La Grande Armee covers Napoleon's 1805 campaign in Germany-Austria, a campaign which culminated in his great victory of Austerlitz over the combined Austro-Russian armies. The new La Grande Armee wargame system recreates entire Napoleonic campaigns using a small number of pieces, largely corps and armies. Each player has a set of cards which bring in their...
La Grande Guerre 14-18 (The Great War 14-18) The English rule set was released in 2002. La Grande Guerre is a strategic simulation of World War 1. Two maps cover all of Europe. Off map boxes represent Asia / Africa. Game year is broken down into 9 turns. Production takes place on the interphase every 3 turns. Either side may move first on a given turn. Two...
Alea Magazine issue 28. Africa 1859-60: the last romantic war. Simulation of three battles of the Spanish-Moroccan War of 1859-60: Castillejos 1859, Wad Ras 1860, Tetuán 1860. Complete game with historical intro, rulebook 3 DIN A3 maps and 200 full color, cut and paste counters. Scale: battalions and regiments, individual ships. Complexity: (1-10): 4....
On the 12 April 1861 the Confederate army bombs Fort Sumter, starting the American Civil War. On the 9 April 1865, General Lee and his Confederate army surrender to General Grant at Appomattox, ending four years of war. This game recreates the whole war (translation from box cover). This game was published as part of the "second wave" of NAC´s wargames in...
Wargame that represents the Iran-Iraq War. Components: two 65x45cms. boards, 16 pages rules book, two six-sided dice and 210 counters and markers. The boards represents: Persian Gulf and countries, and the Iran-Iraq border line. The game has several levels of difficulty: basic 1 (ground scenario), advanced 1 (airground), basic 2 (aircraft) and advanced 2...
"Super Juegos" was a pioneer Spanish magazine about both, board and computer games, which was published between 1984-1985. Every issue included a board game inside, with rules and cut-out counters. As far as I know only eight numbers were published, at least in its first epoch (another publication with the same name would appear years later, this time...
La guerre de Jugurtha (also known as "the Jugurthine's war") is a strategical game covering the war fought by the king of Numidia, Jugurtha, against the Republic of Rome. Jugurtha met initially successes against poor roman leaders and a poorly trained roman army (-111 to -110), but had later to cope first with the aristocratic general Quintus Metellus...
A magazine game from Jeux et Stratégie #25. A simulation of the 1793-1796 revolt against the French Republic in Vendée. The game includes 4 scenario: 1. Uprising (march 1793), duration: 12 turns. 2. The Convention at bay (June 1793), duration : 7 turns. 3. The last burst (February - april 1794), duration: 7 turns. 4. The Agony (february - march 1796)...