"Antietam Campaign" is a Grand Tactical hex-and-counter wargame for 2 players. With less than six pages of rules, it is very adept in it role as an introduction to gaming the American Civil War. The developer’s notes indicate that it is a modified installment of the Blue & Gray (SPI) system. The games comes with three scenarios, from nine to thirteen turns...
Increasingly regarded as THE pivotal battle of the civil war, this "mini" game is based on rule systems from Borodino and Austerlitz; included in and shares basic rules with others in the SPI Blue & Gray Folio Series (Chickamauga, Gettysburg and Shiloh) Scale is 400 meters/hex. 1-2 hours per Game Turn. Union Movement Restrictions are used to reflect...
Blue & Gray: Four Civil War Battles is a Tactical level board-wargame where players maneuver colorful card board counters on three color maps of the actual battle sites. A hexagonal grid superimposed upon each map regulates the deployment, movement, and battle engagement of each unit. The colorful counters represent the infantry, cavalry, and artillery...
Conflicts in American History: The Civil War - Module 1 is a SPI published soapbox size wargame consisting of 9 copies of Antietam and 9 copies of Cemetery Hill both wargames from their Blue & Gray series. There is an additional teachers instruction booklet, 2 historical briefings booklets, two test questions booklets and one Bulletin board poster to...
The American Civil War was the bloodiest conflict and a defining event in the history of the United States. The tragedy of the conflict was amplified by the fact the battles were brutally fought with Napoleonic tactics while using new and more lethal weaponry. As a result, over the course of nearly four full years of war, roughly 700,000 Americans were...
Antithesis is an innovative combination of a card game and a war game, designed for competitive 1v1 play. It also has great potential for additional game modes that have not begun to be explored. The game unfolds on a gridded map of 1-inch squares, measuring 27 inches wide and 21 inches deep. Players engage in strategic battles, blending the...
John Theissen’s streamlined approach to operational warfare in the nineteenth century in games such as Hood’s Last Gamble and Campaign of Nations has won him a number of admirers. Now he turns his attention to the last war of the Roman Republic, to the marching of Legions and the sailing of fleets, to the rise of Augustus and the fall of Marc Antony and...
In 36BC the Roman world was divided between Octavian and Antony. Octavian's legions were training for the inevitable clash by campaigning on the Rhine, and Antony needed a campaign to get his forces, living in the luxury of the East, in top shape. Political turmoil in Parthia suggested easy pickings, together with an opportunity to avenge Crassus' famous...
ANTS! The Battle For The Backyard Has Begun is a card and modular board game where each player takes command of the black or red Ant Queen and battles for ultimate control of the backyard! Every playthrough will be different with a large hexagonal play area that changes each time you play! Random events can impact gameplay by causing board pieces to shift...
Anvil-Dragoon is an upcoming game from LPD Games' Campaigns of the Second World War series. From LPD's website: "Allied invasion of South France, August 1944. The Germans must deny the Allies the great ports of Marseilles and Toulon and preserve their far flung garrisons. The Allies must conduct a campaign of mobile maneuver, link up with Patton's Third...
Anvil-Dragoon: Southwall 1944 was the game in issue #60 of The Wargamer Magazine. Anvil-Dragoon: Southwall 1944 is a simulation of the Allied invasion of France during WWII. It covers the time period from August 14th (D-Day minus 1) through September 12 (official date of the linkup between Dragoon and Overlord forces). Before the dawn of August 15th, 1944...