(from the Critical Hit Website:) Shipbase III is the game of naval warfare from 1890-1945. More than just a set of rules, Shipbase III is a computer program that handles all the record-keeping and serves as an interface between you, the gamer, and thousands of lines of code representing years of technical research, allowing the players to concentrate on...
Based on LFG's "Broadside and Salvo", Si Vis Pacem is a set of fast play naval wargaming rules designed to enable the largest battles of World War One, including Jutland, to be played and finished in a day. Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum (“If you desire peace, prepare for war”) was the motto of the Royal Navy at the time of the Great War —description from the...
Based on extensive historical research, Clash of Giants provides the naval wargamer with everything they need to fight the battle of Jutland, either as a battle or as a mini-campaign. Clash of Giants has been written for use with LFG's "Si Vis Pacem" WW1 naval rules, but is adaptable for use with any set of naval rules covering the period. As well as the...
Based on extensive historical research, The Cold Wastes provides the naval wargamer with everything they need to fight the early war battles of Dogger Bank, Heligoland Bight and the Scarborough raid. The Cold Wastes has been written for use with LFG's "Si Vis Pacem" WW1 naval rules, but is adaptable for use with any set of naval rules covering the period....
Strategy & Tactics magazine #135. Sideshow covers World War I in German East Africa (now known as Tanzania). It includes a 22"x34" map, 200 counters, 14 pages of rules. Scale is 16 miles across for each hex, each Strength Point is 100 men or 2 guns, individual leaders. Each turn is one month. The whole campaign lasts 50 turns. Main mechanics are individual...
From the back of the book: Skirmish Elite Tanga is a complete book for recreating skirmish-level battles and campaigns centered the fighting around Longido and Tanga in East Africa in 1914. The book includes eleven scenarios that can be played alone or together in one of two campaigns. Maximum replayability: the Skirmish Elite system features a realistic...
Donald Featherstone is one of the cornerstones of modern miniatures gaming. His first book was published in 1962 and the last one I've seen was published in 1998, but there may be later ones, too. This "game" is only a book - no figures, terrain, dice, etc., are provided. It contains his rules for skirmish miniatures gaming. In skirmish wargaming, each...
Sky Battle by Ideal, was a World War I flying aces game with two plastic bi-planes at each end of a curved board with a plastic frame illustrated with sky, clouds and trailing smoke. Each plane was mounted on a a ball-bearing joystick style gun (with button on top,) much like those used in Crossfire, which you used to shoot out the supporting struts...
„All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.“ (Admiral „Jackie“ Fisher) The outbreak of the First World War, often called „the seminal catastrophe of the 20th century”, is one of the most controversial topics in human history. Many Europeans had condoned war, but hardly anyone could have wanted the unprecedented slaughter that began in...
The Dresden-class cruiser Emden, known as the 'Swan of the Orient', belonged to the German Oriental Fleet during the First World War. She was to be used in the Indian Ocean to intercept merchant ships. Her captain treated the crews of captured merchant vessels with courtesy and behaviour in accordance with international wartime law, and the ship remained...
Soldat is a set of rules for simulating squad level infantry combat during the early and mid Twentieth Century. The rules concentrate on the World Wars, but can also be used for Korea, Indochina and the early Arab-Israeli wars. Unlike the great majority of wargame rules for this period, Soldat concentrates on the role of the infantryman. Combat in both...
This game is an example of a typical boy's "Pop-Gun" game or kit that were released by Gabriel & Sons (as early as 1910), then by Parker Brothers, Milton Bradley, and by Built-Rite. It has has a metal pop-gun, so it was manufactured before the depression. Games like this remained in print through the 1950's before being supplanted by electronic target...