The game recreates the events of June 5, 1989. Players take the role of either the Chinese Government controlling a column of Type 59 main battle tanks advancing along Chang’an Avenue in Beijing, or a lone Chinese student holding two shopping bags. The game last ten turns. If the tanks get past the Protester the Government player wins. If the Government...
Tiberius Claudius Nero's father was lucky to escape execution by Octavian Caesar after the siege of Perusia in 40 BC. His parents took the infant Tiberius and fled from the blood-chilling vengeance of the future Emperor Augustus. As they made their perilous escape from Italy nobody gave a dried fig for the boy's prospects. So how could he possibly have...
In this game the players are corrupt politicians with the goal to grub as much money as possible. One player distributes money from the treasury. After intensive negotiations the players vote. If a majority votes against the proposed distribution the current president has to resign and another player becomes president. Besides voting the players can also...
(from page 2 of the rule book) Timbuktu is a four-player strategic-level wargame simulating the rise and fall of empires in the gold-producing regions of West Africa during the period 1050-1550. Each turn represents fifty years, more than enough time for several changes of monarch. Therefore, players are not taking the part of a king. Instead, they...
The future is in peril. Your opponent wishes to rewrite history to meet their Goals, but only one version of the 161sr Century can exist at a time. Send your Time Travelers back into the past, and arm them with the most sophisticated Items you have. You preside as a Supreme Commander in the Time Corps of the Human Republic, tasked with conducting the Time...
Tipping Point is a contentious 2 player Negotiation game of Governance. Players represent political factions that strive to cement their legacy by accumulating enough Victory Points (VPs) before the accumulation of Carbon Emissions or Government Debt result in a Critical Tipping Point in which all players lose the game. Players deploy their Political...
Three hundred years ago, the wandering tribe of Scragen settled at the shores of the Pentibar Sea. Over the decades, the settlement grew to be a great city and from it was born the thriving Empire of Vistos. Today, Vistos faces a unique challenge. Astemaed, 12th Emperor of the greatest empire the world has ever seen, has died without an heir. By law, it...
Rome is going to hell. Redneck barbarians are raiding the borders, the economy is in freefall, and the sewer workers are on strike...again. To top it all, mercenaries and slaves have delusions of grandeur (they want to be paid, for Jupiter's sake!), while those petty pencil pushers at the Senate indulge in never-ending rhetoric displays. As a wealthy...
The Toledo War, a card game about the 1835-36 border dispute between the State of Ohio and the Territory of Michigan. This conflict is quite obscure, and even Michiganders and Ohioans are unlikely to regard it as more than a piece of trivia. Each round three cards are played to gain political influence and achieve your state's goals. The cards are based on...
from User Review: Tom Clancy, the famous author of military-style thrillers, long been a wargaming fan. Now, he has entered into the wargame market with Politika, produced by a company of his own, Red Storm Entertainment. The premise of the game is that Yeltsin has died and there is now a power struggle amongst various factions within Russia to take...