Ottomans is a historical simulation of the rise of the Ottoman Empire in the 15th and 16th centuries. That era saw the Ottomans go from a small nation competing for survival in the Near East to a regional superpower, forming a state that lasted until the end of the First World War. To build their empire, the Ottomans conquered the remnant of the Byzantine...
Players are competing for customers who arrive in a known order, but who have different demands. Do you put your precious resources up for grabs to lure customers, or do you spend them on additional docking bays? Be wary of the government officials who aren't picky about what they take from you and only give you half as many points! Components, rules, and...
After the discovery of the Pacific Ocean by the Spanish explorer Vasco Nuñez de Balboa in 1513, it became the subject of dispute between the two great colonial empires of the time, Spain and Portugal. The Treaty of Tordesillas established a principle agreement for the division of the world, leaving this vast expanse of sea on the Spanish side, which came...
In fighting off the Western Xia, Genghis Khan died a sudden illness. The golden head of the family had not time to establish a successor to the empire. Now each surviving prince ranked himself heir to the empire. When word of the Khan's death spread throughout Eurasia, the princes went to war to establish their worthiness. Play Introduction: 1. Place the...
Panzer Battles: 11th Panzer on the Chir River, is a Standard Combat Series (SCS) game by Multi-Man Publishing and covers the classic mobile defensive Chir River Battles of the German 11th Panzer Division against the culminating point spearheads of Soviet Operation Uranus. The Soviets have successfully entombed the Stalingrad Pocket and are in the process...
Panzer Command is a tactical level simulation of armored combat, recreating the battles that raged across the steppes of the Soviet Union during the middle years of World War II. Each of two players commands the 40 to 60 company-sized units of a German armored division or Soviet tank corps, maneuvering forces across treacherous terrain to engage the enemy...
Tank-to-tank combat on a tactical level The Panzer® Miniature Rules is a modular game system designed for small unit actions using microarmor, 1/285th or 1/300th scale troops. For two or more players, it is a comprehensive and yet quick to-play set of full-color rules. Scale: The vehicle and towed-gun scale is 1:1 with infantry at squad, 1/2 squad and...
This is the next module in the MMP "Panzerblitz Series" (PBS). "Panzerblitz: East Front" will visit roughly the same ground as the original "PanzerBlitz", published by Avalon Hill in 1970. Situations in East Front will span from 1939 to 1945, a broader swath than the original game, and will also include other combatant nations that fought in the titanic...
Panzerblitz: Hill of Death: The Battle for Hill 112, Normandy 1944, covers the epic battle between British & German forces for the dominant terrain feature, Hill 112 and the control of Normandy. Take command of Infantry and Armor units to control key terrain features on Hill 112 and the surrounding countryside. This battle waged for over 4 weeks with the...
PanzerBlitz: Carentan is an expansion of PanzerBlitz: Hill of Death – The Battle for Hill 112, Normandy 1944 which provides two new situations simulating the struggle for Carentan, Normandy in 1944 and a bevy of new troops and hardware. Panzerblitz: Hill of Death is required to play, because PanzerBlitz: Carentan only includes counters for the new units....
The Russian Front witnessed the biggest tank battles in history. But for the crews of those vehicles, within each moment, each split second, there was only ever one target in their sights, or the one muzzle that remained unaccounted for. Commander, loader, driver…they served in a cramped world, where the events of four bloody years became nothing but an...