Oda Nobunaga continues to take administrative reform one after another in order to put an end to the civil war. On the other hand, Shogun Yoshiaki dreaming of the rebirth of the Ashikaga shogunate's power, planned the mobilization of anti-Nobunaga forces. Nobunaga was hit by a surprise attack led by Asai Nagamasa but succeeded in escaping to Kyoto. In 1570...
"Tsaritsyn is a two-player simulation of perhaps the most pivotal battle of the Russian Civil War. Here, White Russian forces in southern Russia under General Wrangel fought to break through Soviet Red Army forces attempting to conduct a Verdun-like defense of the city of Tsaritsyn in the early summer of 1919... A little over twenty years later the German...
Tsaritsyn: The Volga, 1918-20 is a wargame covering the Russian Civil War campaign revolving around the city of Tsaritsyn (later Stalingrad, then Volgograd). The game pits Red Russian (Bolshevik) forces against the White Russians (anti-Bolsheviks plus some Allied support). The original campaign stretched from July 1918, when the White Russians first...
This is a game on political conflict in the last years of Japanese Edo period (1856 to 1867). The basic game engine is based on Twilight Struggle. Players control either pro-Tokugawa Shogunate or anti Shogunate (imperial) faction. Each turn players play historical event or common political operation cards. This mostly helps them to place their own...
March 4th, 1861. In his inaugural address, President Abraham Lincoln promises not to invade the south or curtail slavery as long as tariffs are collected there and forwarded to the federal government. The south secedes from the Union nonetheless. Lincoln won’t let it go, however, and attempts to reinforce Fort Sumter (in his view still federal property) in...
Syndicate Ultimatum is set in the cyberpunk world of the future. The world is under control of the World Syndicate, in whose hands all power is concentrated. But there are Corporation Cities that are not subject to him. In one of those cities - Helios - one of two players take on role of Stella - daughter of deceased head of the city, and other player...
"Unconditional Surrender" was the wargame in issue #36 of The Wargamer Magazine dated December 1984. The game simulates the Confederate counterattack on Fort Donelson after the Fort had been invested by U.S. Grant and the Union army in February 1862. The Confederate garrison actually outnumbered the Union troops 18,000 to 15,000, but Grant's judgement of...
A two player simulation of the Finnish Civil War that cost the lives of over 37,000 Finns. The war was fought in Finland from 27 January to 15 May 1918 between the forces of the Social Democrats led by the People's Deputation of Finland, commonly called the "Reds", and the forces of the non-socialist, conservative-led Senate, commonly called the "Whites"....
Unhappy King Charles! allows two players to decide whether Commons or Cavalier shall rule in England. Both seek to establish control over the country and of its economic structures. They seek not only to defeat their opponents in battle but also to seize control of the local government of England and Wales. The game is based on We the People, Mark Herman's...
The year is 1642 and England is torn apart by a civil war between King Charles I and his supporters, the Royalists, and the Parliamentarians. In Unhappy King Charles, a two-player card-driven game, you must choose your side and fight for the control of England’s regions and economic centres. You will use cards to play historic events, recruit troops...
BACKGROUND: THE UNION ABLAZE is semi-historical game of the American Civil War (1861-1865) in the East, also, referred to as the Peninsula. The Game begins shortly after the Confederate States of America (CSA) fired on the Union Fort Sumter. The Confederates are now building up their forces and gathering their Naval Squadrons to kick the Union out of the...
Vicksburg: The Assault On Stockade Redan, May 1863, (May 19th & 22nd 1863) is a two-player tactical wargame simulating the two Union assaults upon the Stockade Redan defensive position situated at the northeastern corner of the Vicksburg perimeter. The Union player must assault and capture the imposing Stockade Redan earthworks that overlook Graveyard Road...