General Burgoyne has to get his army of 8,000 British and Prussian troops to Albany to join forces with General Howe before his supplies run out. But blocking his way is a force of Americans under Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnold. Will he break through or will he be a lion caught in a net? Lion in a Net: Saratoga 1777 is a simulation of historical events...
This game is a two-player simulation of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935-36. This war holds the distinction of being the largest colonial war ever fought in Africa and was the first round of the European portion of what would become World War II. The game includes a 12 page rulebook, a 22" x 34" mapsheet, and 164 counters. For the Italians, victory...
Tiger of Ethiopia was published in Command Magazine 6 and is a variant of Lion of Ethiopia (published in Command Magazine 4 which is required in order to play this variant). In this alternate history, Nazi Germany and Japan were victorious in WW II have turned on each other to start WWW III in 1948. This game deals with the Japanese invasion of the Horn of...
Lion of Judah: The War for Ethiopia, 1935-1941 is a two-player wargame simulating two campaigns located in the Horn of Africa - Italy vs. Ethiopia in 1935-1936, and the British Commonwealth and Ethiopia vs. Italy in 1940-1941. The scenarios use a common rule set combined with scenario-specific rules. Regular units are mostly divisions, brigades and...
(From the publisher) The war for minds and souls had been raging for ten destructive years when the vaunted, virtually undefeated Catholic army of the Hapsburg emperor and his allied German states looked across the gentle valley of Breitenfeld directly into the blinding rays of the dawn of modern warfare. By the end of the day, Tilly's lumbering army lay...
Lion’s Heart, Saracen’s Steel: The Battle of Arsuf, September 7, 1191. This is the latest game in the Battles of the Middle Ages Series, an easy to learn wargame system that tries to recreate most of the principal battles fought from Roman Times to the dawning of Renaissance. These games are designed to be fast and furious, easy to learn and to play, but...
Lepanto, October 7, 1571 Game in NoTurkeys! n.4 2.2009 Days of Lepanto were the last days of the galleys. The sailing ships, which timidly appeared in this battle, represented the future: in comparison to the galleys, they were faster on long distances and they could bring a greater number of guns. Lepanto also constituted the last important occasion in...
In the summer of 1942, after the capture of Tobruk, the German-Italian forces under the command of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel were in a strategic position to continue their advance in North Africa. The fall of Tobruk, a major Libyan port defended by British forces, was a severe blow to the British Eighth Army, which was forced to retreat rapidly eastwards...
A 2004 abstract game designed by Bill Taylor and João Pedro Neto, inspired by Christian Freeling's Havannah. The game is played on an hexhex board with alternating sizes 8/9 and where no edge hex has special status, i.e., corner hexes are not treated differently than any other hexes at the edge. That is achieved by modelling the board perimeter as a circle...
User summary: In the year 1977, Atlantic produced, inside their games-line called “Il Gioco delle Battaglie” (The Game of Battles), 5 "board-wargames" of the Old West/Indian Wars theme (code number from 1456 to 1460 in their catalog). Each set included soldiers, vehicles and accessories from their HO-scale toy soldiers production, plus a different playing...