Gladius is a 2-player card game. It simulates gladiatorial combat in a Roman arena. Each Player takes on the role of a gladiator. There are 7 types of gladiators in the rules: Secutor, Retiarius, Thracian, Murmillo, Dimachaeri, Samnite, and Postulati. Players share a common deck of 56 cards. There are unique for each gladiator in play. Time your attacks to...
“VOW OF THE GLADIATOR: I submit to being burned, chained, beaten, and killed with an iron weapon." “Supplemental meta-game for Gladius. Players are masters of their own gladiator schools. Buy them, train them, and send them to the arena.” The players start with 50 gold and one gladiator. Slaves come up for auction and are bid on by the players. The players...
A rules supplement designed to be used in conjunction with the Gladius card game and its supplement Gladiator School. The Miniatures Rules “provide a way of using miniature figures to show the relative distance between the fighters and give the game a little more color and realism with only a moderate increase in complexity. The only extra equipment needed...
In Gladius Maximus, two or more players play the part of patrons who purchase, train and equip a cadre (or "familia") of gladiators and pit them against each other's gladiators in the arena. Gladiator matches are almost always to the death. Gladiators who survive must deal with nagging injuries from previous fights, but can learn new skills and earn better...
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...
Glider-Pit Gladiators (GPG) is a free print-and-play board game of ancient aerial combat. The latest version (GPG 2002) is available for download from the files section below. Two to six players control primitive gliders descending into a deep, sheer-walled pit. Within this natural arena the glider pilots engage in ritualistic gladiatorial combat. A...
DESCRIPTION: Have you ever wanted to rule the world? Now you can do so -- with Global Control! This is a card game where 2-4 players compete by using power cards and strategy to outsmart and outplay fellow players. Your objective is to take control of countries from around the globe. Do you save your powerful cards to capture a key country? Do you sabotage...
DESCRIPTION: Neon Nightmare is an expansion for Global Control. Now more players can unleash more power and mayhem, using additional strategic choices! NUMBER OF PLAYERS: 2 additional players (Up to 8 in total) PLAYING TIME: Approximately 60 minutes GAME ELEMENTS: •Original Global Control game is required to play this expansion set. •Creates more card...
From the game..."An exceptionally strange game of exploding children and their cheerfully homicidal baby-sitter in a really alien playpen." As in Ogre and Stomp here is a game with one big powerful unit on one side and a whole bunch of less powerful beings on the other. The difference here is the big and powerful Globbo grows bigger all the time (except...
Thrilling Expeditions: Valley of the Thunder Lizard allows players to play big game hunters in a lost valley populated with creatures from before the rise of man, or have their pirates going ashore on an island where Neanderthals battle Saurians, or time traveling tourists suddenly stranded in Earth’s distant past. This title adds dinosaurs not only to the...
Glory: A Simulation Study of Individual Combat Between 1750 and 1914. "Glory is a skirmish warfare set of miniature rules designed to simulate skirmish warfare from 1816-1900. However, the rules have been designed in such a manner so that players can use them for any pre-World War I musket era skirmish action." Notes on game scale... Play can either be at...
An expansion for Glory: A Game of Knights that introduces: A 5th player with all components needed. Errantry - new way to duel players or NPC knights. Scenarios. A set of conditions that change the base game and force change of the winning strategies. New Titles, Supporters, Travel cards - and more! In addition to the artists known from the base game, the...