Gladiators is a tactical action game, where you play a gladiator fighting for Glory in ancient Rome. On each turn, players draw a small hand of Action cards and roll 5 custom dice. The symbols on the dice will shape what cards, gladiator skills and movements the player can make. The player with the most Glory at the end of the match wins. The tactical...
User Summary This freely downloadable expansion for the print-and-play game Glider-Pit Gladiators (GPG) allows players to create and play continuing gladiator characters who can gain experience and special skills over the course of their careers. The game was first web published in 1999 and updated in 2002. The Campaign Expansion adds rules covering...
This simulation covers the Battle of Cynoscephalae, a classic battle between the Roman manipular legion and a Hellenistic force descended from the army of Alexander the Great. The battle was the result of heavy skirmishing and both sides quickly rushed reinforcements to the scene. Therefore, at the beginning of the simulation there are no fixed positions...
"EVERY STALK OF CORN IN THE NORTHERN AND GREATER PART OF THE FIELD WAS CUT AS CLOSELY AS COULD HAVE BEEN DONE WITH A KNIFE, AND THE SLAIN LAY IN ROWS PRECISELY AS THEY HAD STOOD IN THEIR RANKS A FEW MOMENTS BEFORE." General Hooker commenting on the cannister fire of six Union batteries The summer of 1862 was a time of peril for the Union. The Army of the...
Gli Eroi della Mitologia is a free Print & Play Italian game for 2, 3 or 4 players set in the Heroic Age of Greek Mythology and allows players to assume the role of the Gods of Olympus trying to control the destinies of their Heroes on Earth. Each player has a certain number of points which he must use to try to control the heroes who have objectives to...
Glider-Pit Gladiators (GPG) is a free print-and-play board game of ancient aerial combat. The latest version (GPG 2002) is available for download from the files section below. Two to six players control primitive gliders descending into a deep, sheer-walled pit. Within this natural arena the glider pilots engage in ritualistic gladiatorial combat. A...
from the back of the box... Global War The War against Germany and Japan, 1939-45 Global War is SPI's simulation of the most terrible war in human history - the Second World War. The simulation encompasses the entire world and all the areas of warfare - on and under the seas, in the air, on land, and in the factory. Economic warfare plays a vital role in...
From the game..."An exceptionally strange game of exploding children and their cheerfully homicidal baby-sitter in a really alien playpen." As in Ogre and Stomp here is a game with one big powerful unit on one side and a whole bunch of less powerful beings on the other. The difference here is the big and powerful Globbo grows bigger all the time (except...
BACKGROUND: GLORY FOR FRANCE is semi-historical simulation of the Napoleonic Wars at the dawn of the 19th Century. The Game begins in 1803, shortly after Napoleon Bonaparte seized power from the French Directory. The French are building up their forces and gathering their fleets in order to expand their Empire and spread the glory of France to neighboring...
In this epic civilization game, players guide their people through 1000 years of medieval history, evolving from humble chieftains with single settlements into rulers of mighty empires. Unlike traditional civilization games with preset factions, each player's nation evolves through branching paths - choose successor cultures each era based on your previous...
Technically The Glory of Rome is the title of a "Series of Historical-Political-Military Conflict-Simulations about the Ancient World" (to quote the cover), and this is volume one, The Complete Approach to the Wars between the CARTHAGE and ROME of Scipio Africanus and Hannibal, but since no other volumes were published the series title is being used for...
This game, the first in 3W's 'North and South' Civil War battle series, was first published in The Wargamer Magazine (#52). The game recreates the first Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle of the American Civil War. Morale played an important part of every Civil War battle, and Bull Run was no different. The first player to demoralize their...