ABXY is a competitive 2-player simultaneous action selection game. Players use hand-picked teams of extraordinary creatures to battle until one player has no one left. Learn the game in 3 minutes, play a match in 5-15 minutes. Players begin a standard match with a team of creature cards and 4 button cards representing A, B, X, and Y actions. A single...
On a distant island, geese live in different villages. One day, they decide to cross the river and go on an adventure to the mysterious world. As only six boats can be used, each villages tries hard to let more of their geese embark. Meanwhile, the naughty wildcats and weasels are to hinder everyone... Game Set Up: Place the boat card and black dice in the...
Academy is a family-friendly worker placement game with four rounds, each representing a year at West Point. During the game, players place their “Cadets” around the West Point campus to conduct training and face off in competitions. The goal is to become the Valedictorian by scoring the most points in the three pillars of the Academy (Academic, Military...
Excerpt from the rulebook: "Accusation is a card game in which players take on the roles of countries engaged in world events. Players use their country’s assets: military, intelligence, economy, diplomacy, and research to influence the outcome of world events and gain victory points to achieve world domination." Players simultaneously and anonymously...
Ace of Aces is an innovative 1-on-1 combat game that simulates a dogfight between WWI aircraft. Each player has a book with pictures of what they see out the cockpit of their airplane. Each player selects a maneuver (bank left, barrel roll, etc.) and tells their opponent a page number to turn to. This new page, when cross indexed with the maneuver made...
The Powerhouse Series book set pits the Fokker DVII of Georg von Hantelmann against the SPAD XIII of Eddie Rickenbacker. The game provides statistics for several other WWI fighter planes that may be played using this set. The Powerhouse books include a different variety of maneuvers than was used in the Handy Rotary books making for interesting match-ups...
The Flying Machines book set pits a Fokker EIII Eindecker against an Airco DH2 "pusher" plane (meaning that the propeller was at the back of the aircraft.) Because of the pusher configuration, the DH2 has a flexible forward firing gun - a novel addition to the Ace of Aces system. The game also provides statistics for other early-war German aircraft and...
The Handy Rotary Deluxe edition was a revision of the original Handy Rotary Series game book set. The Deluxe Edition came in a bookcase style box rather than a slipcase. The game books use photographs of actual aircraft (the Fokker DrI and Sopwith Camel) to depict the view from your cockpit. The Deluxe Edition rules are printed in a separate rulebook...
The Wingleader Deluxe Boxed Set doubled the number of aircraft in the original version of the game and added rules for a campaign game. The Ace of Aces Collector's Guide, by Joseph J. Scoleri III, has this to say: "The Wingleader Expansion Set was a special addition to games distributed by Chessex Manufacturing. The expansion was added at the time that...
From the makers of Ace of Aces, the WWI dogfighting game, comes Jet Eagles, the Modern Air Combat Game. Gameplay is very similar to Ace of Aces (two books each depicting the view from your fighter jet) with rules for advanced weapons such as missiles. Players each choose their maneuvers, and then using a formula, turn to a new page in their book to see the...