Each game in the HISTORICAL SERIES contains a trio of strategic simulations utilizing the same system which feature: Plastic pieces and metal markers; Three separate laminated mapsheets; Only eight pages of standard rules; Hidden force attributes, and; A unique correlation of leadership, morale, troop quality, and strength ratings. Emphasis is on...
By Jove has a booklet and a board game based on the stories from Greek mythology. Fairly standard roll and move game. As much a family educational game as anything else. (Which was typical of the publisher's output). A nicely illustrated board, plastic gold coins, cheap perforated card stock. Game features wandering Greek heroes on quests, Jason's Voyage...
Byzantium is the name given to both the state and the culture of the Hellenic Empire in the middle ages. Both the state and the inhabitants always called themselves Hellenes/Roman, as did most of their neighbors. Western Europeans, who had their own Roman Empire. The eastern Europeans called them Orientals or Greeks (Hellenes). Byzantion was the ancient...
From the rules summary: Each turn represents one year in the life of a Roman estate. Until the War deck is exhausted, players are jockeying for position trying to get the most votes. Whoever has the most votes at the end becomes Caesar and wins. Each player is a senator starting with a modest estate, influence in the senate, and two legions to command....
"Caesar: Epic Battle of Alesia" is a wargame that simulates an epic battle in 52 BC where Julius Caesar surrounded the battered forces of the Gauls led by Vercingetorix. Knowing the Gauls had a relief force coming (of over 250,000 men), Caesar built a defensive perimeter facing outward to match his perimeter facing inward to beseige Vercingetorix. An...
In 58 BC, Gaius Julius Caesar was appointed by the Roman Senate as proconsul for Gaul, for which he was given four legions. The ambitious Caesar, a military ingenue, had little idea of how lucky he was going to be -- as he was in usually everything he did -- because, within a short space of a few years, after coming to the rescue of the Gauls against...
This expansion playable with either Caesar: Conquest of Gaul or by combining The Great Battles of Julius Caesar: The Civil Wars 48-45 B.C. with the The Great Battles of Julius Caesar: The Civil Wars 48-45 B.C. – Dictator module. This module came in RBM/GMT's C3i Magazine Nr11. This module covers two battles with the Germans battling the Romans including...
The Medway AD 43 Wales AD 51 Caratacus covers both the main battle and the last battle in the efforts of Rome, and the Emperor Claudius, to conquer the Britons and enlarge the empire's boundaries. The Roman legions and the commanders sent to accomplish this were of the highest ability available. The Britons were still a mobility-oriented, light army....
For those of you who can’t stand someone who wins all the time, here is an opportunity to game one of Julius Caesar’s rare losses. The Battle of Gergovia was Caesar's failed attempt to wipe out the threat of a large Gallic uprising by isolating and defeating a gathering of the Arverni, plus several other Gallic contingents, under their new chieftain...
For Caesar: Conquest of Gaul, we have Spartacus! with five scenarios by C3i GBoH Editor Dan Fournie. This article will feature the Battles of Salinae, Mount Garganus, Picenum, Camalatrum and Silarus River. Spartacus! will introduce the new ‘gladiator swordsmen’ unit, and pits the ragtag slave army against a series of Roman commanders and legions. The...