In October 1806, Napoleon’s Grande Armee is descending on western Saxony in multiple columns. The Saxons and their more powerful Prussian cousins are gathering to give battle. On 10 October, the advance guard of one French column crashes into the advance guard for one wing of the allied armies. A French victory will open the possibility of splitting the...
Sabotile: Isles of Hexoté is a competitive 2-6 player capture-the-flag game with tile management based progression. As a chieftain of one of the six tribes on the island of Hexoté, you will start in your people's village outskirts and attempt to bring back your sacred totem, stolen by the god of chaos Mesba, from the center temple. However, it has been...
Description from the publisher: Sabres and Smoke: The War of 1812 is a 2-player, turn-based light strategy board game set during the War of 1812. From Trenton in the Michigan Territory, to Fort George and Queenston Heights in Upper Canada, to the shores of Baltimore, Maryland, players will be able to pit British and Canadian infantry, militia, artillery...
Sacramentum Gladiatorum is a game recreating gladiatorial combat in the arena in ancient Rome. Turns are played simultaneously by players. In the first step, they will plan the move or the action for each gladiator. In the second step, they will reveal their orders and apply the results. Combats are also planned using counters to determine where the...
"Sacrifice in the East is a two-player game based on the final months of World War Two where the Soviet Army finally ejected German forces from the Soviet Union. The portion of the battle simulated here represents a nightmare delaying action as German forces tried futilely to prevent the avenging Red Army from penetrating Germany during the final days of...
“There's a valley in Spain called Jarama. it's a place that we all know so well. It was there that we fought against the fascists. We saw a peaceful valley turn to hell.”—Excerpt from Woody Guthrie’s song Battle of Jarama. After failing to take Madrid in November, Francisco Franco ordered his forces to cut off the former capital city and now symbol of...
Saddam Moves South (SMS) is an operational level two player wargame covering a hypothetical Iraqi invasion of Saudi Arabia in 1990. The assumption here is that after the Iraqi army overran Kuwait in the first week of August 1990, Saddam Hussein continued the offensive to grab the vital oilfields of Saudi Arabia. In response, the United States leads a...
Sadowa covers the one day battle (spread over 13 turns) between the Prussians and the Austrians (and their Saxon allies) during the 1866 Bohemian campaign. Standard game (4 pages of rules), and a more advanced game with setup information (an additional 4 rules pages) with simultaneous plotting and some minor changes to the core system. Units represent...
Sadowa: a name that sounded like a thunderclap at the turn of the 19th century. Also known as Königgrätz in the German world, it was the largest battle in the Western world after the Napoleonic Wars and up until World War I. It also marked, and contrary to what all observers expected, the fall of the power that had dominated the Germanic world for four...
A person could make the case that Sadowa is the single most significant battle in the last 200 years. What? An unheard-of campaign from an almost overlooked war(Austria v Prussia, 1866)? But consider... if the Austrians had won at Sadowa, there might not have been a powerful Prussia, who beats the French in 1870, unites Germany, and competes with Great...
In this lightweight fantasy game you get a random race (elf/undead/human/orc or demon) and a random saga (fight/duel/treasure/mist/crown). The races all have a leader and 3-4 soldiers. Elf, undead and human have 1 character with a ranged attack. Each saga has a different goal. Fight saga is a battle between all characters. Duel is just the leaders fighting...