States of Siege Series #10 Keep Up The Fire! is a solitaire States of Siege series game set in 1900 Peking (modern day Beijing), China where Foreign Legations (areas assigned to Imperial powers including ambassadors, business people, and a handful of troops to provide security) are besieged in their Compound by Chinese anti-imperialist forces. The Chinese...
Keno is a big game in most gambling houses in USA. Keno parlors have replaced Cocktail lounges in most of the resort Casinos. Depending upon which historian you listen to Keno was either brought into this country by the Chinese in the early 1800's or it was developed from the Italian "Lotto" a descendant of the Italian National Lottery. Either way Keno...
After a long captivity you and your companions have an opportunity to recover freedom. You are imprisoned in a spaceship abandoned by your captors. You were abducted to be exhibited in a traveling alien circus, but now that the ship is about to become uninhabitable, your kidnappers have simply opened the cells and fled. Kenophobia is a game of exploration...
On March 23, 1862 and then again on July 24, 1864 the area around Kernstown, Virginia witnessed clashes between Union and Confederate forces. The Pritchard House and Pritchard's Hill were central to both battles as they abutted the Valley Turnpike. At First Kernstown, Stonewall Jackson erred in taking scouting reports at face value and so he unknowingly...
Khagan is a game of 13th Century Mongol conquest. In this game, players each assume the role of a mighty Mongol warlord. With his powerful army, each warlord expands across Eurasia conquering and pillaging the native peoples. The warlord who ships the richest plunder back to Mongolia will certainly be named the next Great Khagan (and win the game). At the...
In an alternate-history 1950s, astronomers make a discovery that changes everything: a cosmic catastrophe is approaching Earth on a fixed and unstoppable timeline. Governments around the world reach the same conclusion—there is no way to stop it. Survival will require escape. The race begins. In Kiamat, players lead rival world powers as they launch from...
At 1020 hours on June 4, 1942, Japanese naval aircraft still ruled the skies over the Pacific. All that changed within ten minutes, when U. S. dive bombers sunk three out of four carriers constituting Kido Butai, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s main strike force which had devastated Pearl Harbor only six months before. The solitaire game Kido Butai simulates...
New England Simulations revisits a familiar World War II venue -- the hedgerows of Normandy -- with some refreshing twists in The Killing Ground: Campaign for Normandy, July-August 1944". The game combines a mechanic usually reserved for smaller games -- a chit pull combat system -- with two gorgeous maps, 900 counters, and a 36-page rulebook that should...
OVERLORD: D-Day and the Beachhead Battles is an expansion module for The Killing Ground: Campaign for Normandy, July-August 1944 that covers the period from June 6, to July 5, 1944. This 30 game-turn module links directly to The Killing Ground with an additional map, playing pieces and rules. It may also be played as a single map, stand alone game. In...
You are in charge of a stable of Knights that each have their own Knightly ability. Your Knights are going to the King's Jousting Tournament in order to joust against Knights from another House. You will roll dice to show your prowess and might. Use your influence gained during jousting to gain workers. You can increase the ability of your Knights with...
For many years, the King’s Royal Zoo has housed an odd collection of exotic Critters from across the kingdom. Only now, the Zoo is empty. A Dragon has been sleeping for centuries beneath a nearby mountain and has recently awoken. Intrigued by the King’s menagerie, the Dragon has stolen all the Critters from the Zoo and taken them back to its lair! You and...
A game that recreates the first period of the roman epoch. The players can control the political and military life of the newborn city, struggling to achieve supremacy over the other players and to survive to the multiple threats posed by hostiles neighbors, like Samnites, Etruscans and so on. The game comes with separate rules for solitaire and...