Soldiers of the Queen is actually two separate Colonial battle games that use the same game system: Isandhlwana, 1879 and Omdurman, 1898. The game was originally published in Strategy & Tactics magazine (#95). The game includes an 18"X22" backprinted mapsheet (one side for each battle), a 16 page rulebook, 200 counters, and player aid charts and tables. In...
[From the inside cover] These rules are the product of extensive research into the colonial battles of 1879-1900, and into the battles of the Great (Boer) trek. We have been playtesting for over a year and find that these rules fulfill our design parameters i.e. realistic, fast and fun. We have tried to make them as simple and as easy to learn as possible...
Livret - Jeu défi Nº4 Rules in French only . Book with historical events presentation (15 pages) plus 3 pages with orders of battle plus 4 pages of rules . Game is played in 17 turns . The first two represent 2 hours of real time and the other 15 only one hour each . Game includes a big folding mapboard representing the battlefield and 81 die-cut counters...
Solferino portrays the final battle of the Second Italian War of Independence, a nominal French victory that persuaded Napoleon III to make peace without much attention to the aims of his Italian allies. It was the last battle in Europe (maybe in the world) in which three monarchs commanded armies: the little Napoleon for the French, Victor Emmanuel for...
SOLITAIRE 19th C. WARGAMES contains three simulation games covering conflicts in the last half of the 19th century. It is Vol. 6 in the Minden Classics series of books published by Minden, each containing strategy wargames, specifically designed for solo play. The three games are: ASSAULT AT COLD HARBOR (American Civil War) simulates the Union assault...
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...