This board game simulates gambling in casinos. Travel between places like Las Vegas and Atlantic City and place your bets. Includes standard casino games: poker, blackjack, sports betting, and slot machines. Also includes things that some people don't like to admit are gambling: auctions, loan sharks, lottery, and stock market. Includes basic rules for...
Spend your money, trying to get sets of the same-colour-cube for maximum points. But the winning bid will go to the current auctioneer, who has paid for that privilege! Do you like struggling to work out how much something is worth? Do you like the tension of spending money, hoping to make a profit? Do you like the possibility of losing a game on the first...
"Altar of Freedom: Grand Tactical Battles in the American Civil War" is a set of miniatures wargame rules for fighting the largest battles of the American Civil War in 6mm scale. This system is designed for real historical scenarios like Antietam or Chickamauga, not for points-driven tournament matches. Your role as a player will be to step into the boots...
From the publisher's website: "All Quiet on the Potomac" is our Eastern Theater scenario supplement. This massive PDF covers every major battle fought in the east, from 1861-1865. Each historical scenario has been carefully researched, including color maps and Orders of Battle for the armies. Scenario List First Manassas, July 1861 Seven Pines, May 1862...
From the publisher's website: "Atlanta is Ours" is our Western Theater scenario supplement. This massive PDF covers every major battle fought in the west, from 1862-1865. Each historical scenario has been carefully researched, including color maps and Orders of Battle for the armies. Scenario List Fort Donelson, February 1862 Pea Ridge, March 1862 Shiloh...
From the publisher: It is early May 1863. Ulysses S Grant and over 40,000 Union troops have crossed the Mississippi and now threaten both Vicksburg and the state capital of Jackson. Will Grant cut free from his river-side supply base? Can Pemberton unite with the relief army assembling near Jackson? "Gibraltar of the West" is a free campaign supplement...
From the designer's description on Web-Grognard's (slightly edited): Game Auction is a satirical look at the wargaming hobby and the games, people, and companies that make up the hobby. With tongue firmly planted in cheek, I have designed a game that simulates all the fun and craziness of a live wargame auction. Based on MODERN ART, the game adds event...
Players try to have the most money at the end of the game. The board has two tracks'. One is a circle track around a spinner which is used to determine how many spaces the player can move. This circular track is used to collect funds. Once a player has accumulated $300,000, the player can move to a track along all 4 sides of the board. This outer track has...
"HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED: Players move around the Board according to the throw of Dice. Properties such as Beauty Parlor, Department Store, etc., are bought and sold at prices that rise and fall quite unexpectedly depending on whether the conditions are NORMAL, BOOM times, or BUST (depression times). The game is quick moving and amusing. The game ends when...
Game of store or buying merchandise with with money. The object of the game is to buy as much merchandise as you can before all the cards are gone. Money is 1 cent up to $20. Merchandise includes flour, mackerel, corn meal, umbrella, envelopes, pineapple, beef, tea, stove, pickles, sugar, skates, apple, whistle, cheese, chickens, gum, eggs, coal, Lion...
Players move around the board buying coins at auctions, coin shops and flea markets, trading and selling them. The player with the most money wins the game.. The game can also be played solitaire to see how much money one can make. An interesting twist in the game is that players use actual, current coin prices for their transactions. Thus the players need...