Saigoku no Yu (Champion of the West) depicts Motonari Mori's conquests. This nickname was given to him after his victorious battles in the western part of Japan. Four scenarios are included: "The Battle of Orishikiba", "The Battle of Itsukushima", "The Battle of Koriyama" and "Destruction of Ouchi". Scenario includes HEAVY restrictive special rules to...
This is expansion kit of the "Sengoku Gunyuden" series. NB: "Sengoku no Ichiban-nagai-hi" means the Longest day of the Warring States (Sengoku) period. "The Longest Day in Sengoku" covers the major battle of Sekigahara, popularly known as the Battle for the Sundered Realm. This kit requires all 7 series game map for play. Four scenarios are included in...
This new edition takes us from the death of Alexander in 323 BC and the war of his successors — the Diadochi — which will last fifty years, to the last battles in Italy and Spain of the Second Punic War in 206 before BC, via the expedition of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus in Italy between 280 and 275 BC. Two great systems of weapons clash then, the Macedonian...
Champs de Bataille III: D'Alexandre à Hannibal has been published in Vae Victis issue 30. This Tactical level board-wargame is the third installment in the "Champs de Bataille" series of games, board-wargame versions of the De Bellis Multitudinis (DBM) miniatures rules. This issue includes counters and army lists for Alexandrian Macedonians, Imperial...
The fourth appearance of the "Champs de Bataille" system from Vae Victis, this appeared in the Nov/Dec 2003 issue (#53). This includes army lists and counters for Japan, Korea, the Mongols, and the Ming and Yuan Chinese--Asian land warfare from the thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries. Based on the De Bellis Multitudinis (DBM) miniatures rules from...
This was the first of the Champs de Bataille (Battlefield) games, based on the DBM miniatures rules, which would reappear frequently in subsequent issues. It features armies to cover the battles of Soissons (486) and Poitiers (732--better known in English as the battle of Tours)--thus, it has Franks, Gallo-Romans, East Franks, and Saracens. As with all Vae...
Chancellorsville: Bloody May, 1863 is a two-player wargame simulating Jackson’s infamous flank attack that occurred west of the Chancellor House (Chancellorsville) on May 2, 1863. As the Confederate player, you must try to crush Hooker’s unsuspecting army. As the Union player, you must regroup from the initial shock of the blow, hold onto the Chancellor...
Chancellorsville was the third "Tournament" wargame from The Avalon Hill Game Co. It marked the introduction of hex based maps to the hobby (contemporaneously with D-Day and Gettysburg) It also marked an unfortunate experiment in early wargame map graphics -- instead of using illustrations to depict terrain features, the hexes were simply filled with a...