This is a WWI trick-taking card game. The 53-card deck is divided into four suits by service: Infantry (blue), Cavalry (yellow), Artillery (red) and Engineers (green). Each card has a detailed illustration of an individual of each rank in dress uniform, and a colored border that includes the value of the card, branch of service, symbol of service, rank and...
Each player is paying 10 tokens into the toll. The order is determined by placing the round tiles face down on the table and each player draws one. The die is then rolled in the order of the colors at the bottom of the guns. The players roll a die and push their grenades further according to the number they rolled. Whoever gets on a red number has scored a...
A two player simulation of the Finnish Civil War that cost the lives of over 37,000 Finns. The war was fought in Finland from 27 January to 15 May 1918 between the forces of the Social Democrats led by the People's Deputation of Finland, commonly called the "Reds", and the forces of the non-socialist, conservative-led Senate, commonly called the "Whites"....
The players start at their harbor at the edge of the game board and have to reach their second harbor on the island in he center of the game board. Movement is determined by a die. When they reach one of the white cicles, they have to go around before advancing to the next circle. If a player gets on an occupied space the gets thrown back according to the...
This WWI German game (the title translates as "Our newest U-boats") is remarkable not only for its great cover and board art, but also for having game pieces that represent six specific German U-boats. Players roll and move alone a 100-space track from Helgoland around the UK and Ireland and back home. 20 English flag stickers wrapped around pins are...
Unsere Wehrmacht im Manover Rot Gegen Blau ("Our Army in Maneuver, Red vs. Blue") is a tiddlywinks type board game about the First World War. On the box cover (artist Hans Friedmann, Munchen) - army cavalry men and horses are galloping from right rear to left front, while infantry marches at upper left below trees. The trifold game board depicts a military...
It began a hundred years ago. Generals imagined it would be a quick Napoleonic-style war to settle nationalist and imperialist conflicts... but soon enough it became a nightmare. Hundreds of thousands suffered and died, as war raged for four years - from the trenches of Flanders to the steppes of Ukraine, from the mountains of the Alps to the deserts of...
Verdun is a 1v1 and 2v2 partnership card game revisiting the German and French armies fighting in the World War I battlefields of Verdun. As their hands dwindle, players will also have to play cards that help the other side, timing it strategically to minimize their own casualties. The teams alternate being the Attacker, mirroring the back-and-forth nature...
The Mud and Blood Mini-expansion adds 18 cards to the box, for Verdun trick-taking card game. This module contains: 4 Dual-sided Mud'n'Blood Reference cards (one for each player), both in English, German and French (total of 12 cards). Tactical cards (2 copies) "Weather Changes" which cancels the Mud and Blood card in play. Module rules are explained on...
This is a late-WWI or early post-war German game depicting the struggle for Verdun. The game board shows an oblique overhead view from the south of the town and citadel of Verdun, surrounded by hills, forts and batteries, and with airships floating over the distant northern horizon. The game appears to be one of point-to-point manoeuver, but the rules are...