"Forest of the Impaled: Vlad Dracula's Final Stand" is a cooperative wargame where up to 6 Muslim players invade and attempt to conquer Romania. Heavily outnumbered, the Dracula player fights with his Christian army to defend his country and survive. It is loosely based on the historical campaign of Vlad 'Dracula' Tepes in 1462. To defeat Dracula, the...
(David A. Vandenbroucke review - http://grognard.com/reviews/france44.txt): France 1944 (Victory Games) is a Mark Herman design. It's a 130 counter, 1 map game of the breakout and pursuit across France. Units are divisions, I believe. Components are up to VG's usual high standards. Complexity is rated as "low," and solitaire suitability is "medium." The...
(from the back of the box:) The French Foreign Legion is based on a genre of movies and serials that feature hard-cased Legionnaires defending a desert fort against hordes of fanatical tribesmen. The action is fast, furious, and unpredictable as the Bedouins rush the walls, throw their grappling hooks, and climb up for furious melees with the tough...
Friedland 1807 marks the 20th battle of the Jours de Gloire game series. The module, available in English and French, completes the "1807 Franco-Russian battles pack" that started with Eylau 1807 (Vae Victis #77). The game includes two historical scenarios: » The Two Day Battle, starting the evening of June 13 with only one unit on the map, all others...
Using the new Napoleonic version of the ACW operational March into Battle system from Corinth and Hampton Newsome's At All Hazards, this game portrays the the campaign that led to the first surrender of a French Army in the Napoleonic Wars and shook the myth of French invincibility. The French army under General Dupont is trying to evacuate a huge treasure...
Using the new Napoleonic version of the ACW operational March into Battle system from Corinth and Hampton Newsome's At All Hazards, this game portrays the two largest battles of the 1809 campaign: Aspern, Napoleon's first defeat, and Wagram, the fourth largest battle of the Napoleonic Wars (and, as Massena put it, at that time the largest battle in history...
Excerpts from the designer's introduction: "From Manassas to Appomattox is a Grand Tactical level rule set. It has been designed to place you in command of corps or armies and to allow your decisions to affect the outcome of the battle. The emphasis of the rules is upon playability while attempting to maintain as much historical accuracy as possible. The...
The object of this game is to compose the front page of the "Main Street Herald." Upon completion of the page, the player with the highest score, earned by completing stories and winning bonuses, wins the game. The game simulates the editorial and layout tasks in putting a newspaper together: there are tiles for headlines, photos, photo captions, inside...
Three years after the collapse of South Vietnam, General William Westmoreland announced that “militarily we were successful . . . we didn’t lose a single battle above company level.” It was in these intense company- and platoon-level firefights, which characterized most combat in the Vietnam War, that military engagements could be won and lost. At close...
Frontiers on Fire is a man-to-man skirmish wargame for warfare in 18th Century North America, mostly the French-and-Indian War and the American War for Independence. Too many skirmish games are simple systems where dice take a greater role in the game than tactics, decisions, or careful use of fire and movement. Frontiers on Fire allows each player to...
Fuentes de Onoro 1811 focus on the last events of the fight between Masséna and Wellington in Portugal and Spain. It includes three battles: Foz do Arouce, Fuentes de Oñoro and El Bodon 1811 which are thus be the 32nd, 33rd and 34th battles of the series. The game is also the 6th entry in the Vae Victis Wargame Collection. The main battle, Fuentes de...