Vae Victis issue 17. This game presents two scenarios set during the "heyday" of the Crusades: Saladin's reconquests and the Third Crusade. The scale is at one turn equals one month, one hexagon is about fifty kilometers, and counters represent about 4-800 men. This is roughly the same system used in "Belisarius" (issue 5), and rules are provided for siege...
A war game set in Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha, wherein players move armies composed of the five tribes of Prax--the Bison, the Morokanth, the Sable, the Impala, and the High Llama. The explanation of the game in the original rules describes it such: "This game is the second of an interlocking triad of fantasies which deal with various aspects of...
Vae Victis issue 23. This game is the second in the "Jours de Gloire" battle series, and covers Napoleon's great (but ultimately hollow) victory in Egypt over the Mamelukes at the Pyramids. Various "non-historical" scenarios give the battle some better balance between the Mamelukes and the French. As one of the smallest battles in the Jours de Gloire...
Les Quatre-Bras and Waterloo 1815 is a complete game in the Jours de Gloire series. It covers the battles which occurred on June 16th and 18th, during Napoléon’s offensive in Belgium against the armies of Wellington and Blücher. Les Quatre-Bras 1815 involves Ney and a single French corps attempting to secure a strategic crossroad defended by detachments...
Les Rois Francs (Frankish Kings) is a an introductory level tactical medieval wargame. It includes a rules booklet of 6 pages, 108 counters, three A4 maps. Four battles are included: - Fontenoy-en-Puisaye, 841 (Lothaire vs. Charles the Bald and Louis the German) - Jengland, 851 (Franks vs. Bretons) - Brissarthe, 866 (Franks vs. Bretons and Vikings) -...
This scenario shows the Bretons fighting the Vikings out of their country. Alain le Grand (Alain the Great) allies with Judicael then confronts the Vikings from the South of Brittany. At first, Judicael is beaten and killed but Alain makes a strong stand near Questembert and slaughters the Vikings. He becomes the sole ruler of Brittany for the next 17...
A la charge is a an introductory level tactical medieval wargame. A la charge: Roncevaux offers 3 scenarii for Les Rois Francs Roncevaux 778 - the Death of Roland Roncevaux 812 - the last submission of Pampelune Roncevaux 824 - independence of the Basque country It includes a map(A4) and 18 counters Ownership of Les Rois Francs(VV 100) is needed to play...
"At Cholet, the rebels fought like tigers and our troops fought like lions" General Kléber, commanding the french republican army Les Tigres et les lions (Tigers and Lions) is a game that deals with three battle fought during the Vendée war, between republican forces (the Blues) and Royalist (the Whites). On 29th June 1793, the white army failed to take...
LES TROIS PORTAILS is a game of medium complexity, a wargame in which you are the hero! It allows you to relive the epic of the Land of Alhandra, more exactly, the invasion of the chaos it undergoes by opening 3 magic portals. With a 16-page booklet of illustrated rules and scenario add-ons, a system inspired by that of ARS BELLUM, but introducing...
From 1745 to 1747, during the War of Austrian Succession, Maurice de Saxe won three great victories against the Allied Army known as the "Pragmatic Army". On May 11, 1745, at Fontenoy, after a brilliant maneuver, he drives the British-Dutch army, commanded by Cumberland, to confront him on the terrain of his choosing. Following a furious fighting where the...