Gladiator Gauntlet is a solitaire micro-wargame where the player fights up to 6 rounds of enemies in the colosseum, attempting to win glory and reknown. The player fights each enemy in sequence, matching their own dice versus the enemy's. Whoever wins each dice match causes damage to the opponent. Gladiator Gauntlet utilizes a unique mechanic which...
The floor of the Colosseum (sic) had been divided into two almost equal halves, separated by a tall wooden wall. On each side of the wall wild animals stalked across the hot sands . . . bears, slinking lions and leopards and the solitary tigers who claimed the dubious honor of being the most dangerous of the beasts to hunt and kill . . . Two teams of men...
The Colosseum (sic) squatted like some primeval stone beast in the heart of Rome, its lofty upper arches casting shadows in the late afternoon sun over the sweltering pavement of this, the Emperor's proud capital . . . Dedicated to the Infernal gods, the Roman games proved to be one of the most awesome spectacles of regulated murder ever performed before...
Gladitor Wrecks is a beer-and-pretzels card-driven game of arena combat cars. It is designed to provide three to twenty players a gear-grinding, car-flipping frenzy of metal and violence. There aren't detailed hit tracking sheets, page upon page of options, doo-dads, and gizmos, and complex intermeshing rules. If you want to be an automotive engineer, this...
A game of gladiatorial combat in ancient Rome. Played using counters or miniatures figures (54mm or 25mm) on a hex grid. For two or more players. Gladiators was designed as a system for single figure miniatures combat. But it is more like a role-playing game's combat system than a traditional miniatures system. Combat takes place on a hex grid making...
User Summary This freely downloadable expansion for the print-and-play game Glider-Pit Gladiators (GPG) allows players to create and play continuing gladiator characters who can gain experience and special skills over the course of their careers. The game was first web published in 1999 and updated in 2002. The Campaign Expansion adds rules covering...
Gladiators of Rome is a simple solitaire game depicting gladiator fights in ancient Rome. You are the gladiator and the system controls your opponents. Rules, combat tables, gladiator counters and ratings are provided but you must supply two dice and scrap paper. The game is played without a map and the object is to reduce your opponents' endurance to zero...
Few stories have captured the imagination as strongly as the use of gladiatorial combat in ancient Rome. For centuries it served as entertainment for the masses, serving a similar purpose as modern sports today, albeit in a more barbaric fashion. For the gladiators themselves, it was a harsh way of life in a harsh world – but with the potential to rise...
This simulation covers the Battle of Cynoscephalae, a classic battle between the Roman manipular legion and a Hellenistic force descended from the army of Alexander the Great. The battle was the result of heavy skirmishing and both sides quickly rushed reinforcements to the scene. Therefore, at the beginning of the simulation there are no fixed positions...
Gladus Hereticus is a lite solo dungeon crawler (city crawler really...), using a pack of regular playing cards to generate areas, encounters, loot and for resolving attacks and checks. Work your way through a destroyed city and attempt to survive long enough to assemble the device that could reverse the fate of this place. Level up, gather equipment and...
"EVERY STALK OF CORN IN THE NORTHERN AND GREATER PART OF THE FIELD WAS CUT AS CLOSELY AS COULD HAVE BEEN DONE WITH A KNIFE, AND THE SLAIN LAY IN ROWS PRECISELY AS THEY HAD STOOD IN THEIR RANKS A FEW MOMENTS BEFORE." General Hooker commenting on the cannister fire of six Union batteries The summer of 1862 was a time of peril for the Union. The Army of the...
Gli Eroi della Mitologia is a free Print & Play Italian game for 2, 3 or 4 players set in the Heroic Age of Greek Mythology and allows players to assume the role of the Gods of Olympus trying to control the destinies of their Heroes on Earth. Each player has a certain number of points which he must use to try to control the heroes who have objectives to...