One night at sea, in the galley of a run-down pirate vessel, a group of grizzled sailors huddles around a mysterious sheet of parchment: the only known map to the lost treasure of legendary pirate captain Broadsides Bullion. Captain Bullion made the map in a near-incomprehensible cipher, but whoever can piece the clues together stands to gain his vast...
In 1845, Sir John Franklin led an expedition on behalf of the British Royal Navy to find and explore the last portion of the Northwest Passage, regardless of the cost. The Royal Navy gave Franklin two heavy Ships (HMS Terror and HMS Erebus) filled with scientific equipment, 1000 books, a crew of 128 men, and enough food to last for three years. They left...
Exploration was a very popular 1970s game from Britain's best game company, Waddingtons. The dramatic & colourful box cover, showing the Kon Tiki raft, mountain climbers, ziggurats, and scuba divers on a wreck, inspired thousands of British kids to explore the globe, at least in their fantasies. To win, you must mount an exploration to one of four...
New crew have arrived to aid you in your exploration. However. They won't just work for anyone - you must prove your ships are worthy their services first. Players recruit crew cards by achieving their prerequisites. As soon as players reach this target, they take the relevant crew card from the pile and place it faceup in front of them. In most cases...
Extended Broadside is like a classic Battleships game on steroids. Instead of having two players placing their hidden fleets on a 10X10 grid, this one is played by four players on a huge (36" across) octagonal board in which each player has a five-sided slice of 160 numbered squares. The board, vertical dividers, posts and spacers are all of wood. The...
Published with three games in one box: Decisive Battle of the Combined Fleet "Decisive Battle the Combined Fleet" is a tactical level surface naval battle wargame in WW2 Pacific theater. Players control either the fleet of Imperial Japanese Navy or United States Navy, and fight each other. Players manage ships movement, gun and torpedo attack. This game...
Factors of Spice is a Euro-hybrid game. Similar in theme to Goa with mechanics like Puerto Rico and El Grande but with a map, limited combat, some secret movement elements. The time is the late 1500s and the domination of the Spice Trade is in the balance. Far from playing colonial powers, the initial countries sent Factors, or professional trader-agents...
Objective: be the first reaching space 50/1 - moving by turns - Choose one of the two routes (red or black: Panama - Colon or vice versa): Roll the die and move forward. If you land on one of the special marked spaces, you must obey the instructions glued into the lid. Note: Likely published ~1915 (not earlier than 1914/not later than early 1917 - Germany...
Falklands Showdown: The 1982 Anglo-Argentine War, designed by Philip Sharp, is an intermediate complexity two-player strategic and operational wargame of the conflict that took place between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982. It begins with Argentina in control of the Falkland Islands and UK forces approaching to try to retake them. Aircraft...
(from the introduction:) Hearts Of Oak is a military simulation of the Battle of the Atlantic, which took place at sea between the forces of Britain and Germany in the crucial years of WWII following the fall of France in June 1940. [...] It uses some components from GDW's Europa series of simulations, particularly Their Finest Hour and uses the maps from...
The splash of salt spray across your forearm as you unfurl the spinnaker, the groan of the mast as it catches the wind, the thrill as you round the buoy and cut across the waves. Do you have what it takes to be a famous racing skipper? Find out today with Famous Flagships - the World's Smallest Yacht Racing Game! Famous Flagships is a fun, fast-playing...