Two new battle modules and a variant for SPQR found in RBM/GMT's C3i Magazine Nr6. The leader counters for this expansion were shipped in C3i - #9. These modules focus on Hannibal's youngest brother Mago, and cover three battles. • Celt-Iberia, 207 B.C. • Po River, 203 B.C. • Mago Lives: a variant for SPQR Scenario (11.4) - Zama Celt-Iberia 207 B.C Mago...
An expansion to SPQR, this module is found in RBM/GMT's C3i Magazine Nr7. At the conclusion of the First Punic War mercenaries were shipped back from Sicily to Carthage to be demobilized. However returning to Carthage they were not paid by the home authorities. This situation eventually burst into insurrection and mutiny with heavily taxed rual villagers...
An expansion for SPQR, this module is found in RBM/GMT's C3i Magazine Nr8. The leader counters are found in C3i Nr9. One of the two Roman generals battling Hannibal in the first half of the Second Punic War. While Quintus Fabius became known as The Delayer for avoiding battle with Hannibal, Marcus Claudius Marcellus became known as The Sword of Rome for...
A new battle module for SPQR found here, published in RBM/GMT's C3i Magazine Nr9. After the Carthaginian mercenaries rose up slew their Carthaginian commanders they offered to surrender the island to Rome. In a violation of the treaty signed at the end of the First Punic War the Senate annexed the island, and when Carthage complained Rome threatened war...
Jugurtha simulates the two key battles of the Jugurthine War (112-105 BC), in which Rome expanded to take virtually all of North Africa, destroying, in the process, the once-proud kingdom of Numidia ... Jugurtha also gives gamers something they rarely see in ancient world battles: guerrilla warfare. Here's a rare chance to test your on-field maneuver...
A significant simplification of GMT's popular Great Battles of History series, this is a set of rules that allows you to play scenarios from many of the various GBOH games and their expansion modules. Many of the more fiddly aspects of the system have been dramatically simplified (shock combat, missile combat, orderly withdrawal, elephants, leader...
An expansion for SPQR and War Galley: Naval Warfare in the Ancient World, this module is found in RBM/GMT's C3i Magazine - issue #14, pages 9-14. The issue includes historical background on Pyrrhus, initial deployment information and victory conditions. No counters or maps are included. This battle uses counters from SPQR as well as counters from the C3i -...
The Battle of the Tagus River (220 BC) is GMT's Battle Scenario for SPQR, published in RBM's C3i Magazine Nr. 18. It depicts Hannibal's first battle in Spain 220 BC. After laying siege on the Vaccei's cities of Hermandica and Arbocala, Hannibal sacked the towns within a short time. On his way back to New Carthago he travelled full of booty offering the...
Barbarian is a tactical simulation of combat between the armies of Rome and her early barbarian foes, the Samnites and Gauls, from 315-200 B.C. To play Barbarian, you will need the game SPQR for maps, basic rules, and some counters. Barbarian can also be played with the Simple Great Battles of History Rules. As Rome strove to conquer the Italian peninsula...
Eleven years have passed since the outbreak of the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage. Both sides have become exhausted after long years of battling and campaigning across the Mediterranean Theater. From Spain, Hasdrubal Barca marches toward Italy to join his brother Hannibal. Together they seek to bring this long, hard conflict to an end. Rome is...
The Battles of Herdonia, 212 & 210 BC, is GMT's Battle Scenario for SPQR, published in RBM's C3i Magazine Nr. 20. After Cannae, most Roman generals accepted the wisdom of Fabius the 'Delayor'; against Hannibal, discretion was definitely the better part of valor. Fortunately for the historical wargaming community, two generals were foolish enough to accept...