(from the back of the box:) The French Foreign Legion is based on a genre of movies and serials that feature hard-cased Legionnaires defending a desert fort against hordes of fanatical tribesmen. The action is fast, furious, and unpredictable as the Bedouins rush the walls, throw their grappling hooks, and climb up for furious melees with the tough...
From Muskets to Rifles… is based upon C’est la Guerre: Fast Play Wargame for the Age of Muskets. This system was designed to provide a fast yet satisfying game play, not necessarily a “realistic” simulation of battle recreation. Bases or ‘Units’ in the game do not represent a certain number of men or artillery pieces but are abstract representations of...
From Shako to Coal Scuttle lets you get the feeling of a big battle, without memorizing hundreds of pages of rules and having to paint a thousand figures first. Covering roughly a hundred years, starting with Napoleon and Washington and ending as the old world romance dies in 1914, an army consists of 8-12 infantry units with a few supporting cavalry units...
Fronteiras de Sangue / Borders of Blood is a system of wargame rules focused on the greatest war in the history of South America, the War of Paraguay, or War of the Triple Alliance, or, still, Guasú War (Great War). The confrontation was fought between Paraguay and the Triple Alliance, composed of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, and extended from December...
Since it's initial publication in 2000, Glorious Adventures in Science Loosely Involving Generally Historical Times (G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T.) has been the standard by which all other sets of rules for Victorian Science Fiction games are judged. The G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T. Compendium includes all the material from four books: G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T., Battles by...
End of the 19th century, ownership of every inch of land or mountain on Earth has been defined with astonishing accuracy by the four superpowers of the world: the English empire, the French Third Republic, the Prussian/German empire and the powerful United States. Nationalism is the dominant ideology and every country is constantly looking for that...
This is an excellent example of a British officer's wargame, designed for the instruction of military personnel in military manouevres; a later British version of "Kriegsspiel", a wargame originally invented by Lieutenant Georg von Reiswitz for training officers in the Prussian army during the early 19th century. The game is played on a map drawn on a...
Garibaldini, all'attacco!, Garibaldini, attack! is a three-dimensional wargame rulebook. It is designed to recreate the battles of the Risorgimento period. It is a simple and agile system, suitable for small / medium sized games, playable in a short time, even in multiplayer. The combat formations are the brigades, made up of the tactical units typical of...
This expansion of Garibaldini, all'attacco!,Garibaldini, attack! lets you play with armies who fought in the battles of the Risorgimento period. In this volume you will find historical battles, clarification of the rules and the army list for the Bourbon troops. This volume does not contain the rules, in order to play ownership of the basic rules...