These promotional cards are two user-designed guests (gentry) that can be added to the base game Obsession. Over a period of five months, BGG users submitted ideas for two Victorian personalities that featured novel in-game benefits. Eighteen prototypes were developed, a vote was taken, and two promotional cards were selected from among the top...
Put yourself in place of the greatest heroes and commanders of Argentina's history and free this land with honor, wisdom and strategy. Oid Mortales el grito sagrado. LIBERTAD! Oíd Mortales is a trivia game with strategy combat in a board. Players will have to manage tokens, playing infantry and artillery cards which will fight in surprise trivia, where be...
On To Paris!: The Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871 is a Strategic level board-wargame which uses a game-system adapted from Victory Games' “The Civil War”, to simulate the grand events of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) and challenge players to control the leadership, organization and military operations of Armies and Corps during the later 19th century....
On to Richmond! American Civil War Battle Rules for Miniature Soldiers and Aspiring Generals The classic American Civil War rules set, available again in a slightly updated version. In addition to the classic ACW rules set, this edition includes variants for the Napoleonic Wars, the Franco Prussian War, the Crimean War and even Ancients! Included are:...
On To Vienna!: The Austro-Prussian War 1866 is a Strategic level board-wargame which simulates the 1866 Austro-Prussian War. It's a sequel to "On To Paris!: The Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871" using a wargame system adapted from Victory Games’ The Civil War. Players familiar with On To Paris! will be immediately familiar with the scale, system, rules and...
Their names are virtually synonymous with the long conflicts with the native indigenes of the American West. Cochise, Victoria, Chato, Geronimo. These great war band leaders all come from the various tribes of the Apache, and the Apache Wars dominated the attention of the US government in its westward development for the critical 25 years from the American...
A sequel to "One-hour Wargames" from the same publisher. Uses two 54-card decks as randomizer. Part I Early Days of Firearms Chapter 1 The Core Rules Chapter 2 The Age of the Musket Chapter 3 The Rifle Age Part II The Twentieth Century Chapter 4 Wars Within Peace Chapter 5 World War II Chapter 6 The Cold War Part III Extending the Game Chapter 7 Pulp...
From the introduction: One of the biggest problems facing wargamers is finding the time to actually play. Most commercially available sets of rules require several hours to set up and play to a conclusion; some can easily swallow up a whole day or weekend. For many gamers this means that their lavishly prepared miniature armies rarely get used at all....
Origins of World War I appears in Sid Sackson's well-known game book A Gamut of Games. Gameplay is very similar to Origins of World War II, which was published by The Avalon Hill Game Co in 1971, although players have to provide their own game components. The following description was taken from A Gamut of Games introduction of this game: A...
The Battle of Brandy Station, also called the Battle of Fleetwood Hill, was the largest predominantly cavalry engagement of the American Civil War. It was fought at the beginning of the Gettysburg Campaign by the Union cavalry under Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton against Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's Confederate cavalry on June 9, 1863. Game was published in the...
Ostrołęka 26 maja 1831 covers the battle of Ostrołęka, one of the largest engagements of Poland’s November Uprising. It was fought between Polish army commanded by general Jan Skrzynecki and Russian army commanded by field marshal Ivan Diebitsch. The battle was the final part of the operation of Polish army against Russian Imperial Guard. The meeting near...