MONTGISARD is the name of the battle won by Baldwin IV, the Leper King of Jerusalem in 1177 against the Egyptian army of Saladin. This game is an extension for AGER SANGUINIS and introduces new knight Templar counters as well as famous characters like Reynald de Chatillon, Balian of Ibelin and the Leper King himself. The game also includes a double-map of...
Sometimes you don’t have to OUTRUN THE BEAR… you just have to outrun your friends. In Outrun the Bear you’ll play against up to five friends as you manage your cards in the race for your lives. Start at the campsite, and use action, reaction, and equipment cards to make it all the way to the parking lot and the safety of the car (while helping or...
"Over the Hump Airlift Campaign 1942-1945" is a simulation of the airlift to China in World War II. The simulation includes 58 pages of rules and procedures, scenarios, counter sheets, and map sections. There are 16 scenarios beginning with an introductory basic scenario involving one China National Aviation Corporation DC-3 type aircraft flying a...
The first of J.D. Webster's World War II air combat wargames. This game focuses on combat over Europe from 1943-1945. It's first game of the Fighting Wings series. The second game in the series, Achtung Spitfire, appeared in 1995 with upgraded the game mechanics and Whistling Death, the third entry in the series with further revisions, was published in...
A "quad" boxed game from Decision Games that also links its "game system" to two other paired WWI battles published in Strategy & Tactics magazine (Mons/Marne #186 and Lemberg/Verdun #198). The boxed game includes the following four battles: Brusilov Offensive, 1916 Riga, 1917 St. Mihiel, 1918 Damascus, 1918 These four battles are all unusual in that they...
Two extra games from the Over the Top! Quad system that were published in Strategy & Tactics magazine #186, Jul/Aug 1997. 1 turn = 1/2 day, 1 hex = 2 miles. Mons, 23-27 August 1914 : "As the right wing of the German Army swept through Belgium in the opening days of the World War, the British landed the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the continent....
A game of the 1918 campaigns on the Western and Italian Fronts during World War One, using units that are mostly divisions and brigades, with two-week turns, and maps at 16 miles per hex. Optional scenarios extend the war into 1919-1920, and allow Over There to be mated with the game March to Victory: West Front 1914-1916 to play out all of World War One...
It’s time to hit the arena, Coach! Draft your team and get ready to face-off in one of six different action-packed game modes. Pass the bomb, capture the flag or fight to become king of the hill - but knowing when to unleash your players’ powerful OverDrive move will be key to coming out on top. Whatever you do, don’t go down without a fight! OverDrive...
It is a 2 players versus abstract strategy game. To win the game, any unit that can reach the opponent’s Homebase. It’s inspired by Chinese chess. Players have 8 units each, with 4 different tiers. Merge and respawn are the key elements of the game. To get the stronger tier units on the battlefield, players have to get two units in the same spot and merge...
"Overlord" is an operational wargame of the Allied invasion and breakout from the Normandy peninsula. Overlord is a historical game/simulation of the fighting in Northwestern France through the months of June, July, and August, 1944, including the periods of the Cobra Breakout, the German Mortain Counteroffensive, and the cataclysmic Battle of the Falaise...
This game covers the first few days of the Normandy campaign, at one day per turn and each counter representing a regiment or less. It uses a similar system to that which appeared in Ardennes 1944. This is one of Vae Victis' larger games, with several maps and counters to remove from the pages of the magazine itself, along with the usual number that comes...