Cod War! In the mid 1970s everyone who enjoyed a nice piece of cod wrapped in newspaper and served up with a pile of crispy chips was glued to events in the North Atlantic as Britain went to “war” against Iceland over the issue of fishing rights and economic control of the sea. “Cod War” comprises a brief history of the Cod Wars, tactical rules (with two...
Disputes over fishing in the waters around Iceland have been going on for decades. The most famous of these confrontations were the incidents known as the Cod Wars of the 1970s. This game matches the coastal patrol force of Iceland against the fishing vessels of Great Britain and their Royal Navy escorts. It features a diceless conflict resolution system...
The computer game of submarine pursuit Use a real computer to track an unseen sub. Be in command of the combat information center. Plot you ship's course on a nautical chart. Avoid costly collisions. Aim and fire torpedoes at the sub. Miss the target and the sub retaliates. The board game where you match wits with a computer Decades ago -- when computers...
Cold Waves is the final game of a set covering the War of the Austrian Succession at sea (plus the concurrent War of Jenkin's Ear). Though relatively unknown, these conflicts, raging from 1739-1748, comprised the first "world war". The primary naval actions took place in three theatres: the English Channel and Bay of Biscay, the Caribbean, and the western...
Is that “victory” you taste in the salty air? You’ve secured your spot as a competitor in the world-renowned Coldwater Crown fishing tournament, and the contest has just begun! Will you be able to cast the right bait at the right time to reel-in the biggest fish? Will you be able to strategically balance your efforts at the different fishing locations to...
"The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy or too impatient." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh In Coldwater Crown: The Sea, you may use a Port action to go to Sea in search of new, big, deep water fish. Sea fish are especially lucrative to catch and can be caught with any color of bait, but while at Sea you won't be able to catch fish from the...
Originally available to subscribers of Bellwether Games' newsletter in a limited quantity. This tile covers the entire Small Species Challenge Section but those trophy tokens are still used. During the game, you do not earn trophies for completing the Small species challenge. Instead, whenever you catch your third pike, take the topmost trophy from the...
"College Boat Race" shows the sport of rowing. The actual board is fixed to the inside box bottom. The walls of the box bottom are made of wood, covered with decorative paper. Components: four wooden "men" playing pieces and a cardboard spinner with a metal arrow. Game board shows a u-shaped track around an island with a boat house at the shore and a house...
Players are sailors who try to reach America before the other players, starting from Europe and crossing Atlantic ocean. During the perilious travel they'll have to avoid storms, mutinies, hull crashes, winds, also thanks to Colombo's cards' help. In order to achieve their objective they'll have to draw and play the right cards and to move their ships the...
This high quality production has ships sailing in exploration from Spain to North Africa in the search for inhabited islands. Players have to provision barrels, as well as roll dice and move accordingly, and when they reach the coats, can spy through their telescopes. This is a clever mechanism, with several discs showing different views of land being...