There are worlds that are ruled by creatures of the sky, great beasts of mythology that have never known anything but dominance. Generations ago, a rift opened up between these worlds and they became infested with invisible portals that led from one to the other but not necessarily back. The result was a macrocosm that could not be mapped and in which no...
Fast-playing, simple pulp-gaming rules that use free downloadable paper counters and four kinds of map sets (included). 2+ players. From the rules: Pulp gaming, in which each player controls a character or faction from a 1930's pulp thriller, is growing in popularity. Such games combine the visual appeal of miniatures gaming with aspects of role-playing...
You thought you were the only pirates on the high seas? You were wrong! In this expansion, 4 more pirates will fight with you for treasure and glory. With them come events that make the sea even more dangerous. Luckily, the parrots will help you! Loyal companions that every self-respecting pirate captain needs! Ihr dachtet, ihr seid die einzigen Piraten...
“The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant must he necessarily be to enter into a melee with equal forces, in which all these advantages will be thrown away, chance reign supreme, and his fleet be place on terms of equality with an assemblage of ships which have never...
To Take Washington is a new Line of Battle (LoB) series game covering Jubal Early’s campaign during the summer of 1864. From June into July, Old Jube swept out of the Shenandoah Valley and across the Potomac River to advance on Washington DC. By threatening the Federal capital, Early and the Confederate command hoped to divert forces from Grant’s Overland...
This is an evolution of the Westwar series first introduced by Vanguard Games with Pas de Calais. Other games using a similar system are Tide of Fortune and the Italian Campaign series (Sicily, Salerno, Anzio and Med War). To The Far Shore features the Allied invasion at Normandy, Operation Cobra, and the Falaise Pocket. Scale is 1-2 days/turn (variable...
To the Green Fields Beyond is an operational simulation of the Battle of Cambrai, 1917, the first great tank battle in history. David Isby : From the Designers Notes "As I write this I am sitting at my typewriter in my extremely comfortable office, a mug of hot, sweet tea by my right hand, and telling you what the Battle of Cambrai was like. That is a...
By the beginning of October, 2014, the first set piece battle in the war with the radical ISIS terrorists occurred at Kobani, Syria, along the Syrian‐Turkish border. ISIS intended to secure this border town to make it easier for their volunteers to enter Syria from Turkey. But, like many battles, it was a battle that need not to have occurred. ISIS...
The Honshu War, 1950-53 (HW) is a two-player, low-to-intermediate complexity, strategic simulation of the war that could have resulted had Japan ended up divided between Communist and US occupation forces at the end of World War II. The Soviet player is mainly on the offensive, attempting to win the game by seizing key objectives within the territory of...