A Firebell in the Night is a brigade-level set of rules for conducting battles of the American Civil War using miniature figures. Virtually any mounting system will work. Distances on the colorful charts are listed for both 15mm and 28mm. Developed over several years in conjunction with wargamers, re-enactors and ACW historians. Innovative movement and...
"Universal Skirmish Rules for all periods up to the 1880's, including Fantasy. Fast and playable, includes all the detail to cover any situations in a small scale action. Also perfect for western gunfights. Each miniature figure represents a single warrior. The scale of Fire, Hack, and Run is 1 centimeter equals 1 yard. This scale is easily playable and...
During Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North, Lee learned of a threatening Federal advance East of Hagerstown, Maryland. Because Stonewall Jackson was besieging Harper' Ferry, he instructed Daniel Harvey Hill to hold the South Mountain passes in the rugged Blue Ridge, just East of Boonsboro. It was essential to delay McClellan’s progress so Jackson...
MicroHistory #5 in the Metagaming MicroHistory series. From the 1870's until 1906 was the age of pre-dreadnought battle wagons. The USA, Britain, France and other great powers began to build large navies of advanced ironclads. Fire When Ready explores this neglected era, allowing players to assemble fleets of battle wagons, cruisers, destroyers and torpedo...
NAVAL WARGAMES RULES FOR PRE-DREADNOUGHT ACTIONS Fire When Ready covers actions with pre-dreadnoughts. They come with a set of rules for creating your game statistics for your vessels using published sources such as "Jane’s" or "Conway’s". The rules features an choice of game systems. The "Duel" Game is intended for use with a small number of ships and...
(from the rulebook:) First Afghan War uses the same system as Decision Games' boxed games, "Campaigns of the British Empire" and French Foreign Legion (S&T #200). First Afghan War demonstrates the significant features of warfare in this era, including the great variety in weapons types, the importance of supply, leadership, and the meddling of the Home...
Two player grand-tactical game using the alternating-actions system introduced in Wagram. That system places the emphasis on players’ mastery of overall operations rather than on the minutiae of tactics. In effect, players role-play each side’s supreme commander, making the decisions those two men would make rather than the whole command chain, as is often...
"First Blood" brings two battles, both of which occured at Bull Run/Manassas, Virginia, into the Great Battles of the American Civil War game system. The First Battle of Bull Run puts the green Union army on the road south to what everyone expects to be the only battle in a short war. But Major General Irwin McDowell's larger force meets the rebel army...
Sea Monsters! offers four complete naval simulations that will provide hours of challenging play and comparison. Paul Rohrbaugh with Iron and Fire is a moderate level complexity game covering the battles fought by the Peruvian Ironclad Huáscar during the 1879 War of the Pacific against Chile. It outclassed everything it met but there was only one (think of...
What Fistful of Lead Core Rules are to skirmish level wargaming, Bigger Battles is for large scale wargaming. The beloved Fistful of Lead card mechanics are still there to drive the action, but now each card controls a unit, rather than one soldier. How many units, you ask? How many cards are in a deck, my friend? Yep. You can play 52 units on a table!...
Floating Castles are miniature wargame rules to simulate naval warfare during the 1860-1885 period. The rules cater for any scale with distances measured in yards and speed in knots, converted into inches or fractions. You'll need D10's as the rules are based around percentage rolls for most outcomes. The sequence of play is straightforward and is based on...