Battles of the Ancient World, Volume Two, adds more battles to the popular Ancient World series. Scenarios include: Issus, November 333 B.C. Issus was the closest Alexander came to defeat, even though he would go on to face a larger Persian army at Arbela two years later. Metaurus, 207 B.C. During the Second Punic War, Hasdrubal arrived in Italy to...
The third instalment of the Battles of the Ancient World series from Decision Games (I). This standalone game features six battles including: Megiddo 1447 BC Qadesh 1294 BC Lake Trasimene 217 BC Munda 45 BC Boudicca AD 61 Adrianople AD 378 With six battles, this hex and counters wargame, with 520 counters, six maps (on three map sheets), is a traditional...
Marathon and Granicus uses the tried and tested Battles of the Ancient World system which now has clocked up an impressive 17 different battle scenarios spread over 3 boxed sets and 2 magazine game issues. The map is up to the usual high standard of S&T and ancient battles standard. The bay, rises, 2 streams as well as the Persian camp are clearly shown...
Part one deals with the general principles of wargaming with miniature figures while the second part looks at wargaming particular periods from ancient to modern. Some of Featherstone's comments illustrate that the complexity vs. realism debate was not restricted to the board wargaming hobby: "If it is to be acknowledged that the game is the thing, to be...
A set of miniature wargame rules for the Ancient period, encompassing early Greeks through Norman Conquest. "Battlestandard" was designed as a moderate-complexity treatment of Ancient warfare fitting between some recent, simpler Ancients systems and the highly detailed systems that have been hobby staples for many years. The basing system is compatible...
The Bead Game Box is an innovative board game for the modern age. Combined with an online App, it gives you access to more than 100 traditional board games. The Bead Game Box is all about creativity. You can easily share your variations of well known games using the App or you can even create and share your own games. Users also have access to Print&Play...
Bear Yourselves Valiantly is the fourth rule set to feature the Look, Sarge, No Charts! rule system. BYV features dynamic mechanics that allow the players to fight the battle, not the rules. In these rules “realism” is gained through simple mechanics that stress the players’ decision making. BYV provides period feel without pages of onerous charts or...
The game takes place over the five hundred years of "Spring and Autumn Period" and "Warring States Period" in ancient China, before the power structure of old age undergone total collapse and the world was eventually taken over by the First Emperor of Qin. Before the First Emperor is a euro-style game developed around two core mechanisms of "selective...
Behold: Rome is a solo civilization-building card game played without a table. Store and spend resources to develop your civ and build your engine. Conquer wealthy regions, or abandon them to level up your nation. Outsmart and outscore your chosen rival civ to solidify your place in history! Cards have 4 orientations, called levels. Every card level is...
In this auctioning game, players bid to buy plots of land and build temples (requiring 1, 2, or 3 plots to build). The cost(s) of the plot(s) also determines the cost of the temple that will be later built on the plot(s). In the final scoring, players receive a variable score for each temple: a base score depending on the temple size (10, 30, and 150 for a...