Unhappy King Charles! allows two players to decide whether Commons or Cavalier shall rule in England. Both seek to establish control over the country and of its economic structures. They seek not only to defeat their opponents in battle but also to seize control of the local government of England and Wales. The game is based on We the People, Mark Herman's...
The year is 1642 and England is torn apart by a civil war between King Charles I and his supporters, the Royalists, and the Parliamentarians. In Unhappy King Charles, a two-player card-driven game, you must choose your side and fight for the control of England’s regions and economic centres. You will use cards to play historic events, recruit troops...
BACKGROUND: THE UNION ABLAZE is semi-historical game of the American Civil War (1861-1865) in the East, also, referred to as the Peninsula. The Game begins shortly after the Confederate States of America (CSA) fired on the Union Fort Sumter. The Confederates are now building up their forces and gathering their Naval Squadrons to kick the Union out of the...
Many events in American history have been labeled "trials of the century", but for a young nation, it would have been impossible to top United States v. Aaron Burr. Unlike Washington, Jefferson, Madison or Hamilton, Aaron Burr came from American royalty — a founding father descended from the original puritanical stock that arrived in Plymouth. His father...
The object of the game is to win the game by playing all of your cards, where the final cards you play are two or more "righteous" cards or a single Unity card. There are three categories of cards in the game: righteous, evil, and festival. Unity is a Biblically based strategy card game where "righteous" cards are played in unity to enter into...
University of Tokyo Protests 1968–1969 is a four-player game of the University of Tokyo protests from June 1968 to January 1969 by using GMT Games' COIN system. Each player plays the role of insurgency ("All-Campus Joint Struggle League" or "Democratic Youth League of Japan and Certain Party") or counterinsurgency ("Police" or "University and Ministry of...
Unsolved Mysteries: El Ancora de Fuego is an adventure, survival, mistery and terror game for 1 or 2 players that takes place in Japan in 1902. It's 2018. William Carter is a Brooklyn detective who reopens and investigates unsolved cases, whose evidence was sinister and inconclusive or potentially supernatural. In his current case several mental patients...
Only once in a great while does a game dare to be truly different and abandon old concepts while striking out to chart virgin territory in game design. Rarer still are the instances in which these games succeed in presenting a simulation of unparalleled realism in an easily comprehended and playable format. In UP FRONT, we have just such a game. Gone are...
Banzai expands upon 1983's most innovative and acclaimed game system to bring the steaming jungles of the SW Pacific to your gaming table. The mystique, incredible courage, and tragic flaws of the Japanese soldier are vividly portrayed in the tense, exciting games of simulated man-to-man combat which only Up Front presents in such panoramic splendor....
Desert War is an expansion variant to Up Front. Some of the scenarios and nationalities alluded to herein are found only in the latter. Just as Banzai provided a new environment and more nationalities for Up Front players, Desert War provides a new theatre for the skirmishes of existing nationalities as well as intriguing new hand capacities and...