In September 1703, the Franco-Bavarian army of the Danube clashes with two enemy armies. One is under the command of Count Styrum and the other of the Margrave of Baden. On 17 September, Villars is informed that Styrum’s army is marching on Höchstädt, ready to establish a bridge at Grenheim to launch a combined attack against the French Army at Nodendorf...
The Belligerents (A vivid game of Modern Combat) is one of the few pre-WWII wargames from France. Featuring a board on heavy card stock with various terrain features and a superimposed grid for movement of units. The game is driven by dice rolling and has units representing air, artillery, tank, ambulance, spy, guard, patrol and infantry. Each unit has a...
Les Blindés is a tank battle game for two players. The object is to either destroy the enemy's depot, or to be the last player with a functional tank. No date is given, but based on a sticker on my copy, I believe this game dates to around 1967. Each player starts with a fuel depot, 6 tanks (divided between light & heavy types), a fuel usage board, and...
1859. This is the story of the other — the nephew, the other French emperor, the other Napoleon for the other Italian campaign. Even if the names and places are similar, the events are quite different. This campaign of 1859 is not the campaign of 1796 or even 1800. The revolutionary tide has passed, and the military movement no longer has the same epic...
Les Cent-Heures de Waterloo: La Campagne de Belgique, 1815 (The Hundred Hours of Waterloo) is an Operational level two-player board-wargame that brings into play Napoleon's dramatic and final campaign in Belgium in June 1815. One player controls the Army of the North (hereafter called the French player) and the other the Anglo-Dutch and Prussian factions...
Vae Victis issue 17. This game presents two scenarios set during the "heyday" of the Crusades: Saladin's reconquests and the Third Crusade. The scale is at one turn equals one month, one hexagon is about fifty kilometers, and counters represent about 4-800 men. This is roughly the same system used in "Belisarius" (issue 5), and rules are provided for siege...
Les deux Bretagne (Two Brittany) depicts the conflict for the rule of Britanny between the Blois-Penthièvre and the Montfort-l'Amaury families in 1341-1364 in the middle of the Hundred years' war. The game is driven by 2 sets of cards which are used as events or action cards. The map shows Britanny divided in areas. It includes: - a 41 x 30 cm map - 290...
Published in Vae Victis nº 77, this expansion adds new cards, rules and counters for the original game Les deux Bretagnes (Vae Victis No. 76) which covers the dynastic struggle in Brittany during XIII and XIVth centuries. The new cards are added without surpassing the total activation value of the player. They can also replace other cards with same...
A war game set in Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha, wherein players move armies composed of the five tribes of Prax--the Bison, the Morokanth, the Sable, the Impala, and the High Llama. The explanation of the game in the original rules describes it such: "This game is the second of an interlocking triad of fantasies which deal with various aspects of...