"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...
With the death of her father, Emperor Charles VI, in October 1740 23-year-old Maria Theresa inherited not an empire or even a country, but a collection of far-flung territories stretching from the Atlantic coast to Italy to Transylvania. The Habsburg inheritance seemed almost intentionally designed to encourage predators, with its richest territories...
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. Rob Markham's Soldier Raj builds on the highly successful model of Soldier Emperor to portray these...
Somalia pirates haunted the Gulf of Aden. Many merchantmen have constantly being hijacked. There are four shipping lines in the Gulf of Aden. Nobody knows where the pirates will occur. Even those experienced businessmen are not sure that they can avoid them. Once encountered the pirates, besides resort to the Navy, the use of wisdom is also needed. As a...
SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS is an uncomplicated war game centered on the naval aspects of the series of wars between England and the various European powers between 1756 and 1805 for dominance of the world’s oceans. The game depicts this conflict at a strategic level, with most operational and tactical details represented by fast and easy-to-play systems, rather...
Sport of Kings (SOK) covers the campaigns of the War of the Austrian Succession in the German theaters of Silesia, Moravia, Bohemia, Bavaria, and the Rhineland, beginning with the outbreak of war in 1740 and running until 1745, when Prussia withdrew from the conflict and the emphasis shifted to other theaters. From December 1740 to 1748, the War of the...
Squadron Commander' is designed specifically to play with the 10mm Crew miniatures from Capitan Games, and the Gunboats & Ships made by Laser Dream Works for Capitan Games. The main elements of the game are the gunboats and ships, along with their crews. Gunboat, our original Napoleonic small naval action rule set, has grown and, with this second edition...
St. Clair's Folly: The Battle of the Wabash River, 1791 is a Tactical level board-wargame of the worst defeat ever suffered by the U.S. Army in the whole American Indian Wars. Determined to wrest control of the Northwest Territory from the Native American nations and tribes inhabiting the area, and concerned by the British Government’s lack of withdrawal...