The death of Duke John III of Brittany in 1341, just 4 years after the beginning of the Hundred Years War would spark a dynastic conflict between Joan de Penthièvre, his niece, and John of Montfort, his nephew. Both sides would be backed by the Kings of France and England, respectively. Charles de Blois, Joan’s husband, was the primary military leader of...
Escapade is played on a oblong hexagonal grid board using 13 pieces for each player, one of which is marked as a General. The other pieces are Guards. The General and six Guards for each player start on the board, with the other six Guards as off-board reserves. On a turn a player may place a Guard from their reserve on any empty space, or they may move a...
Escape of the Estepes is an introductory system to wargames for people who never had a contact with this type of game. The objective is here to show how strategy games can be fascinating, promote the development of strategical reasoning and the taste for history. In 1944 Germany already is already withdrawing from the Soviet Union. Diverse elements of the...
Escape From Colditz is a 1-vs-many semi-cooperative game where one player is the Security Officer of the German forces, and the others are Escape Officers for various nationalities or prisoners of war (POWs). Escape Officers try to acquire the equipment they need for a successful escape (rope, wire cutters, etc.), while the Security Officer tries to hinder...
In May 1942, 18 American crewmen scuttle their US Navy minesweeper ship based in the Philippines to prevent it from falling into the hands of the invading Japanese forces. Using a 36-foot US Navy motor launch, the 18 sailors, led by Lieutenant Commander John Morrill (player), begin their 2,000-mile journey through Japanese-infested waters in an attempt to...
The second (and last) of Fractal Dimensions' line of "Gamelets" - comic-book sized games inspired by the microgames of the 1980s. Escape From Dinosaur Island! involves U.S. Marines in the South Pacific, circa 1944, who find themselves on an island filled with prehistoric beasts. The game uses two mapsheets. One is a hex-grid encounter map showing an...
Start with an impenetrable prison swarming with Nastian warriors… stir in a captured princess, heir to the Laylian Empire and all its riches… add a dash of insane alien monsters who want to blow the place to smithereens… and all it takes is the craziest security detail in the Solar Hanseatic League to bring it all to a rolling boil! The result is a recipe...
The battle of Korsun began on the 25th January with an attack by the Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Fronts forces spearheaded by the 5th Guards Tank Army from the eastern side of the Korsun salient; followed a day later by a second attack form western side of the salient by 1st Ukrainian Fronts forces. The forces of the two Soviet Fronts met each other near...
The absolute real battle of WW2 was the Escape of the German 9th Army from April 28th to May 1st, 1945. After the army had been by-passed in the attack of Berlin starting April 15, it became encircled and contained by Russian forces who would deal with it later. However, the Russian units containing it were minimal and found themselves in a precarious...
"Escape to Nowhere: Army Group South, December 1943- April 1944" uses 16-mile hexes and army and corps units-of-maneuver to cover the liberation of the Ukraine and the Crimea by the Red Army at that time. Designed by Ty Bomba using the same alternating-actions system as the earlier game "Codeword Thunderclap: Army Group Don, November 1942 – March 1943"....
Introduction:Esgros (from Scottish Gaelic: sgrios, meaning "annihilation") is a game of annihilation for two players: Black and White. It is played on the hexes (cells) of an initially empty hexagonal board. The recommended size is 4 cells per side, but boards of 3 or 5 are also valid. Each player has access to a sufficient supply of stones in their own...