This game covers the French insurgency war against FLN in Algeria during 1954-62. It is a conflict of great drama. It cost the lives of at least half a million Algerians, it brought the tumultuous exodus of one million French settlers from Algeria and it brought France itself to the brink of civil war. But to be portrayed as a game has its difficulties...
The supernatural conflicts of Idols of Torment rage across a perilous afterlife called the Echo. This ruined landscape combines the remnants of Heaven and Hell following their apocalyptic collapse, forging a single, shattered realm inhabited by wandering souls. Idols of Torment is a cosmic horror miniatures game for two players. Each player takes on the...
Part of the Jours de Gloire Empire series by Frédéric Bey, the updated series rules of which are provided in Vae Victis #71 (this issue). A separate set of game specific rules are also included. This game is the regimental or brigade scale reconstruction of Napoléon's battle of Iéna which is seen by the author as the more important battle as it avenged the...
Second entry in TCS 30 years war series, it is a fast and furious DTP, print & play wargame, pitting a few dozens counters aside against each other on an ondulanting terrain protected by woods. The smaller Spanish army must defend against the assault of the aggressive, but worse trained Protestants forces. 1 2A4 map, around 160 counters six pages of rules...
The battle of Fleurus was fought during the so-called Bohemian phase of the Thirty Years War, but the battle occurred in the Flanders, fought between a Catholic Spanish army under the command of Gonzalo de Cordoba and a Protestant Protestant army led by mercenary leaders Mansfeld and Christian of Brunswick. The battle of Fleurus was initiated by a call...
Imperial Sunset is a moderate level complexity simulation of the largest naval battle in history, the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The battle was fought from October 23-26 1944 as the US returned to the Philippines, landing on the island of Leyte. The US Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy fought a series of actions that collectively have been recorded as the...
'An Impossible War' recreates the First Carlist War in the North of Spain (1834-1838). It is a wargame with blocks that also includes counters and cards. There is a main map (or Northern map), that shows Navarre, the Basque Provinces and part of Cantabria, Burgos and La Rioja, and a secondary map that reflects the regions of the rest of the country, where...
In Country is a Table-top game designed to bring fast and decisive Vietnam War combat from the company level up to the battalion, if desired. With these rules, players will be able to simulate the small skirmishes, reconnaissance missions, and large scale battles that made up one of the longest wars in American history. Includes: Unit Statistics Charts...
In The Name Of Glory (ITNOG) is a grand tactical rules set designed for players seeking a game of moderate complexity. The basic unit is a brigade, comprised of four stands. It uses a card activation system, with a few twists (see below). But players always has fewer cards than units (ain’t that always the way?). The game focuses more on morale than raw...
Earl Simon Montfort had gathered an army of dissatisfied rebel barons and, by stealing a march, had surprised the royal forces under King Henry III at the small East Sussex town of Lewes. The Battle of Lewes was the first on English soil in nearly fifty years and was the last "gentlemanly" conflict. "In the NAME of JUSTICE: The Battle of Lewes, 1264" is a...
It’s 1833. The East India Company has just had its monopoly of trade revoked by an official act of Parliament. You, and others like you, see a golden opportunity for profit in China. For too long the Company’s polite deference to the Qing has smothered progress and stifled trade. There is real money to be made here and you intend to make it. An Infamous...
Description from the designer: You have woken up early this morning. All week long you have been working up courage for today´s big adventure: Today you will dare to climb down old Doctor Humboldt´s cave to find his fabled diaries that you and your friends had been talking about all summer. And now you´re standing there at the cave´s entrance. The first...