In "Barbarians" one player plays the role of a great Roman Emperor ruling the Roman Empire in the period that goes from its apex to its fall, facing the invasions of Barbarians controlled by the other players. The barbarian players act as Attila, Alarico, or other great Barbarian leaders, looking to spread their population over the rich Roman territories...
Barbarians recreates the situation along the Rhine-Danube frontier of the Roman Empire in the years 70 BC to 260 AD. The game has 32 scenarios which can be played solitaire or by 2 players. Some scenarios can be adapted for play by 3 or 4 players. Scenarios range in playing time from 2 to 20 hours. It has an 8 page rulebook and is a straight forward...
A horde of angry barbarians has landed on a remote island inhabited by peaceful villagers! Eager to please their capricious king, the barbarians have organized the conquest into a contest, with each faction vying to send home the best selection of captives. And so the warriors ravage the island in search of specimens from the strongest tribe to send back...
BARBARIANS & EMPIRES - OCCIDENT ARENA, takes you and your fellow players to the ancient world at the beginning of the third century BC. In this edition you are fighting for the supremacy in the western Mediterranean and Western Europe, the geographical area which the Romans and Byzantines designated as Occident. In the western Mediterranean powers, the...
Barbarossa is set in a fictional Second World War setting in which cute German military girls rush against Moscow to defeat the evil magician Stalin. The game uses the in-game deck-building mechanism from Dominion – that is, each player starts with a small deck of resource cards and during the course of the game one buys cards from an open card pool to...
This is one of a very popular series of games from GMT covering the first months of the invasion of the USSR; units are battalions through divisions, hexes are about 5 miles, and turns are two days. The system encompasses (as of 6/2001) Barbarossa: Army Group North (2000), Barbarossa: Army Group Center (1998), and Barbarossa: Army Group South (1996)....
June 1941 -- the German juggernaut rolls over the Soviet Army. As the tally of encirclements and surrenders mounts, the German advance appears unstoppable to Hitler and many others. However, the officers and men at the front are beginning to have serious misgivings -- not in themselves, but in the pre-war intelligence estimates that they had received. They...
Brief as in both speed of play and File or Case or ... Dossier. :) VERY small footprint Barbarossa game. Like Philip Sabin's classic Eastern Front, only **3** hexes from Warsaw to Moscow, although a different configuration of those. 4 2-month turns, basic hex and counter dice-resolved combat odds system. But lots of combat options including Pressed Attack...
From Panzerschreck Magazine #3 (Fall 1999). Barbarossa Campaign (solitaire, strategic level WW2 east front). Components: 8.5" x 11" map, 186 counters, Economic Display, Reference Sheet, Initiative Index Track, Time Record sheet, 30 Event cards, 51 Economic chits, rules. Description: The player (Axis) launches "Operation Barbarossa" in this strategic level...