Trial by Fire is a two player wargame based loosely on the Napoleonic era. The rules are simple and not intimidating for casual gamers, but there are also advanced gameplay options for seasoned wargamers. The beauty of Trial by Fire is that it doesn't get as detailed or complicated as most wargames, but still maintains the realism of battlefield...
This is one of the many TSR rules Booklets published during the mid-1970s. My copy is a 2nd print run dated 1975, but these rules were first printed in 1974. Note: there is NO mention of D&D products listed YET in the back page although the REST of their product line is. I mention this because in my 1975 2nd edition of Jedko's "the African Campaign", they...
Northern Italy, 14 June, 1800: The out-manoeuvred Austrian army attacked the French under Bonaparte, took them by surprise and defeated them quickly in the morning fight. Thinking that the battle was over, they pursued the retreating French. However, when General Desaix arrived with reinforcements in the late afternoon, the French started a defiant...
Triumph & Glory belongs to the GMT Games 'Gameplayer's Series' which has playability as its main objective. The system was taken over by Frederic Bey for his "Jour de Gloire"-system and again used for the GMT game "Borodino: Battle of the Moskova, 1812". Five battles dating from 1796 to 1809 are represented here. The battles include Castiglione (1796)...
The Trivial Pursuit Waterloo and the Route Napoléon, on the occasion of the bicentenary of the epic Battle between Napoleon and Wellington! 330 questions and answers on the theme of Waterloo and Napoleon's road. Le Trivial Pursuit Waterloo et la Route Napoléon, à l'occasion du bicentenaire de la Bataille épique opposant Napoléon à Wellington ! 330...
Vive l'Empereur Series - Vol. IX Vive l'Empereur Series is a simulation of the battles fought during the Napoleonic Era in Europe, between 1805 and 1815. The scale is the regiment, a good compromise between the brigade level (with no formations) and the detailed battalions. The scale is 250 m/hex and a turn is 30 minutes. Jéna, fought on 14 October 1806...
Freeman's Farm and Lundy's Lane were Turning Points in the American Revolution and the War of 1812 for America in the formation the United States Army. Using the Battle Manuver system (first seen in Waterloo), this is a low complexity game designed by Richard Berg. It is a full box game. The Battle Manuver syster game uses cards, one deck for each player...
Turnip28 is a tabletop miniatures wargame for two or more players set in a Napoleonics-inspired post-apocalypse. Players command regiments of a couple of dozen models with rusted bayonets and an obsession with root vegetables. The rules are light and highly lucky, but with strategy coming from having your incompetent units support each other, and...
"I have for my enemy a nation of twelve million souls, enraged beyond measure. All that was done here on the second of May was odious. No, Sire. You are mistaken. Your glory will sink in Spain." -Joseph Bonaparte to his brother Napoleon. "Twelve Million Souls" is a strategic game about the so-called Spanish War of Independence, "Peninsular War", "Guerre...
The Twilight of the Emperor rules is a set designed to fight large historical battles on a reasonable sized table and with a reasonable number of figures. The player is the army commander seeking to marshal the full forces that their historical counterpart had to achieve victory and not some brigade or division commander controlling a few battalions or...
Twilight's Last Gleaming: Battles of the War of 1812, is a collection of three separate battles from the War of 1812 (Bladensburg, North Point and New Orleans), when the British attempted to win the war by seizing key American port cities in a series of amphibious campaigns. Originally published by Decision Games (I) in Strategy & Tactics magazine #184....