These are miniatures wargaming rules for the 1879 Zulu War and Boer-Zulu conflicts. These rules are designed to be used with either 25mm, 15mm or 5mm figures with 25mm driving infantry bases of 20mm x 20mm for the British/Boers or 20mm x 30mm for the Zulus. Largest base would be for a field gun at 60mm x 80mm. Each figure is supposed to represent 15 men....
Abdec is a forgotten textbook about the writing system of the weird and elusive "Abb" creatures. Their typography resembles devilishly difficult packing puzzles. Due to a fire accident that burnt important pages in the book - the last remaining Abdec book in the world, which was also scanned for this reissue - players need to figure out how the Abdec...
About Bonaparte: Miniature Wargame Napoleonic rules for 25 to 54mm. Artillery is classified by weight , having light, medium, and heavy designations. Light artillery can either be foot or horse, while all other weights are foot. Infantry has line (standard), skirmish, and irregular troop types. Cavalry has heavy, medium, light, lancer, and irregular troop...
Above the Clouds! is a set of air-combat miniature wargame rules for fighting large air battles from the late 1930s through the 1950s. The rules are intended to produce a free-flowing and fast game to represent air combat. Although air warfare is a very technical form of combat, rules which focus too much on the technical details quickly lose the "feel" of...
Resolution 181 is an expansion for the Above the Clouds! air-combat miniature wargame rules. It covers the Arab-Israeli conflict from 1948-1983. Resolution 181 is intended to provide enough background information for Above the Clouds! aficionados to generate interesting missions set in the various clashes of the Arab-Israeli conflict. This conflict has...
From the late Revolutionary Wars and Egyptian campaign, to the battles of Austerlitz, Borodino, Leipzig, and Waterloo, Absolute Emperor is a mass battle wargame that provides all the rules needed to play during this period of grand armies and sweeping campaigns. Players' armies are composed of multiple corps, with command and control being of the utmost...
Extract from Design and Philosophy "War is Hell" section of the rules: These rules are intended to cover actions of divisional size. In the main it is intended that players consider their forces to be of about 5 battalion strength. These rules have been kept simple in mechanism in order to provide the players with an opportunity to explore tactics...
Ace of Aces is an innovative 1-on-1 combat game that simulates a dogfight between WWI aircraft. Each player has a book with pictures of what they see out the cockpit of their airplane. Each player selects a maneuver (bank left, barrel roll, etc.) and tells their opponent a page number to turn to. This new page, when cross indexed with the maneuver made...
The Wingleader Deluxe Boxed Set doubled the number of aircraft in the original version of the game and added rules for a campaign game. The Ace of Aces Collector's Guide, by Joseph J. Scoleri III, has this to say: "The Wingleader Expansion Set was a special addition to games distributed by Chessex Manufacturing. The expansion was added at the time that...
Achtung Jabo! is a solitaire wargame about the 371st Fighter Group, which flew ground attack missions on D-Day in the P-47D Thunderbolts (known for its famous "Razorback"). Gameplay depicts the Group's missions on D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the book includes extensive research into the techniques, history, and practices of Allied fighter-bomber units at the...