On September 18th 1941 the Italian submarine Sciré released 3 two-man crew S.L.C (Siluro a Lenta Corsa) Maiale (Pig) class mini-submarines to attack Allied shipping in what many thought was an impregnable harbor, safe from any enemy attack. The Italian raiders sank three merchant vessels; the cargo ship Durham and two tankers, Denbydale and Fiona. For...
Starting in December of 1942, and again in May and July of 1943, the Italians used an interned freighter, the Olterra, as a base from which their “frogmen” limpeters commandoes conducted daring night-time raids against Allied shipping in the harbor near Gibraltar. The raiders’ base of operations was never discovered until Italy surrendered on September 8...
Derby is a horse race game played with cards. The full game includes some rules for betting, but these are rather rudimentary (the included gaming money is of best quality though - ASS is a famous playing card manufacturer in Germany). The deck for the race contains 66 cards plus 6 horse cards. Each player chooses a horse. There are 11 cards in the deck...
A quick, fully self-contained card battler game. The game comes with 20 "Thing Cards", which are drafted out to each player until each player has 10. Each has an attack and defense stat, as well as an effect. The players then shuffle their decks and set their life to 20. On their turn, up to 3 cards on their 3 spaces. Then, choose opponent spaces to...
Based on a popular TV show in France. There are actually two games in this one. In these two games two players will try to accumulate the most points. The first game is a word game called Le mot le plus long. Both players randomly draw letter tiles asking for either a vowel or a consonant and then they both try to find the longest word using only those...
The emperor and its royal household walk proudly in the palace garden. Everyone made the cunning weavers manufacture a marvelous dress for him. By great fear to be considered as too stupid neither the emperor nor its officials dare to throw a view on their shade. There they can recognize that they are naked in reality. Fortunately a small boy, who sits in...
From the game's box: Desafino is a funny idea that puts music, talent and creativity in a game. Desafino can be played by 2 or more teams. Each turn, one participant from a team draws a card that has a song and a tip about it. The player's objective is to make his/her team to discover the name of the song. Everything is possible: mumble the song, imitate...
Conquer the largest number of islands of the archipelago of the Azores. The player who answers correctly two questions about the Azores, can choose which island is conquered. Bilingual: English/Portuguese Roll the dice and move player pawns through the archipelago the required number of spaces in any direction and answer the appropriate question based on...
“Yakum purkan min shemaya.” (Salvation will come from heaven). –Line from an Aramaic prayer. Desert Eagles is an introductory level game about aerial combat set in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Israel’s victory in this war assured its status as an independent nation, and set off decades of conflict with its Arab neighbors that lasts to this day. Each copy of...