(from ATO website:) Americans hear it on the news and wonder. July 12 in Ireland has become a day of pride and anger, lawsuits and fisticuffs. Called “The Twelfth,” it commemorates the Battle of the Boyne, 1690, when William of Orange (hence today’s Protestant “Orangemen”) and his polyglot army ended the Jacobite hopes for James II to regain the throne and...
This is a standalone game using the Limits of Glory system to examine the impact of events on the Civil War in the Vendee in 1793. Will you fight for the Republic or For God and the King; The Catholic and Royal Army, take the side of the Blue or the White. The French Revolution was not welcomed by all in France. The staunchly Catholic and Royalist leaning...
The last, and most famous Jacobite Rebellion is about to commence. This Limits of Glory game recreates the events at both the beginning and the end of the Rebellion in two separate scenarios. Players take the role of either the Jacobites commanded by Bonnie Prince Charlie or the forces of the British government determined to crush the rebellion. The first...
December 1796. Wolfe Tone stands on the deck of the Indomptable staring at the coastline of Ireland dancing about as his ship swayed and lurched in the storm. This game examines the influence of luck and skill on the timing of events during the following two years of upheaval throughout Ireland. In Wolfe Tone's Rebellion you take the role of either the...
Pledge of Honor is an expansion for Heroes of the Nam bringing more tactical combat to Vietnam. Lock 'n Load Tactical squad-level Series, with its fast-paced, intense impulse system, drops you right into the middle of furious jungle firefights and all-out, building-to-building assaults. Pledge of Honor depicts the US Army, US Marines, the Army of the...
'The people of Massilia were worn out by all their misfortunes. They had been reduced to a catastrophic lack of food supplies, defeated in two naval battles, routed in frequent sorties, and even afflicted by a terrible epidemic caused by their long confinement and change of diet' Caesar, Civil War, book 2, 10.22.1 (translated by Kurt A. Raaflaub) A Long...
長征 (The Long March 1934-1935) is a card game based on the historical event of "the Long March" - the 1934 campaign of the Chinese Communist Party Red Army. Players play roles of five generals of the Red Army and collect cards which represent political influences upon the party leaders such as Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, etc. The artwork was drawn by the...
At the climax of the American Civil War the armies of the Confederacy were pressed back into their heartland as the rebellion tried desperately to sustain itself against Union forces. One of the most important campaigns occurred in southeastern Tennessee and Georgia, as Federal armies pressed toward the Confederacy’s vital city of Atlanta, home to much of...
Pax Porfiriana – Latin for "The Porfirian Peace" – refers to the 33-year reign of dictator Porfirio Díaz, who ruled Mexico with an iron hand until toppled by the 1910 Revolution. As a rich businessman (Hacendado) in the turbulent pre-revolutionary borderlands of the U.S. and Mexico, players compete to build business empires of ranches, mines, rails...
"The Lost Valley: The Siege of Diên Biên Phù" is a solitaire dice and card-driven board wargame of tactics and resources management about the battle of Diên Biên Phù, which saw the defeat of the French Expeditionary Corps in Indochina by the Vietnamese People’s Army in 1954. This battle signaled the beginning of the end for the French Colonial Empire and...
In this solo historical game, you take the role of Francesc Macià, leading a small band of Catalan insurgents across the Pyrenees to spark a revolution against the Spanish dictatorship of Primo de Rivera in 1926. Capture towns, build prestige among the population, and persuade the powerful CNT trade union to launch a general strike before government forces...
This is solitary, easy and short card driven game for the Battle of Madrid (november-december 1936) of the Spanish Civil War. There are two types of Cards. Battle Cards with a numerical value from 1 to 7, and Position Cards, which represent historical fortifications. The player must set up his battle cards in the gaps before you draw all the fortification...