Crimean War Quad: Balaclava - The Charge of the Light Brigade, 25 October 1854 "Balaclava is a battalion-level simulation of the Crimean War battle that resulted from a Russian attempt to destroy the port of supply for the British forces besieging the Russian fortress of Sevastopol. The battle was fought in the two valleys separated by a ridge north of...
Balance of Power are a set of horse and musket rules that allow players to fight battles with multiple corps per side in a reasonable amount of time. Each turn is 15 minutes, each infantry unit approx 1000 men, each cavalry unit approx 500 and each artillery unit 12 guns. The rules emphasise easy to play game mechanics at the unit level so that a large...
Strategy & Tactics magazine #164. Description from the rule book: Balkan Wars is an operational simulation of the two wars which were fought in the Balkans immediately prior to the First World War. ... There are two scenarios, one each for the First Balkan War and the Second Balkan War. In the first war, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro and Greece fight the...
Relive the First Balkan War in this exciting and quick playing game. Having recently lost Libyan and Adriatic territories to the Italians, the Ottoman Empire has shown its weakness. Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria now see this as their opportunity to expand and claim the Balkans for themselves. Will you maintain the Empire and hold lands held since the 14th...
Four players compete to keep/gain cities of the Ottoman Empire in Europe. The player with most cities under his control after 7 rounds is the winner. The game introduces a 4-outcome mechanism to conclude the result of each attack on a city using a fortune wheel. No dices used at all. Other game mechanisms include cards, pick of advantages from a table...
In the fall of 1861, General McClellan ordered his subordinate, Charles Pomeroy Stone, to make a demonstration on the West bank of the Potomac 35 miles from Washington DC to see if the Confederates might react. A patrol had mistakenly reported a rebel camp ripe for raiding so Stone, in turn, ordered Colonel Deven to advance on the supposed camp. Having...
Description from the publisher: US intervention in Latin-America involved the US Marine Corps, Army and Navy. Caribbean nations were invaded, occupied, and sometimes native politicians deposed. Battles with native rebels were frequent. Protecting and promoting economic concerns lay at the root of US military intervention. Businesses such as the United...
Baptism at Bull Run is a Block wargame recreating the battle of First Bull Run (or First Manassas). Fought on July 21, 1861, First Bull Run was the first major engagement of the American Civil War. Despite opening the engagement with a successful flank march against two smaller Confederate armies, which had only just combined, the Union army would end the...
A set of fast play rules for late ironclad/early pre-dreadnought fleet battles of the 1870s and 1880s. Based on the successful Dahlgren and Columbiad system, the rules include a completely revised stat system to reflect the far larger, more heavily armoured and heavily armed ships of the era. Included with the rule are ship statistics for British, French...
Batalha de São Borja is a postcard game available in issue 1 of Riachuelo Games' Strategos magazine. The Battle of São Borja is one of the opening offensives of the Triple Alliance War (1864 - 1870), in which a small force of Brazilians defend São Borja (in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande dul Sul) against a much larger force of Paraguayans. The...