Sons of the Desert: Actions of the French Foreign Legion in North Africa, 1890-1925. Complete rules of miniature figures including 11 scenarios. Extract from the introduction: Sons of the Desert uses simple mechanics to permit a large game using many figures without bogging down in numerous charts and tables. The basic concept is that of the "Quality Die"...
Sons of the Great Elephant: The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 is a low-complexity solitaire wargame on the 1879 Zulu War. The game uses point-to-point movement and a chit pull mechanic to simulate events and enemy army formations. The player commands British forces and native allies. On each turn, the player will select a British Leader and build forts, move...
To Mexico, the decade of the 1860s led to a convulsed period characterized by the despotic government of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna as well a devastating civil war, called “The War of the Three Years”, tollowing "The Mexican Adventure" or The second French intervention in Mexico. The game begins right after the battles of May 5th in Puebla and the action...
Designed to be an educational and challenging game in which players compete primarily with Nature and with each other, luck tends to be an element in the game, but can be overcome by careful play. Because the situation is forever changing, there is no single best strategy; however,players must weigh risks against gains with every decision they make and...
In "Spandau 1780", players direct influential personalities and actively shape the development of the region around historic Spandau between 1780-1880. The goal of each player is to fill his cabinet of wonders with all kinds of rare works of art and thus compete with the other players. The player who has collected the most genuine works of art at the end...
A Splendid Little War: The 1898 Santiago Campaign' deals with all aspects of the Santiago Cuba Campaign of 1898. The game covers the entire campaign and includes the Rough Riders, Cuban (and Spanish) Guerillas, Gatling Guns, the US Observation Balloon, Engineers, and just about everything in between. Most of the units are regiments and battalions, and the...
Battle is developed primarily for those people who are just starting to play wargames. It is based on the classic mechanics of wargames, which implies the presence of a playing field, divided into hexagons (with different types of terrain), game pieces reflecting combat units and the use of the so-called "Battle Table". Combat pieces-tokens move around the...
Stars and Bars is a wargame that recreates on an operational scale this Civil War battle [Oct 8, 1862, the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky. Union Gen. Buell against the Confederate Army of Mississippi and Gen Bragg]. Historically this was a victory for the South, although at a price of very heavy casualties. Published in The Wargamer Magazine # 30 with...
STATIONS MANNED AND READY II IS A SET OF NAVAL WARGAMES RULES FOR THE PERIOD 1885 TO 1945 USING SHIPS AND AIRCRAFT This file is a set of PDF files in a Zipped Folder, and is for use as support material when playing SMR II, which is required to make use of these files. The Documents is the Zip folder are: Game Template Booklet Ship Data Description Booklet...