Preparation: Each player receives a ship and the 15 balls of one color, which he places in the hold of his own ship. Roll of the dice: In turn, the players roll the two dice and advance three balls at the same time through the game circuit as many squares as there are points on the dice. If a star comes out on the roll of the dice, the three balls are...
Alea evangelii is from the tafl family of games. The original name of the game is unknown. Alea evangelii is the first words of the twelfth-century Corpus Christ College manuscript 122, commonly known as Corpus Irish Gospels, which contains a description of the game. The game is believed to represent a naval battle and is played on a 18 x 18 game board....
Wargame covering the siege of Tyre by Alexander the Great and the Macedonians in 332 B.C. The map consists of both Area Movement (sea) and Point-to-Point (the city of Tyre). The three scenarios include: Naval Battles, Fight for the City, Fight for the City (siege version) and the Campaign Game. The game has very high quality and attractive color...
This volume presents the rules of one of the first real wargames developed in Italy. At first it was played at the A.R.G.O. (Roman Association of Operative Games) and then, in the '70s, it was slowly presented, piece by piece, on the defense magazine Esercito e Armi - Interconair. At last it was published as a book by the Italian editor Mursia that had a...
The second game in the 18 card Rescue game series: Otters to the Rescue is a game of 18 cards full of clever combinations for scoring and play for 1 or 2 players. Players arrange the cards in the shape of a triangle and each turn will rescue one of the cards from the triangle which represents the ocean. Each card features a swimmer in one of five colors...
It's 1878, and All Fathomed Out pits 3-6 players against each other in a race to discover and catalogue the most noteworthy new species brought up from the uncharted waters of the South Pacific. These moustachioed men of science face not only stiff competition from their fellow explorers as they dive (only one man can take credit for discovering each...
English description: "As almirantes - Portuguese for admirals - in command of both a merchant and a war navy, 2 to 6 players build and navigate their fleets in order to dominate the geostrategic center of the ocean. In this exciting strategy game, however, one must call for divine help as conquering the ocean is nothing compared to holding it…" Each...