Part of the Roman Empire and home to many of the infamous Gladiators of the age, Capua became hotly contested in 212 BCE. In this quick card driven game for 2 to 4 players, you take on the role of a General trying to grab control of the city. In order to win, you will need to build a strong army and best your opponents through six battles. The game is...
“Fought near Chaeronea, in Boeotia, this was the greatest victory of Philip II of Macedon. There, Philip (with 32,000 men) defeated the smaller combined forces of Athens and Thebes, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece. The battle itself pitted the classical phalanx of the Athenian and Theban confederates and the Macedonian phalanx of Philip.” A...
Issue game in Command Magazine Japan #111 On November 1943, the Japanese 11th Army began its attack with the goal to capture the Chinese city of Changde. The Japanese rapidly achieved its goal and defeated the Chiense forces around Changde however one KMT Chinese division, the 57th "Tiger" division entrenched itself at Changde and fiercely resisted...
The Battle of Changsha is a two-player, operational level game of the second (September to October 1941) battle for Changsha, China, capital of the Hunan Province. The second battle in 1941, resulted in the city being captured by the Japanese, and then being recaptured by the Chinese 9th Army Group commanded by Gen. Xue Yue. The third battle was originally...
A self-published, SPI quality (circa 1974), wargame of the American Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, 20 Sept., 1863. A legal-sized white envelope with a b&w sketch of the battle containing: 2 8 1/2" x 11" typewritten pages of rules (SPI ACW Quad complexity) 1 page of Order of Battle and Set-up 1 page with Combat Results Table and Terrain Effects Chart...
The Battle of Corinth simulates the battle that occurred on 3-4 October 1862 near Corinth, a Mississippi town just south of the Tennessee border. The town was a vital cross-link for the two main Southern railroads: the Mobile and Ohio (the north-south line) and the Memphis and Charleston (the east-west line) railroads. The Union had captured Corinth...
On January 17, 1781, Banastre Tareltons' [sic] Brigade of Light Infantry broke cover shortly after dawn, and faced a low hill sloping to a crest about 1/2 a mile away. A few hundred yards away were the American Rangers, the three light infantry companies that formed the pickets of the American position. Behind them, about half way up the slop stood 300...
The Hundred Years War In 1337, based on the strength of his claim to the French throne as a direct descendant of Philip IV through his mother, Isabella of France, Edward III of England refused to do more than simple (non-liege) homage for Guyenne to the French King Philip VI. The resulting war that started shortly afterward between France and England...
This is a classic English Civil War battle with the Parliamentarians trying to seize an opportunity by catching the Royalist army on the march towards Oxford. Led by the King the Royalist army responded quickly with the ensuing battle playing out over a large area, in three phases and with a similar amount of Horse and Foot. Presented as a “mini-campaign”...