Champs de Bataille III: D'Alexandre à Hannibal has been published in Vae Victis issue 30. This Tactical level board-wargame is the third installment in the "Champs de Bataille" series of games, board-wargame versions of the De Bellis Multitudinis (DBM) miniatures rules. This issue includes counters and army lists for Alexandrian Macedonians, Imperial...
The fourth appearance of the "Champs de Bataille" system from Vae Victis, this appeared in the Nov/Dec 2003 issue (#53). This includes army lists and counters for Japan, Korea, the Mongols, and the Ming and Yuan Chinese--Asian land warfare from the thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries. Based on the De Bellis Multitudinis (DBM) miniatures rules from...
This was the first of the Champs de Bataille (Battlefield) games, based on the DBM miniatures rules, which would reappear frequently in subsequent issues. It features armies to cover the battles of Soissons (486) and Poitiers (732--better known in English as the battle of Tours)--thus, it has Franks, Gallo-Romans, East Franks, and Saracens. As with all Vae...
Champs de Mars - Napoleon's Battles is a series of modules that details the land battles of the Napoleonic and French Revolutionary Wars. It provides the Orders of Battle and maps of the large battles as well as the smaller combats of an entire campaign, as well as the odd battle that were fought on the periphery of the main theatre. Designed to be a...
Champs de Mars - Napoleon's Battles is a series of modules that details the land battles of the Napoleonic and French Revolutionary Wars. It provides the Orders of Battle and maps of the large battles as well as the smaller combats of an entire campaign, as well as the odd battle that were fought on the periphery of the main theatre. Designed to be a...
Chancellorsville 1863 is a card-driven game on the American Civil War Battle of Chancellorsville. Playable by 1 to 2 players in 1 hour, the game comes with a card-driven solitaire engine. Designed by Maurice Suckling (designer of Freeman's Farm 1777), the game uses many of the concepts from that game. However, added hidden movement, much more maneuver, and...
Chancellorsville: Bloody May, 1863 is a two-player wargame simulating Jackson’s infamous flank attack that occurred west of the Chancellor House (Chancellorsville) on May 2, 1863. As the Confederate player, you must try to crush Hooker’s unsuspecting army. As the Union player, you must regroup from the initial shock of the blow, hold onto the Chancellor...
Chancellorsville was the third "Tournament" wargame from The Avalon Hill Game Co. It marked the introduction of hex based maps to the hobby (contemporaneously with D-Day and Gettysburg) It also marked an unfortunate experiment in early wargame map graphics -- instead of using illustrations to depict terrain features, the hexes were simply filled with a...
The Army of the Potomac had found confidence in their new leader "Fighting" Joe Hooker following the disastrous battle of Fredericksberg. Hooker began forging the AOP into the weapon he and Lincoln knew was needed to defeat the Army of Northern Virginia led by Robert E. Lee. Using his cavalry aggressively in conjunction with the newly formed military...