Batailles pour le Canada covers three battles of the French and Indian War: Fort Carillon (1758), Québec (aka The Plains of Abraham) (1759) Sainte-Foy (1760) The game scale is very large (i.e., small maps, each smaller than the magazine opened up) but the game itself is reasonably detailed for a "magazine game." This issue also includes a pair of errata...
Batalha de São Borja is a postcard game available in issue 1 of Riachuelo Games' Strategos magazine. The Battle of São Borja is one of the opening offensives of the Triple Alliance War (1864 - 1870), in which a small force of Brazilians defend São Borja (in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande dul Sul) against a much larger force of Paraguayans. The...
Free print and play wargame in Strategos #3. It can be downloaded from the Riachuelo website. This small game a battle between Brazilian imperial troops against Argentinian/Orientales (former Uruguay's inhabitants), in Rio Grande do Sul (state of south of the Brazil). Features a 8.5" x 11" map of mainly very uneven terrain, 50 counters, and concise rules...
Batalla a les illes Formigues (Battle in the Formigues Islands) is a small and simple postcard game published as a freebie by SNAFU Design. It’s a 2-player game recreating three Middle-Ages naval battles that took place during the Crusade against the Crown of Aragon in 1285: 1st battle of Formigues Islands, 2nd battle of Formigues Islands, and Battle of...
St. Cyr, blocked in Barcelona, decides to make an exit to eliminate the threat of the Spanish settled on the other side of the Llobregat river, who interrupted his communications with the rest of the peninsula. With this intention, he leaves the city at the head of his 7th Army Corps with more than 20,000 men, 1,500 horses and some artillery. The Spanish...
Each player has six stones and a column at his command -- and with these, he must either capture all his opponent's stones, or occupy his opponent's base in order to achieve victory. Stones move in a limited, leap-frog fashion; while the column can do this, or move a straight line until it reaches a border or another object playing piece. It is possible to...
Published in issue #82 of Dragon Magazine, Feb 1984. Republished as part of a boxed set: The Best of Dragon Magazine Games in 1990 The Baton Races of Yaz is played by two teams of Skadingles, Flibdills, Tarnoses and Luggants. The team that breaks all its bulges with its baton in the shortest time is the winner. Each side has 2 batons, 5 Skadingles, 5...
Baton Rouge is part of the Great Battles of the American Civil War series (GBACW). This series is an offshoot of the Terrible Swift Sword: Battle of Gettysburg Game (TSS) system. The game simulates the Confederate attempt to retake the Louisiana capital in August, 1862. A unique aspect of this battle was the support of the Confederate ironclad Arkansas...
Battaglia di Lepanto 1571 is a Tactical level wargame for 2 players that simulates the Battle of Lepanto between Christian and Ottoman fleets. The game includes a hex map depicting the sea and part of the coast, on which the players will setup their fleets of war galleys. Each war galley is represented by a hexagonal counter with all important data on it...