Divine Right combines combat, diplomacy, and role-playing into 2-6 hours of fast-paced action as each player attempts to build and hold together an alliance of kings long enough to defeat the other players and win the game. The kingdoms of humans, elves, goblins, dwarves and trolls are pawns in the power games that absolute monarchs play. Ambassadors vie...
Two sets of variant components for Divine Right, and accompanying rules articles by Jon Freeman, published in issue 34 of The Dragon magazine (February, 1980). The 12 ambassador cards give names and diverse personalities to the ambassadors in Divine Right. Each player receives an ambassador personality card at the start of the game. The cards specify...
Starting in 1997, Glenn Rahman designed an extension to his fabulous game Divine Right. Scarlet Empire took place in a different period in that game's world, and further to the south of the original map. It was designed as a stand alone game that could also be played in combination with the other one. The campaign game pits most of the players against the...
From The History of Zorn and the Goblins: During Zorn's "Brothers' War", Ortwir boldly raided Immer for supplies. In reply, King Reglissar made common cause with Sirdar Nystul and helped destroy Ortwir's army at Shrieker's Scrub. Ortwir escaped capture and fled far to the South, offering his services to the dreaded lord of the Witchlands, in whose employ...
'Divine Wind: Japan in the Pacific, 41-45. A strategic scale game with one-month turns, 250nm hexes, and units representing naval divisions, infantry divisions, corps, armies, and fleets. "The simulation is on the grand strategic level and thus has the players, representing the heads of the combined Japanese and Allies commands, making decisions as to...
Division Commander is a set of miniatures rules designed for very high-level World War II operations. Each stand is a battalion, the ground scale is 3" = 1 mile, and turns are 90-180 minutes. The rules are designed from the ground up to play multi-day campaigns with multiple divisions per side. Like Bruce's "Great Battles of World War II" rules, one of the...
The huge influence of Napoleonic combat systems, tactics and weaponry (the flintlock musket was the standard weapon for all Armies until the later 1840’s), meant that they remained the standard throughout the world until the full development of the rifled musket. This weapon, which used percussion caps rather than a spark from a flint, together with rifled...
Dixie appeared in Strategy & Tactics magazine #54, Jan-Feb 1976 as well as a folio edition. From the introduction: Dixie is a brigade/division/corps level simulation of an alternate-history conflict. Dixie posits that the Confederate States of America had successfully waged the first American Civil War and survived as an independent political/economic...
Gather your armies and fight over 3 positions. Cards represent infantry or cavalry regiments or artillery batteries. The uniform colors and styles are the uniforms that the regiments actually wore (according to the designers). You also have cards representing the participating generals , terrain and the ever present special events. It is a collectible card...
Gather your armies and fight over 3 positions. Cards represent infantry or cavalry regiments or artillery batteries. The uniform colors and styles are the uniforms that the regiments actually wore (according to the designers). You also have cards representing the participating generals , terrain and the ever present special events. Dixie is a collectible...