From the late Revolutionary Wars and Egyptian campaign, to the battles of Austerlitz, Borodino, Leipzig, and Waterloo, Absolute Emperor is a mass battle wargame that provides all the rules needed to play during this period of grand armies and sweeping campaigns. Players' armies are composed of multiple corps, with command and control being of the utmost...
From the publisher: A global-level World War II game from Compass Games from the Charles S. Roberts Award-winning design team of Ben Madison and Wes Erni. Absolute Victory features three large maps (39x26 hexes each) covering the entire world on a sliding scale that gives more attention to places of the world (such as Europe) that saw the most fighting...
Miután megbirkóztál az orosz fronttal a No Retreat! széria első felvonásában, a harci játékok szerelmese és tervezője, Carl Paradis újra elmerül a háborúk ezen izgalmas időszakában: Absolute War! The Russian Front 1941-45. Ez a két fővel játszható háborús játék új módon eleveníti fel a náci Németország megszálló hadseregei és a Szovjetunió közötti titáni...
Extract from Design and Philosophy "War is Hell" section of the rules: These rules are intended to cover actions of divisional size. In the main it is intended that players consider their forces to be of about 5 battalion strength. These rules have been kept simple in mechanism in order to provide the players with an opportunity to explore tactics...
Abyss is a strategy game for 2 to 4 players where players become leaders of powerful factions, each trying to bring glory and freedom to their people. Players gain resources to build advanced machines, which help them find even more valuable minerals. On the main board, players discover Random Fields, where they can get Random Cards that offer special...
Ace of Aces is an innovative 1-on-1 combat game that simulates a dogfight between WWI aircraft. Each player has a book with pictures of what they see out the cockpit of their airplane. Each player selects a maneuver (bank left, barrel roll, etc.) and tells their opponent a page number to turn to. This new page, when cross indexed with the maneuver made...
The Powerhouse Series book set pits the Fokker DVII of Georg von Hantlemann against the SPAD XIII of Eddie Rickenbacker. The game provides statistics for several other WWI fighter planes that may be played using this set. The Powerhouse books include a different variety of maneuvers than was used in the Handy Rotary books making for interesting match-ups...
The Flying Machines book set pits a Fokker EIII Eindecker against an Airco DH2 "pusher" plane (meaning that the propeller was at the back of the aircraft.) Because of the pusher configuration, the DH2 has a flexible forward firing gun - a novel addition to the Ace of Aces system. The game also provides statistics for other early-war German aircraft and...
The Handy Rotary Deluxe edition was a revision of the original Handy Rotary Series game book set. The Deluxe Edition came in a bookcase style box rather than a slipcase. The game books use photographs of actual aircraft (the Fokker DrI and Sopwith Camel) to depict the view from your cockpit. The Deluxe Edition rules are printed in a separate rulebook...