The death of Duke John III of Brittany in 1341, just 4 years after the beginning of the Hundred Years War would spark a dynastic conflict between Joan de Penthièvre, his niece, and John of Montfort, his nephew. Both sides would be backed by the Kings of France and England, respectively. Charles de Blois, Joan’s husband, was the primary military leader of...
From the box: "Escalation is a game of war. Begin the game by positioning your forces consisting of battle pieces and mobile missile launchers within your Home Country. Then maneuver them to areas throughout the world as permitted by the dice roll in order to attack an opponent. During the game you can use airbases and ports to achieve a rapid and...
Escalation: Nuclear War in Europe is a comic-book-styled game of espionage, warfare, and nuclear exchange. It is a game for 1-2 players, which begins its story at the height of the Cold War. You take the role of NATO or Warsaw Pact commander-in-chief. Each turn, you start with a set of action cards, which you use to perform actions and trigger events. Your...
Escape of the Estepes is an introductory system to wargames for people who never had a contact with this type of game. The objective is here to show how strategy games can be fascinating, promote the development of strategical reasoning and the taste for history. In 1944 Germany already is already withdrawing from the Soviet Union. Diverse elements of the...
In May 1942, 18 American crewmen scuttle their US Navy minesweeper ship based in the Philippines to prevent it from falling into the hands of the invading Japanese forces. Using a 36-foot US Navy motor launch, the 18 sailors, led by Lieutenant Commander John Morrill (player), begin their 2,000-mile journey through Japanese-infested waters in an attempt to...
The second (and last) of Fractal Dimensions' line of "Gamelets" - comic-book sized games inspired by the microgames of the 1980s. Escape From Dinosaur Island! involves U.S. Marines in the South Pacific, circa 1944, who find themselves on an island filled with prehistoric beasts. The game uses two mapsheets. One is a hex-grid encounter map showing an...
Start with an impenetrable prison swarming with Nastian warriors… stir in a captured princess, heir to the Laylian Empire and all its riches… add a dash of insane alien monsters who want to blow the place to smithereens… and all it takes is the craziest security detail in the Solar Hanseatic League to bring it all to a rolling boil! The result is a recipe...
"Snake, I thought you were dead!" This modest board game, based on the John Carpenter movie, casts each player as Snake Plissken, an ex-con sent on a rescue mission into a giant prison once known as New York City. Players begin with weapons and equipment cards used to help fight enemies and find clues. Cards can be lost in fights or gained at landmark...
Escape from Projekt Riese is the sequel stand alone game to Escape from Stalingrad Z. It is a solo/coop campaign game of tactical combat which is set in the horrific zombie plague of World War Two. It is 1943, the location, a secret underground Nazi base somewhere under the Owl Mountains. Your heroes are the survivors of a allied strike team, fighting to...
The battle of Korsun began on the 25th January with an attack by the Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Fronts forces spearheaded by the 5th Guards Tank Army from the eastern side of the Korsun salient; followed a day later by a second attack form western side of the salient by 1st Ukrainian Fronts forces. The forces of the two Soviet Fronts met each other near...