The trusting past has led to a densely woven international trading network with the energy market at its center. Skepticism and fear have flooded the international political scene. Impending crisis has prompted world powers to escalate energy independence to a matter of national security and quick action must be taken. Not too quick though… poor decisions...
Historians estimate that the Kurukshetra (koo-rook-shay-trah) war occurred during the Iron Age of India, around 10th century BCE. The conflict arose from a succession dispute over the Throne of Hastinapur (has-tee-nah-poor). Duryodhana was the eldest from the senior branch of the family line, the Kauravas. But he was younger than Yudhishthira, the eldest...
From the website Thunder's Edge is a science-fiction board game of politics, strategy and giant mecha for two to five players. Each player controls one of Earth's factions, each of which is trying to exert power over the planet Thunder's Edge. To win, players must gain the support of important lobby groups within the government, hold key locations on...
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...