The Mapsheet is 21 1/2 inches by 27 inches and is Light GREEN overall, with GREEN, BROWN, and Dark BLUE graphics. There are a Terrain Effects Chart, Turn Record, Points Record, and Combat Results Table on the Mapsheet as well. FROM the Rules Booklet: "The Map board shows the section of the Little Big Horn River and surrounding area where the 7th Cavalry...
Custer's Last Stand is a Tactical level Free mini-wargame. American West: Indians vs Soldiers. Each figure represents a group of cavalry soldiers or Indian braves. Victory: Destroy your enemies completely.” The game is played on an 8x8 grid or chessboard. The middle four squares are each occupied by one Soldier. All edge spaces each contain one Indian. A...
"Custer's Last Stand" is an old school board-wargame of two of the most famous battles of the 1876 Sioux Campaign. You get the battles of Rosebud Creek and the Battle of Little Big Horn. The game comes with a large double sided hard mounted game board, 2 sets of rules, 2 double sided player aids, two ten-sided dice, 3 counter sheets,and a playbook. Now be...
Four scenarios re-create the U.S. Army’s ill-fated 1876 campaign against the Sioux and their allies. One to three players (all scenarios play solitaire) direct the various army commands: Crook’s, Terry’s/Gibbon’s and, of course Custer’s. The Indians move on the results of a double-dice roll against a wander table. There are rules for scouting, surprise...
"Custoza, Fields of Doom" is the name of the first wargame of a series, using the same rules system, named “Risorgimento”. The Operational Game System “Risorgimento” simulates the battles and campaigns of the Wars of the Italian Independence (1848 – 1866) at regimental and battalion level. The system does not deal with the tactical formations of the...
Dakota is inspired by the conquest of the American West, and employs linear mechanics. Players take control of a group of settlers or a tribe of natives and then cooperate and compete with the other players for natural resources, which have different values for the different types of players. The mechanic allows for unequal numbers of settlers and native...
In the early morning hours of March 9th, 1916, Pancho Villa launched an attack on the sleeping town of Columbus, New Mexico, and the adjacent US Army camp. Villa’s intelligence operation had failed. Having ordered the men forward, he was unaware that so much of the US 13th Cavalry was at Camp Furlong that night. After hours of confused combat in the...
The Mexican assault on the Alamo. This game uses the Hougomont : The Rock of Waterloo system. A small group of Texans defend the fort of Alamo against the veteran army of Santa Ana. Victory is determined by how long the Texans can hold until they bite the dust as well as casualty level of the Mexicans. Chrome includes 'dead markers' to indicate where...
"Dawn of Empire: The Spanish American Naval War in the Atlantic, 1898" is an uncomplicated wargame centered on the naval aspects of the Spanish-American War of 1898 in the Atlantic Ocean. The game depicts this conflict at a strategic level, with most operational and tactical details represented by fast and easy-to-play systems, rather than intricate...