You are the Vanguard… the first. Reach into the unknown with fledgling spacefaring technology and hopefully return to accolades. As Commander, your goal is to successfully complete your missions and discover what lies beyond Sol. Velocity: Vanguard is a physics-based space board game with fast and kinetic gameplay. Story driven missions are designed for 1...
Vencer o Morir (to win or die) covers the largest single battle of the Chaco War in December, 1933. Known as the Battle of Campo Via, the Paraguayan’s had massed (with the knowledge of the Bolivians’ air reconnaissance) twice as many divisions aimed at the thinly defended lines and no Bolivian reserves. Just north of Alihuata, the Bolivian lines simply...
Vandée Militaire 1793-1794 Fatherland is in danger! In the west, the Vendeans refuse to fight at the borders and demand their good priests. A terrible war begins! March 1793, the popular revolt and its charismatic generals, Cathelineau, La Rochejaquelein or Charette, upset the young republic. It pulls itself together with Kléber or the terrible Westermann...
This is a simulation of the final battle between the forces of Good and Evil on the planet Venerable. The weaponry is akin to that used in 15th or 16th century earth warfare. A bit of Magic is thrown in occasionally and the units sport somewhat 'colorful' names, e.g. The "Foul" "Lowest of the Low" Fetor and the Sycophant for the forces of Evil AND "Khan"...
This is a tactical space combat game in the Warriors of the Dark Star: The Age of the Neutron Wars series, and includes the second edition rulebook for that game (as a series rulebook). From a GFG catalog (reproduced verbatim): This pits the Fast Omega Ship "Formidable" Class, their Deadly Alpha Battleship "Victorious" Class, and their Fast Beta Battle...
Vengeance is a hex & counter quadrigame, set in an alternate timeline in which NATO, China, Iran, and other nations ally to invade and conquer a resurgent Soviet Union in 2025. Vengeance recalls fondly-remembered, continent-spanning alt-history strategic games of the 1970s, but at an operational scale offering fast-moving gameplay, with special rules to...
This is a boardgame of a sail naval battle for 2 players. 30min-1hr gameplay time. It takes you to the age of great galleons, frigates, pirates and treasures. You have to show your strategic skills to turn victorious. Both players have a fleet of sail warships. They move all ships one after another according to the wind direction which changes by the cards...
Veracruz: U.S. Invasion of Mexico, was originally published in Strategy & Tactics magazine #63. Veracruz is an operational simulation of General Winfield Scott's Mexican campaign, which took place between March and September 1847. The invasion was an American effort to end the Mexican War by marching into the heart of Central Mexico to capture the capital...
Vae Victis issue 46. This game covers the battle of Verdun at the scale of one day per turn, 850 m per hex, and counters of regiments and battallions of infantry (plus counters representing command units, aircraft squadrons, and artillery groups). The game uses a slightly modified and updated version of the system used in Vae Victis issue 24, "Le Matz." It...
The 1978 release of Verdun, though based on the 1972 release from Conflict Games (designed by John Hill), is a completely new game with a new designer (Marc W. Miller). "Verdun: A Dagger at the Heart of France" is an Operational level board-wargame simulation of the 1916 German offensive that was supposed to "bleed the French white" in a single great...
Hoping to bring a decisive conclusion along the Western Front despite the mud-and misery-filled trench deadlock, German General von Falkenhayn launched an attack from which the French could not retreat, and would prove costly for them to defend. The goal of the German offensive was the historic and symbolic city of Verdun. The German attack used new...
'Verdun' is an operational wargame of the German attack on Verdun during the World War One. The game includes special rules for Demoralization, German flamethrower units, French fanaticism and Phosgene gas attacks. Contains 300 counters [From the back of the box] "In the winter of 1916 General Falkenhayn of the German High Command decided to knock France...