In the renaissance families like the Medici stood up to seize power. People like Machiavelli wrote books about Utilitarianism and real-politik. Condottieri roamed the Italian landscape searching for fame and fortune. It was a time full of feud and vendettas. Even Shakespeare wrote a piece about love and hate between two families in Verona, the Capulets and...
L'Assedio! 1312 Firenze is a scenario in the strategy game Calendimaggio (the struggles between the Guelphs and Ghibellines around 1300) with its own separate rules. The game map represents a reconstruction of Florence around 1300 and is divided into areas. Within the city, the division follows the "Sesti" (six Florentine districts), while outside the city...
This game L’ATTAQUE is an early predecessor of the nowadays more widely known Stratego. It was designed by Mademoiselle Hermance Edan, who filed a patent for a 'jeu de bataille avec pièces mobiles sur damier' (a battle game with mobile pieces on a gameboard) on 26 Nov 1908. The patent was released by the French Patent Office in 1909 (patent #396.795)....
"L'Eclissi di Zama" is the second wargame published by the Italian games shop "Stategia e Tattica", the first having been "Il Sole di Austerlitz" (Austerlitz's Sun). Both were published on the occasion of public events. The game system, as the "Il Sole di Austerlitz", takes inspiration from "Napoleon's Last Battles", and has about the same hex size while...
L'Été des Boxers (the Summer of the Boxers) is a game that recreates the siege of the Legations, the great colonial power at the end of the 19th century, in Beijing in the summer of 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion. In this one-player game, the player controls the soldiers who defended the legations against the hordes of Boxers, controlled by an original...
L'inafferrabile U-BOOT ("The Unseizable U-Boot") is a game that emphasizes skill and intelligence. The ability to see enemy movements constitute the most valuable help to gain the victory. The gambling behavior is not random, but determined by the navigation tools used according to the tactical thinking of the players. The game represents the various...
L'infanterie attaque ! is a skirmish game for 2 to 6 players. It invites you to relive the confrontations of the Second World War on a smaller scale than usual. Far from the great mass battles, small clashes between small groups of men played a role that was sometimes crucial and not recounted in the history books. In this game the individual soldier is...
L'Italia s'è desta!, Italy has woken up!: these Wargame rules are created to simulate the Italian wars of independence, without being too complicated. To play you need a playing field. The terrain scale varies per scenario, the reference is 1:5.500. Turn Sequence: Impulse of Player A: Bombardment phase Shooting phase Maneuvering phase and charges Melee...