On March 23, 1862 and then again on July 24, 1864 the area around Kernstown, Virginia witnessed clashes between Union and Confederate forces. The Pritchard House and Pritchard's Hill were central to both battles as they abutted the Valley Turnpike. At First Kernstown, Stonewall Jackson erred in taking scouting reports at face value and so he unknowingly...
King's Favor is a semi-cooperative game for 4 - 12 players set in an aristocratic world. The King is dying and has no living heir. You play a noble from one of the four great houses that jockey to succeed him. However, three powerful guilds each see a chance to build a new era. Many of the nobles hold secret positions within those guilds. These allegiances...
User summary: 皇帝なき帝国 (Koutei Naki Teikoku) is themed on the Interregnum in the Holy Roman Empire. But the game centred around the placement of numbered tiles and their effect. The main focus is on control using the Knight placement from Chess. An area-control game themed on middle-ages Germany, where your goal is to gain control of Cities and Nobles....
La Bataille de l'Ebre, 1938 (The battle of the Ebro) is a simulation of the first decisive days of the largest and bloodiest clash of the Spanish Civil War: the Republican Ebro offensive and the subsequent Nationalist counteroffensive(July-November 1938). The game is designed to simulate the combats that occurred from July 25th to August 4th 1938 on the...
"La Campagne de Gettysburg, 1863" covers the Gettysburg campaign from June 22 to July 13, at two days per turn. Fog of war is significant, as befits the scenario, and rules also exist covering engineering operations, weather, reinforcements, and munitions supplies. The map covers an area from Harrisburg PA in the North to Harper's Ferry in the South, and...
A wargame for two players whose theme is the civil war which pitted the liberal rebels against the conservative government in Colombia between 1899 and 1902. This conflict was partly responsible for the secession of Panama in 1903. —description from the designer (translated) Un wargame pour deux joueurs dont le thème est la guerre civile qui opposa les...
On the 12 April 1861 the Confederate army bombs Fort Sumter, starting the American Civil War. On the 9 April 1865, General Lee and his Confederate army surrender to General Grant at Appomattox, ending four years of war. This game recreates the whole war (translation from box cover). This game was published as part of the "second wave" of NAC´s wargames in...
La marcha sobre Madrid is a wargame portraying the advance of Nationalist forces from Andalucia to Madrid during the first stages of the Spanish Civil War. The object of this advance was to take the Spanish capital and put a rapid end to the war before the Republican forces could reorganize. The advance failed in the last moment and Spain was doomed to...
From the Box: Land of the Free is a simulation of the political turmoil in America during the period of the Great Depression, 1930-1941. The economic devastation caused by the financial irresponsibility of the Roaring Twenties created massive job losses, business failures, and a crisis of confidence in the political institutions of the day, including...
On 18 July 1936, various generals in the Spanish army rose up against the government of the Second Republic. The failure of the coup as it had been originally planned gave way to a civil conflict between the defenders of the democratic government and the backers of the military coup. Machado’s two Spain's fought each other for nearly three years in a...