Alea iacta est... 49 B.C. Rome is in turmoil. Armed mobs rule the streets. The First Triumvirate - overseers of the last days of the Roman Republic - has disintegrated. The Senate and the People have two options: on the one hand is the overweening ego, ambition, but limited military vision of Gnaeus Pompeius Magno - Pompey the Great. On the other hand is...
Dictator introduces two key battles from the fading years of the Roman Republic, when Rome was faced with three major outside threats -- the Numidians under King Jugurtha; the Germanic invasion of the Cimbri, Teutons, and Ambrones; and the threat from the east of King Mithridates of Pontus -- and wracked with civil wars and the conflict for power between...
An expansion for CAESAR: The Great Battles of Julius Caesar – The Civil Wars 48-45 B.C., this module is found in RBM/GMT's C3i Magazine Nr10 and is available here. The counters for this module were inserted in C3i #13 and can be found here. After Sulla marched on Rome and drove Marius out, Sertorius joined the Populares in opposing Sulla. This module...
Expansion module for the GBoH (Great Battles of History) series game Caesar: The Civil Wars. Portrays the battles of Nicopolis, 48BC, and Zela, 47BC. Requires the parent game and the Dictator expansion module. Expands: CAESAR: The Great Battles of Julius Caesar – The Civil Wars 48-45 B.C. and The Great Battles of Julius Caesar: The Civil Wars 48-45 B.C. –...
An expansion for CAESAR: The Great Battles of Julius Caesar – The Civil Wars 48-45 B.C., this module is found in RBM/GMT's C3i Magazine Nr14 and is available here. These scenarios detail Caesar's brief campaign in Spain during the Roman Civil War. Battles: Sicoris, 49 B.C. Ilerda, 49 B.C. Surprisingly, both of these scenarios favor the Senatorial Army...
The Violent Schoolmaster Tactical Series (VSTS) is (again) inspired by the late John Young and his PRESTAGS series for SPI. VSTS will cover all eras of warfare from the beginning of history until the 17th century. This series is possible because warfare changed relatively little between this period until the wars of the 17th century developed Pike & Shot...
Great Battles is a miniatures wargame that is played on a hex grid, it combines elements of board gaming and miniature wargaming in its rule mechanics. Movement and firing ranges as well as arcs of fire, front, flank and rear zones are all regulated by a hex grid. Each turn represents 30 minutes of real time and each hex is 250 yards across. Each hex can...
Game of the Second Boer War commencing October, 1899. Game comes in a small 9" x 6 1/2" x 7/8" box with a cover illustration of a well-dressed Victorian family playing a map-and-pin flags boardgame of the war. The cardstock hex map measures 16 1/2" x 11 5/8" and depicts the region of conflict running from cape Town and Port Elizabeth in the south to...
Xuzhou. This city has always been a battleground for strategists. In the past two thousand years, 158 bloody battles have been recorded in history. In November 1948, a decisive battle of unprecedented scale was about to break out. The number of troops participating in the war exceeded that at any time in the past. The total number of troops invested by the...
As an expansions, it was listed together with the Great Decisive Battle: The Campaign of Huaihai, 1948-1949 . It tells the battle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in the east of Henan Province in June 1948 before the outbreak of the Huaihai Campaign. With independent rule book and accessories, it can not only play independently, but also link...