Simplicity in Practice is a set of miniature wargame rules for the Horse-and-Musket period published in the wargaming magazine Battlegames (Issue 23). It is designed for playing 'tabletop teaser' scenarios of the kind written by Charles Grant, Stuart Asquith, Henry Hyde and Steve Jones amongst others, with a small number of figures on a small board...
Six Empires is a historical strategy game with unique mechanics for world events, national morale, and non-player nations. Each territory in the game is assigned a point value. Higher value territories give you more points, but are harder to conquer! In addition, some territories have additional benefits like the ability to generate new military units or a...
One of the American Heritage Command Decision Strategy Games, highly prized by collectors. This one is the American War of Independence game. The British have four armies of 5 units each, 3 warships and a troop carrier with 2 reinforcements on board. The Americans have 16 units spread all over the board (including a special "Continental Army" unit), 1...
In the town of Sleepy Hollow, Katrina Van Tassel, daughter of wealthy landowner Baltus Van Tassel, has two suitors vying for her hand in marriage: Brohm Van Brunt, a local burly townsman looking to improve his livelihood, and Ichabod Crane, a refined outsider whose intellect is rivaled only by his penchant for belief in the supernatural. Curiously, the...
Small Wars: Mohicans is the first game of the Small Wars series. Covering the French and Indian War of the mid-18th century, it is based on a popular 1983 Canadian boardgame called Mohawk. Mohicans starts in 1754 and continues to 1760, which historically was the year after the conquest of Quebec by British forces (a founding event in the creation of modern...
Smooth & Rifled is a Tactical level miniatures wargame system designed to recreate skirmish games with 28, 20 or 15mm miniatures. This very first edition covers the period from approximately 1700 to approximately 1900. The French and Indian War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the American Civil War and the wars of the Colonial era are...
From the Avalanche Press Website: Between 1767 and 1846, war and intrigue dominated the Indian sub-continent. War constantly flared between the Indian kingdoms, both against one another and against the British and French interlopers. The Europeans, meanwhile, also busily fought each other. Indian Empires is a complete game, using the same game engine as...
"Soldier King is a game for two to four players covering the war of succession in a leaderless empire. Each player controls one army and must struggle through diplomacy and conquest to capture a majority of the Imperial electoral cities, thus assuring his election as Emperor." "Movement of armies is from point to point along roads and waterways, thus...
From the Avalanche Press website: The Seven Years' War Worldwide Between 1756 and 1763, Europe erupted into what became the first true world-wide conflict, known as the Seven Years’ War. On the one hand, Britain and France vied for supremacy in world-wide trade, becoming deadly enemies in the process. On the other, Austria and Prussia struggled for...
This is the third of the Avalanche Press Golden Journal supplements. It contains 28 additional counters with a page size color map with rules for variants of two games: Soldier Kings: Most Serene Empire Map and additional counters. Adds Venice as a major power to the games. Can replace Holland in a seven- or eight-player game or be played as a ninth power...
Description from the publisher: The last war of the Enlightenment broke out in July 1778, following the death of the Elector of Bavaria. Austrian Emperor Joseph II sought Bavaria for himself; Prussian King Frederick II wished to block this acquisition. Their conflict became known as the War of the Bavarian Succession or, more colorfully, as the Potato War....
In October 1740, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI ate a poisonous mushroom and died, leaving no sons. Over the weeks that followed, one European power after another reneged on their promises to support his daughter Maria Theresa’s inheritance of the “crown lands” of Austria, Bohemia and Hungary. In December the newly-crowned King Frederick II invaded Austrian...