Ancient Rome, IV century A.D.: it is a stormy period in Roman Empire, the quiet of past centuries is only a memory and the struggle for the title of Emperor is increasingly harsh. In the Capital of the Empire, the most important "Gens" do not miss a chance to try to increase their power, to be able to influence the new Augustus as much as possible. Despite...
Antietam 1862 is Volume I in Worthington Publishings new Civil War Brigade Battle Series. Designed to be a series where you can fight a battle in an evening. Antietam 1862 allows gamers to refight the pivotal battle in Maryland that was the bloodiest day in American history. More than 22,000 were killed, wounded, or missing. Outnumbered at over 2 to 1, can...
Antietam: Burnished Rows of Steel is a game of the bloodiest single-day battle in the American Civil War. Game turns are sequential, with each player moving, firing artillery, and then having two rounds of combat, each in turn. Also provided are rules for solitaire play. Victory is determined by victory points earned by the Union player for capturing and...
This game is a fairly simplistic hex-and-counter wargame. With less than six pages of rules, it is very adept in it role as an introduction to gaming the American Civil War. The developer’s notes indicate that it is a modified installment of the Blue & Gray (SPI) system. The games comes with three scenarios, from nine to thirteen turns long. The hex scale...
Blue & Gray – 4 civil war battles where players maneuver colorful card board counters on three color maps of the actual battle sites. A hexagonal grid superimposed upon each map regulates the deployment, movement, and battle engagement of each unit. The colorful counters represent the infantry, cavalry, and artillery units that actually fought at each...
SPI published soapbox size wargame consisting of 9 copies of Antietam and 9 copies of Cemetery Hill both games from their Blue & Gray series. There is an additional teachers instruction booklet, 2 historical briefings booklets, two test questions booklets and one Bulletin board poster to promote the class activity, the entire collection can be used for...
Aragon 1938 (Aragón ’38) is a two player wargame simulating the Nationalist Spring 1938 offensive in Eastern Aragon, Valencia and Catalonia, from March to May 1938. Historically, the Nationalist armies (reinforced by an Italian motorized corps and German air units) inflicted a major defeat to the Ejército Popular de la República (EPR), reaching the...
The Aragón Front is an operational simulation depicting the successive campaigns along the Ebro river valley, in Eastern Spain, during her last bloody Civil War (1936/39). The game is a two player, chit pulling and hex movement design; counters range from regiment/brigade to division and hexes span 10km (6 miles) from side to side. The game can be played...
Army of the Potomac: Campaigns of 1862 and 1864 is the second volume in the Civil War Heritage series and the follow-up game to the innovative and acclaimed Rebel Fury. Army of the Potomac uses the same core rules as Rebel Fury, so players familiar with Rebel Fury will be able to jump right into the action. Each battle in Army of the Potomac is...
From the box of Third Edition: ¡Arriba España! is a simulation game on the Spanish Civil War of 1936-9. The game is for two players, one representing the left-wing coalition government of the Spanish Republic (the Government Player), and the other the alliance of right-wing forces that rose in revolt against it (the Rebel Player). Third Edition, reissued...
Just like the name suggests, The Art of War pays homage to the legendary treatise by Sun Zi, in how it attempts to capture and emulate its essence of extolling the depth of strategy and tactics in actual warfare, within a medieval-fantasy setting. The objective of the game is won threefold, to either destroy all 7 Resource Areas of the opponent, to defeat...