Enemy in Sight, originally called Cutthroats and Cannons, was two years in the making. It is a fast paced card wargame with a good mix of strategy and luck of the draw. Each player starts with a fleet of six ships and six cards. As your ships are destroyed your hand size diminishes as well. One of the most unique characteristics of the game is the walking...
This expansion to Europa Universalis adds a complete countersheet and rules to AWE's game of early modern Europe (1492-1792). Cannot be played alone. Countersheet #7 contains 260 square counters and 13 round counters. New types of counters include: Forts (like fortresses, can be built on the Rest-of-the-World map) Missionaries and missions, which give...
Evolutionary War offers historical miniatures battles that open with sweeping Grand Tactical Manouevers, and then shift to an innovative command and initiative system where enemy units compete against their Morale Grade to complete the Tactical Evolutions expected of them during the course of an hour, rather than against whoever rolls the higher die. There...
The relationship between the two ancient Asian superpowers of Burma (currently Myanmar) and Siam (currently Thailand) was long, bloody and well documented. Burma and Siam clashed constantly, involving at least 17 separate conflicts that in turn resulted in at least six sieges of the Siam’s capital, Ayutthaya, over a 300 year period. Twelve of these...
A Famous Victory is MiHs game simulating the battles of Blenheim and Ramillies. Quote from the rules "A Famous Victory (AFV) allows players to recreate two of the major battles - Blenheim and Ramillies - fought by England and her continental allies against the ambitions of the Sun King, Louis XIV, during the War of the Spanish Succession, a war that...
Far Distant Ships: a quick playing set of rules covering fleet actions in the age of sail where linear tactics were to the fore. The aim of these rules, which draw upon techniques and concepts from LFG’s Cannon, Cross and Crescent combined with a development span covering some 20 years has been to develop a quick play set that focusses on the command and...
“The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) began when the King of Spain died without an heir. King Louis XIV of France and Emperor Leopold I of Austrian both claimed the throne, and Spain's territory. England and the Netherlands sided with Austria, while Bavaria joined the French." "At the start of the war the French army had a reputation as the best...
"The Great Northern War (1700 - 1721) was a military struggle between Sweden on one side, and Russia, Denmark, and Saxony-Poland on the other." "In 1708 Charles XII launched an invasion of Russia, determined to capture Moscow and force the Tsar to accept a peace treaty that favored Sweden. Peter the Great ordered a 'scorched earth' policy to deny supplies...
Rules of Play for Battles in the Age of Frederick the Great 1740-1786 From the publisher's website: "Koenig Krieg is a set of war game rules that represents the times of Frederick the Great King of Prussia; hence the name Koenig Krieg or Kings War in English. The time we are specifically looking at is the period from 1733 when Frederick was a young man...