Game was described in an issue of the General, covering the Avalon Hill game called Siege of Jerusalem. Evidently, AH acquired the rights. The AH version is, according to one of the designers, is "...in many respects, quite different from its Historical Perspectives ancestor....New information, or just new ways of looking at things, manifest themselves....
An epic war game on the siege of Jerusalem in 70AD. It is a reimagining/updating/rebuild/new design of the classic Avalon Hill game. As the Roman player you are using all of your skills and discipline to overwhelm the walls and defenders of Jerusalem. As the Jewish player you will have to overcome a lack of training and a fragmented defense to make the...
Siege of Jerusalem AD70 is a two-player wargame simulating the epic Roman assault on the city of Jerusalem in AD 70. The battle pits a veteran Roman army commanded by Titus Flavius against Judean rebels who are making an epic stand. The game system emphasizes command control and the use of both troop and siege units. Players randomly pick command markers...
Published by Avalon Hill in 1989 (for the Third edition). (from MMP's web site:) It is 70 A.D. Dawn breaks on the combined might of four Legions arrayed on the heights of Mount Scopus, starting their methodical advance across the valley to the ancient walled city of Jerusalem. Siege lines have been secured tight about the city. There is no hope of escape....
"The Siege of Khartoum" is a low to moderate complexity tactical wargame covering the Mahdist siege of Egyptian-held Khartoum during the Mahdist Revolution. The game takes about 90 minutes to play. One side commands the Mahdist units and the other side commands the Egyptian and British units. Cards allow variety of play. The object of the wargame for the...
This game depicts the efforts of Army Group North from 1941 to 1944. The area encompassed by the Map sheet covers the Baltic coast up to Leningrad & past-including part of Lake Ladoga, North to past Tikhvin, over to past Demyansk, & South to past Ostrov & Tartu. The RULES have Special provisions for: Railroads; Engineers (Soviets ONLY); Weather effects...
Siege of Leningrad was published as a mini-sim in Issue 9 of Panzerschreck Magazine in 2002/2003. It is an abstract solitaire game where the player controls the Russian defenders of Leningrad and attempts to survive 300 game turns (30 months). The game is consists of 8 pages of rules, a 4.25 x 5.5 "map sheet", an even smaller "scoring track" which records...
“The Fortress of Louisbourg was one of the largest fortifications the French constructed in North America . . . Louisbourg was destined to fall to a New England army in 1745 and a professional British Army in 1758.” “The 1745 siege was conducted by an army raised by the colonial governments of New England who raised, equipped, supplied and transported...
THE TIME IS: 1200 hours, 3 June 1615. The Shogun finally senses the approach of the end of a long term conflict. Toyotomi house still does not submit to the Shogun’s will. Prologue Father Ieyasu had it all thought out - clean up things at Osaka quickly to have a summer saké party with luscious Lady Matsu hime Razan at 1800 hours. The plan is set. Ieyasu...
Two armies march to the relief of the fortress and its exhausted garrison. One from the East, and one from the North, converging on the outnumbered enemy. That enemy was the Army of Italy, the first field command of Napoleon Bonaparte. The fifteen days that followed would make him a legend. Taking as its subject Bonaparte's famous Arcole campaign, Siege of...
Wargame encompassing the entire Siege of Minas Tirith, starting with the attack on Osgiliath and ending after the arrival of the Dol Amroth troops led by Aragorn. Also includes Battle of the Slag Hills, the last battle of the War of the Ring, fought outside the Gates of Mordor. Gondor's task is to delay the dark forces long enough for the ring to be...