At first glance, the basic game bears some resemblance to Stratego. Players set up rows of pieces blind to each other, maneuver around terrain features in the middle of the board, and capture pieces based on a set of value scale rules. However, there are some unusual twists even in the base game: - A player can move forward to a space occupied by another...
Battle Stations is a low complexity board game of naval conflict concentrating on the operational level. The game depicts the various areas of potential conflict on a series of maps scaled to about 24 miles to a hex. The interactions of surface, subsurface, and naval air forces are depicted by silhouette style counters. The data base of Seapower & the...
Battle Stations! 1/2400 Naval Rules by Decision Games. Battle Stations! Battle Stations! Naval Rules for Fleet Sized Combat for Miniatures So now that you have the ships how are you going to fight with them? There are only just a few rule sets out there and all but one are mired in detail and lend themselves to small actions of four ships that is if you...
Battle Sword is a free miniatures war game with a unique combination of features: Aimed at adults with kids, (ca 5-10 years) that want to participate in the complex games we adults play, but are still too young. This streamlined miniatures war game can be played by kids with any random mix of miniatures (tin soldiers, toy soldiers, sci-fi, historical or...
This is an updated version of the game originally published by Yaquinto Publications in 1979 and out of print since 1984. It is an abstract war game for novices and veteran gamers alike, using variable “battlefield tiles” and wooden playing pieces. Unit combat values depend on the terrain they occupy and change as they are moved. The game depends entirely...
A very introductory level wargame, kind of a "Stratego meets Tactics II." The object is to eliminate the opponent's HQ unit. Different eras are represented by changing the values and abilities of each unit. The counters are labeled with standard NATO insignia. Depending on which era is being played, there will be different numbers and types of the counters...
The Classic Just Got Better! Will "the Guard" take the hill at Waterloo this time? Wellington called the battle "a near run thing," and in fact, many of the battles of the period were just that... close affairs that tilted on a key decision or a critical error. Now, LBG gives you a chance to explore some of those great battles, with an evolution of a...
In A Battle Through History, each player wears the clothes of a time-traveling storyteller whose journey through historical eras enables them to relive epic battles alongside legendary troops and heroes. During a game, players play era tiles into the "Gear of History" to customize their deck of cards and move their character in space and time in order to...
From the Jiggi Games website: "The US invasion of Iraq is now being played out all around the world. Jiggi Games has incorporated the events of the Iraq war into a reality board game. Each player commands 3000 troops as you battle your way through Iraq. You will take out airports, night bomb cities, hunt down Saddam Hussein, and take over Baghdad...but...
Battle to the Gates of Hell, Bunker Hill June 17, 1775 On the night of June 16th, 1775, Colonel William Prescott of the Massachusetts Army of Observation and his regiment were ordered out onto Charlestown Peninsula under cover of darkness to erect fortifications in preparation of a forthcoming British attack there. Fortune had conspired with the Americans...
A set of miniatures War-game rules for Space Battles in the Star Trek Universe. Battle Trek uses a points allocating system, which is the first thing you do in each turn. Than the most important action is next, the initiative phase which decide which ship goes first in the action phase, but it might be better to go later in the turn. Special actions phase...