La Grande Guerre is a miniatures wargame designed for entire large battles of the age of Continental linear warfare during the 18th Century. The rules abstract details the brigade level into combat factors and modifiers. When brigade bases contact one another, the infantry/cavalry combat system combines all actions troops took within musket range of one...
Alea Magazine issue 28. Africa 1859-60: the last romantic war. Simulation of three battles of the Spanish-Moroccan War of 1859-60: Castillejos 1859, Wad Ras 1860, Tetuán 1860. Complete game with historical intro, rulebook 3 DIN A3 maps and 200 full color, cut and paste counters. Scale: battalions and regiments, individual ships. Complexity: (1-10): 4....
WAR OF THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE In this wargame for 2 players, ages 14 and up, recreate the war that pitted tiny Paraguay against the Brazilian Empire, Argentina, and Uruguay. When Brazil invaded Uruguay in 1864, no one could have foreseen that this act would spark the largest conflict in the history of South America. Paraguay entered the war in defense of...
A wargame for two players whose theme is the civil war which pitted the liberal rebels against the conservative government in Colombia between 1899 and 1902. This conflict was partly responsible for the secession of Panama in 1903. —description from the designer (translated) Un wargame pour deux joueurs dont le thème est la guerre civile qui opposa les...
In this game, two spacecraft armies fight each other as they try to reach the earth first and conquer it. Each army is composed by 6 combat modules, each one representing one of the signs of the zodiac, and a mothership. The motherships are able to shoot "disc missiles" but only only can move laterally along the gameboard's central circle, while the combat...
On the 12 April 1861 the Confederate army bombs Fort Sumter, starting the American Civil War. On the 9 April 1865, General Lee and his Confederate army surrender to General Grant at Appomattox, ending four years of war. This game recreates the whole war (translation from box cover). This game was published as part of the "second wave" of NAC´s wargames in...
Wargame that represents the Iran-Iraq War. Components: two 65x45cms. boards, 16 pages rules book, two six-sided dice and 210 counters and markers. The boards represents: Persian Gulf and countries, and the Iran-Iraq border line. The game has several levels of difficulty: basic 1 (ground scenario), advanced 1 (airground), basic 2 (aircraft) and advanced 2...
In the early 17th century the Republic of Venice had predominance in the Adriatic Sea, which for centuries had been subject to its jurisdiction and called the Gulf of Venice, but the Archduke of Austria, a Habsburg who ruled with great autonomy Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, part of the Friuli and many other imperial possessions, did not miss a chance to...
"Super Juegos" was a pioneer Spanish magazine about both, board and computer games, which was published between 1984-1985. Every issue included a board game inside, with rules and cut-out counters. As far as I know only eight numbers were published, at least in its first epoch (another publication with the same name would appear years later, this time...
La Guerra per la Sicilia 264-241 A.C. Roma e Cartagine si confrontano per la prima volta. Una guerra senza respiro, combattuta sulla terra e sul mare. Il vincitore non solo otterrà la Sicilia, ma si candiderà a diventare la potenza egemone sul Mediterraneo per i secoli successivi. --- Rome and Carthage confront each other for the first time. A war without...
La Guerre à Outrance is a traditional miniatures game for recreating the larger actions of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. Players maneuver brigades -- whole armies can be fielded to re-play entire battles over the course of a normal gaming session. It is designed to be a fast-play alternative to other grand-tactical systems, and uses a common basing...