"GIVE US VICTORIES" is a wargame about the Chancellorsville campaign, fought during the American Civil War, when 130,000 soldiers of the Union Northern Army clashed with the much smaller Northern Virginia Army, led by General Robert E. Lee. General Joseph Hooker, newly appointed by President Lincoln, was in command of the Army of the Potomac. Lincoln’s...
At Wake Island an outnumbered Marine Defense Battalion showed the world what they were made of when they fought off a Japanese landing force and secured America’s first but very fleeting victory in World War II. The Japanese flush with victory after ravaging Pearl Harbor turned their sights to the small strategic island but failed to account for the...
The game has been OOP but ATO has done a limited reprint, only available directly from them. You can take it as part of a "Pick 3," or just grab one at a time here: https://www.atomagazine.com/Details.cfm?ProdID=136&category=4 ATO #43 Any study of the early weeks of WWII in the Pacific is certain to notice the campaign for Wake Island, referred to in those...
Prior to publication by The Avalon Hill Game Co, Gladiator was part of the two-in-one Battleline game Circus Maximus. The savage splendor and pageantry of ancient Rome lives again in this game of man-to-man gladiatorial combat. Each player assumes the role of one of a matched pair of gladiators pitted in a contest of arms to the death. Superbly trained and...
From the Publisher's Website, "Written by Barry Hill, Gladiator enables players to recreate the brutal arena combat of the Roman Empire on the wargames table. This full colour 144 page hardback rulebook contains rules for gladiatorial arena contests featuring human combatants, wild animals, elephants and chariots as well as mass battle spectacles and mock...
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...