From the publisher's advertisement in The Dragon #42: COULD YOU LIVE WITHOUT METAL, POTTERY, FARMING OR FIRE? Well, Java Man could ... sometimes. Java Man is the colloquial term for Homo Erectus, the earliest of our ancestors to deserve the title "man." Remains of Java Man were first discovered in Java, where the species did not survive, and later in...
During the period of the Brazilian discovery, several indians tribes that inhabited there, possessed different cultural degrees. Many had already reached sedentarism while others still cultivated the nomadism and due to abundance of food, they didn't develop any pastoral culture. They lived mainly hunting and collecting, not having a writing system, being...
The Jaws of Victory: Battle of Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket: January/February 1944 is a historical simulation of the Soviet's winter offensive in the Ukraine in the early months of 1944 that trapped the better part of two German corps with a classic pincer movement by two Soviet Armies - and the German Army's desperate response to relieve their beleaguered...
The Hundred Years War rages on; the English are laying siege to Orléans, a strategic city between the north and the south of the Loire, between those territories annexed by the English and those held by the French Dauphin. Despite the English forces, Joan of Arc manages to get into the city. The inhabitants and the troops rally around her. You are one of...
World War 2 era game made for the Military. Games is double sided board about 4"X4". Unique cloth strap to tie to leg while playing. I suppose this was for play while riding in Jeeps or other transport. Little cloth pouch is attached to board and holds colored wooden pins. The instruction book gives detailed instructions to play 15 different games and 10...
"Jeff Davis: The Confederacy at War" is a Strategic level solitaire board wargame designed by Charles S. Roberts Award-winner R. Ben Madison and published by White Dog Games. You play President Jefferson Davis, managing the Confederate government and the Southern war effort. Your choices help determine the fate of great armies and the titanic struggle...
Ecopatrol is one of the early game to be released by Tehnolog after their founding. The game deals with a planet where robotic animals live. There are two sides: Biotrances and Technogyrs, who have been at war with one another for some time (much like Battlebeasts). The game is a miniatures-based one, with players moving their robots on the board (a 3-D...
14th October 1806: The clash between the new French ideas about war regarding movement and psychological energy and the old fashioned Prussian traditions on discipline and invincibility. Degree of difficulty: 4/6 Contents: Rigid, plastic cardboard box printed in 5 colors, giving the indications of the number and age of players, the duration of the game...
Jena: La Disfatta della Prussia is an Italian wargame - published together by "I Giochi dei Grandi" and "Torneo Master" - on the battle of Jena-Auerstadt, with four scenarios: the two eponymous battles, the campaign linking both battles and a variant based on a Prussian early assault, as analysed by the English historian David G. Chandler. The game-system...
Discern the Secrets of Napoleon's Greatest Maneuvers. "My God! Can these Frenchmen fly as well as fight?" Jena! The name we give to one of the truly decisive campaigns in history; whereby the sons of the French Revolution under the command of emperor Napoleon Ier, meet and utterly destroy the heirs of Frederick the Great. Five scenarios span the opening...
Following France’s glorious victory against the combined Austro-Russian armies at Austerlitz the previous December, the Prussians have finally come off the fence and declared war against Napoleon. As both sides maneuver, uncertain of the location or center of gravity of the opposing army, they met in a dramatic double battle on the fields of both Jena and...