In 1823, U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams wrote to the American Minister to Spain, noting that Spanish-ruled Cuba would likely be annexed by the United States within the next 50 years. Despite several attempts, that did not happen, though in 1898 the U.S. defeated Spain and made Cuba a puppet state. In Caribbean Empires, Part One, the Maine crisis...
In 1897, the Japanese Minister to Washington urged his government to send a strong naval squadron to Hawaii to block the pending American annexation of the island kingdom. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt ordered planning to begin for a naval war with Japan. The Japanese decided that the annexation could not be stopped, while Roosevelt...
In the months just before the Russo-Japanese War, agents for both empires scoured the globe for additional warships they might purchase or, more often, stop the other side from purchasing. But you can have them all (for free, at least at first): Argentine and Chilean armored cruisers; Turkish, Chilean and Brazilian coast defense ships. We have their...
"Gringo! The Mexican War 1846-1848" is a Post Napoleonic era wargame depicting five battles of "The Mexican War". For the battles in Gringo!, both sides run the gamut from mountain assaults to street-fighting, allowing wargamers to see some of the differences between ACW-era tactics and those of the Napoleonic era. The battles included are: Buena Vista...
A nearly complete game published in RBM Studio's C3i Magazine No. 16 (2005). The issue contains die-cut counters, map, charts and special rules for the battle. Players must have the basic rules from Gringo! (or download them from the GMT Web site) to play. The game is a minigame based on the Great Battles of the American Civil War game system. The map is...
Battles with the Gringos includes four half-map engagements that are each different, each with its own, unusual terrain, each with a set of problems facing both players. And each battle takes only a couple of hours, as well as being very playable solitaire. Palo Alto: May 8, 1846. The opening battle of the war, what looks to be a straightforward Napoleonic...
Grochow 1831 covers fours battles of the Polish November Uprising, the war between Kingdom of Poland (an autonomical part of Russia after the Vienna Congress) and the Empire of Russian. The First Battle of Wawer was fought on February 19 and 20, 1831. Polish forces, led by Jan Skrzynecki, defeated Russian 1st Corps, commanded by Hans Karl von Diebitsch....
Guerilla ! is a miniature skirmish ruleset published in Vae Victis magazine issue #15. The game simulates battles of the mid-nineteenth century, especially the many colonial wars of the era. The game uses a simple chit-pull system to alternate figure activation. An activated figure can move and/or fire, reload a weapon or attack in close combat. The rules...
Against the Odds magazine #23 Americans seldom notice the enormous changes that the Napoleonic Wars caused to the Western Hemisphere...things far larger and with much greater effects than our own War of 1812. The Louisiana Purchase really started it, as Napoleon sold Jefferson a large block of land that really "belonged" to Spain. In shifting their forces...
War in the Pacific is a board game set in the armed conflict that took place from 1879 to 1883 in which Peru and Bolivia fought against Chile, for 2, 3 or 4 players of ages 8 and older. There are two sides for which you can play: the alliance of Peru and Bolivia or Chile . The goal is to achieve 10 victory points or take one of the enemy capital cities...
Gunfight at O.K. Corral simulates the most famous gunfight in the Old West, when the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday dispatched the Clanton-McLaury gang in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, in 1881. The solo game allows you stand in the boots of the participants (you play the lawmen, the system handles the outlaws) during this “30 shots in 30 seconds” encounter...
Gunpowder Period: Quick play wargames rules for 1560AD - 1885AD The design philosophy of the Gunpowder rules provides a simple approach that can be used to play wargame battles at brigade or higher command levels, irrespective of the figure scale (6mm, 10mm, 15mm, 25mm and even 1/32 scale) with your own current models and common basing formats currently in...