The Blockade is a pirate themed strategy game for 2 players that takes about half an hour. The board shows a sea with marked starting spaces and pirate island on one side. Start by placing your ships on the marked spaces and setting the difficulty. On each turn you'll move one of your ships. Pirates are more maneuverable, but there are only 3 of them. The...
Blockade Runner was inspired by an actual Yankee civil war game. The chance of the Runner getting into port is about the same as in 1864. After the USA began the blockage, merchant ships became runners. The Rewards were worth the risk. Blockade Runners were leaving England hoping for a big payday. Two, three or four people play this fast acting game. For...
Blood & Bayonets is a 28mm skirmish game that immerses players in the battles and conflicts of the Napoleonic Wars. It joins Blood & Valor, Blood & Steel, and Blood & Crowns as the next installment in a series of games based on Firelock Games’ flagship product, Blood & Plunder. Blood & Bayonets allows players to recreate the countless skirmishes, raids...
“If they help Saddam Hussein attack our economic resources they will not see oil.” –Ayatollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. January 1985 marked over four years of bloody war between Iraq and Iran. The previous year Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq, initiated a new campaign in the war with Iran by having his air force target the...
Blood, Bilge and Iron Balls is a set of wargame rules for naval battles in the Age of Sail. With them you can recreate the triumphs of Nelson or Hawke or tackle pirates on the Spanish Main. The rules themselves are very simple and easy to learn. Each player can easily command a single ship or several, the rules working equally well for a single frigate...
Blood & Gold: Naval Warfare During The Age of Piracy Take control of your very own pirate ship in this abstract simulation of naval warfare during the age of piracy and high adventure. Pillage towns and forts. Destroy rival pirate ships. Evade the Royal Navy. Survive harsh tropical storms. Escape with the gold. Blood & Gold is an abstract solitaire naval...
This is all you need to start playing Blood & Plunder. Raise the Black will bring the Blood & Plunder universe to the 18th century and will include all new plastic kits and ships that will be fully customizable. The starter kit will be centered around the infamous encounter of Blackbeard Vs. Maynard. Everything needed to play will be included in the player...
Blood Sweat & Iron is a simple American Civil War Ironclad river actions rule set, it uses a very simple combat system to allow you to play battles within a couple of hours. The system uses datasheets for each ship in the game, all are at the back of the rules ready for you to print out and use. It is meant to be a fun game that offers the players a feel...
Two free scenarios for Blood Sweat & Iron simple ACW Ironclad river combat rules. The first is The Convoy Must Get Through and the second is Run Rabbit Run both are nice and simple and a lot of fun. Playing as either the attacker or the defender will have its own set of challenges. Although these scenarios have been written especially for Blood Sweat &...
Hipper and Onslow, sea-horses; Entwining, as one turned the other; Also on parallel courses; Steaming, a zig-zag raking. – Alan Ross, poet and sailor on Onslow in JW51B This is a scenario for my ruleset There's The Effing Scheer, and its expansion Striking Effectively First, which allows you to wargame early- to mid-war WW2 naval combat. I play wargames to...