Umayyad Caliphate between 632 and 750 AD. Now in the hands of White Dog Games, it is scheduled to go to the printer this February. The First Jihad is a twist on the States of Siege system: instead of the player being situated at the center of the map and fighting off invader