This game is the re-edition of Outremer by Standard Games, but with a lot more rules and two entirely new playing modes: Strategical and Roleplaying. This is in fact a nearly totally different game, just sharing the included maps and counters (except the strategical ones). The game is from the series Cry Havoc with the same flavor of skirmish battle plus a...
This is the second expansion to Siege. This expansion was published in 1987 under the Eurogames banner. The game contains the same counter sheet as Siege, damage record sheets (to keep track of bombardment damage), a set of four map sheets that can be assembled to depict a walled medieval town with a citadel, and an eight page booklet describing rules for...
GUISCARD is a medieval man-to-man skirmish game and is a reboot of the original Game: Cry Havoc System. It is set during the epic conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily by the Normans, led by Robert Guiscard ("the cunning" or "the weasel"), in the eleventh century. The game features over 170 unique characters belonging to the various factions of the time as...
Ager Sanguinis ("The Field of Blood" in Latin) is the name of battle lost by Roger of Antioch in 1119. It is set in Northern Syria and simulates the fierce fights between the descendants of the Normans who followed Bohemond of Tarento, son of Robert Guiscard and founder of the principality of Antioch in the 12th Century. The game includes the various...
The Anarchy is the name given to the civil war over the succession to the throne of Henry I Beauclerc, King of England and Duke of Normandy, from 1135 to 1154. This war opposed Stephen of Blois and the Empress Matilda, wife of Geoffrey Plantagenet. Numerous castle sieges took place during this period, so this was the perfect opportunity to update all the...
Diex Aïe ("This Is God's Will" in Latin, the warcry of the Duke of Normandy) is set in England just after the battle of Hastings in the second half of the 11th Century. It depicts the numerous fights that Saxons fought to limit the "Norman Yoke". Diex Aïe introduces a campaign game system: It is used to generate tactical scenarios which are played on the...
VIKTORY II builds upon its predecessor, VIKTORY, also by Viktory Games. http://www.viktorygame.com A light wargame that lasts 1-4 hours, VIKTORY II features simple rules, 861 individual game components, and an aggressive style of play that avoids inaction and turtling. VIKTORY II is loosely based on 19th century warfare and supports up to eight players...
From the Perfect Captain website: The first in our series of Spare Change games, Villehardouin is a campaign game of the Byzantine Reconquest of the Morea in southern Greece in the year 1263 AD. Players take the role of either the Achaean Franks under Prince William de Villehardouin, freshly back from captivity in Constantinople, or that of the Byzantine...
DTP publication on the Anglo-French encounter at Vimeiro in Portugal on 11 August 1808. Uses the La Guerra de la Indepencia system rules (12 pages) which cover leaders, formation, various types of combat, including cavalry charges, and morale. The scenario employs a small number of event cards. The scenario rules are only 2 pages, although the long list of...
This is a game in the Napoleonic Battles Series covering the battle of Vimeiro on August 21st, 1808. Fist published as a DTP game in 2004. It was later now published as a boxed game together with another NBS-game: Talavera & Vimeiro. Napoleon Brigade Series (NBS) - scale = 180-200 m/hex (197-219 yrd/hex); - time = 30 min/GT (60 min/Night-GT); - strength =...
From the MDG website: At 5:30 AM, April 9, 1917, the artillery of British First Army unleashed the greatest barrage to that date. Half an hour later, 48,000 Canadian soldiers left their trenches to assault the impregnable Vimy Ridge. The French and the British had previously tried to capture the ridge but to no avail. On this battlefield the Canadians were...