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...
Charlie, come in! Where are you? A light machine gun has your squad pinned down. Two of your men have gone out of the fight and the rest are ducked down in cover. All hell’s breaking loose and everyone is looking to you for the answer. Right about now you’re wondering what the heck you’ve gotten yourself into. Welcome to Able, Baker, Charlie! Able, Baker...
Above the Clouds! is a set of air-combat miniature wargame rules for fighting large air battles from the late 1930s through the 1970s. 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...
Absolute Monarch:The long awaited addition to the Absolute Emperor rules system. Here players can use the mechanics they are familiar with in fight major battles of the Seven Years' War. Everything you like about AE is here, but with tweaks to promote the use of linear tactics of the period. Additionally, there is a sub-set of rules for fighting the...
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 Handy Rotary Deluxe edition was a revision of the original Handy Rotary Series game book set. The Deluxe Edition came in a bookcase style box rather than a slipcase. The game books use photographs of actual aircraft (the Fokker DrI and Sopwith Camel) to depict the view from your cockpit. The Deluxe Edition rules are printed in a separate rulebook...
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...
From the makers of Ace of Aces, the WWI dogfighting game, comes Jet Eagles, the Modern Air Combat Game. Gameplay is very similar to Ace of Aces (two books each depicting the view from your fighter jet) with rules for advanced weapons such as missiles. Players each choose their maneuvers, and then using a formula, turn to a new page in their book to see the...