(from the Firefight Games website) Nawana was a turning point battle. It was here, a Bolivian Army led by German General Kundt, armed with new weapons (tanks, flame-throwers, fighter-bombers) assaulted the Paraguayan defenses not from Paraguay's capitol. Kundt had been led to believe the defenses were weak, that the tanks would break through and that once...
This game is the first in the Oriental Flagship Company's "Red Remembrances" series. This simple game simulates the August 1, 1927 Nanchang Rebellion, when Communist forces first rebelled against the Kuomintang. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanchang_Uprising The game uses roughly 40 magnetic counters on a board with a hexagonal grid, a die, and a set of...
A tabletop combat game system using 1.75 inch little rubber keshi figures called Nanoids. Take control of Nanoids as an Operator, your task is to close the power hungry rifts opening all over the world. Use your 6 Command cards to simultaneously activate your Nanoids in Nano Battle! Each card has a number indicating how many seconds it takes for your...
The game "Napoleon" was included in Spielbox 6/86 as part of the "Spiel zum Herausnehmen/Game to Remove" series. Thought as an introduction to Cosim games, this game has simplified wargame rules. Anyway, the Allied and French forces enter play according to a detailed time plan. The hex board is somehow exchangeable for Napoleonic battles, because no...
Apparently, the first wargame made in France. Published by the designer (Jean-Pierre Défieux) in 1977. Very simple French wargame about the famous battle. It uses the simple attacker/defender odds table with elimination, retreat or "exchange". No command system, no special rules, a good game to introduce novices to concept of ZOC, combat odds, movement...
Napoleon Against Russia - From Smolensk to Moscow and beyond August 16-October 24, 1812 contains five battles from the critical phase of the Campaign, when the Russian Army finally gave Napoleon the decisive battles he so greatly desired. His first maneuver starts out well—with the French poised to slip into Smolensk behind the Russians. However, the...
This is a strategic and operational scale game of the central European theaters of the Napoleonic Wars (France, Austria, Prussia, N. Italy, 1805-1815). Napoleon and his Marshals covers 1805-1815 in France and Central Europe. Other expansions are underway that will add the Peninsular War, the Patriotic War in Russia and maps of Scandinavia and the rest of...
The first addition to Napoleon and his Marshals expands the series to include the wars in Spain and Portugal from 1805-1815, with scenarios for 1807-1814 and 1809-1814. The basic set (Napoleon and his Marshals) is required to play. The complete British army and navy for the basic game is added, along with the Spanish army and navy and the Portuguese army....
Part of 3W's 'Bonaparte' Series by Keith Poulter, this game was first published in The Wargamer Magazine (#49). The portrait on the magazine cover is of French Marshal Jean Lannes, who died at Aspern-Essling. The game is a two-player simulation of the Battle of Aspern-Essling, May 21-22, 1809. One player leads Napoleon Bonaparte's Grande Armée d'Allemagne...
This games was published in Strategy & Tactics magazine #113. Napoleon and the Archduke Charles: The Battle of Abensberg is a game for two players, simulating the battle of Abensberg which took place on April 20th, 1809. One player commands the French forces, the other the Austrians. Rules on movement, combat, leadership and morale reflect the problems and...
This games was published in Strategy & Tactics magazine #114. Napoleon and the Archduke Charles: The Battle of Eckmuhl is a game for two players, simulating the battle of Eckmuhl which took place on April 21-22, 1809. One player commands the French forces, the other the Austrians. The map is an accurate representation of the battlefield, the counters...