Subtitled, "Fighting sea battles with model ships," this is a hardbound book containing many aspects of gaming naval warfare with miniatures. It also includes some other board games one can make with the directions in the book. Contents include: Section One: Games Using Model Ships Naval War Games as Tactical Training Map Games 'Battleships' Commercial...
Naval Wargames Rules Fleet Action 1000 B.C. to 500 A.D. are ancient naval wargaming rules that are simplified enough to allow for large fleet actions using model ships. The ships range from small open galleys to large Hellenistic-era "16s" (sixteen men per oar--the dreadnoughts of their time). Ship models are organized in squadrons of varying size. Each...
From the Back of the Book: "From the very beginnings of maritime conflict to the present day, Naval Wargaming provides the historical background on the ships, their weapons and their tactics. In addition, wargaming rules for each period are provided which can be used straight from the book or modified to suit individual requirements." Contains chapters on:...
Návarchoi is a low to moderate complexity, card driven game that recreates the challenges of fleet command in the age of the trireme. Play is fast and furious, where players use a limited supply of cards (based upon their fleet's quality) to issue strategems to their respective fleets. The fleets are activated using impulses where they move and attack...
Navarchus is a miniature tabletop naval warfare game for scale 1:300 In the third century BC Rome was growing in power, but Carthage stood in the way. The Carthaginians had controlled the Western Mediterranean for more than a century using a fleet of hundreds of war galleys. By coincidence the Romans captured one of these vessels. And because all parts of...
A drawing party game for 3 to 6 players, themed around the ancient NAZCA Lines. Players each draw a picture to match a theme card. On their turn, players cover their drawings with six "cover tiles" and reveal one square per round. Players score points for being the first to guess the correct answer while only seeing part of the picture, and even more...
Near: L'écho des Civilisations ("Near - Echoes of Civilizations") invites you to write 3,000 years of history... Or rather, to rewrite it, drawing inspiration from real-world civilizations, discoveries, and landmark events. All of this in just 3 Ages of 4 turns! What if the Mayans had built the Roman Amphitheater, or the Huns had created the Hanging...
The game brings you back to three thousands and two hundreds years ago, at the court of the great Pharaoh Ramses III, in the ancient Egypt; there you can play as one of the characters (Artisan, Chantress, Embalmer, Noble Woman, Physician, Priest, Scribe, Soldier) who eavesdrop the conspirators plotting to murder the Pharaoh. In order to save him and to...
From the back of the box: Akhenaton, Pharoah of Upper & Lower Egypt, God among men, all powerful sovereign, he trembles before no-one. There is, however, one mistake that even an immortal king cannot afford to make: forgetting his wedding anniversary. Especially when his wife is the exquisite Nefertiti. Alas, the powerful monarch has almost made such an...
Nefertiti - La Barque Solaire is included in Plato magazine No. 31. La Barque Solaire is the French name for the Khufu ship. This is an intact full-size vessel from Ancient Egypt that was sealed into a pit in the Giza pyramid complex at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza around 2500 BC. The ship was almost certainly built for Khufu (King Cheops), the...
As the name suggests, Nefertiti Expansion is an expansion for Nefertiti, the Egyptian auction game that features eight unusual auction mechanisms. This expansion introduces the following: Seven new characters to hire A new market (i.e. a ninth auction mechanism), Memphis Ten foreign gifts cards available only at Memphis Five-player rules and components...