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...
The Brittany War of Independence 1487-91 simulates the conflict between the Kingdom of France and the Duchy of Brittany. The war ended with the defeat of the Britons and the marriage of the Duchess Anne to the King of France Charles VIII, sealing the annexation of the Duchy to the kingdom. This game is part of the Gold and Steel series which allows the...
Early August 1870. The Prussian Chancellor Bismarck has accomplished a diplomatic master stroke thanks to the Ems Dispatch: France has just declared war on Prussia. Prussia was able to gather all of the German states around it while Napoleon IIIs empire remains alone with no nation willing to support the perceived aggressor. In Paris, the belligerent...
The Hundred Years' War was a highly complex conflict in terms of its duration, the many players involved and the succession of wars and truces over a very long period of 116 years! Rides, pitched battles, sieges, ambushes, looting, assassinations and betrayals were all part of the story. So it was a challenge to simulate this complex, non-linear war. Few...