The third game of the Gold & steel series, Cortés et la conquête du Mexique 1519-1521 (Cortes and the conquest of Mexico 1519-1521) is a historical simulation featuring the “first war of the worlds”; Spain, the rising European power and the Central America dominant civilization, the Aztec Empire. This a medium to high complexity 2 players game. One turn is...
"Pouch" Series Game #8 Cromwell is a dual game, that is, two levels of complexity are provided. The game board shows a strategic map of England at the time of the First Civil war (September, 1642, to May, 1646) separated into counties and important cities, hereafter referred to as AREAS. Is a two players game, but more players may be added. In all...
A States of Siege (TM) game. This solitaire game, suitable for group and classroom cooperative game play, tells the story of the English Civil Wars (1640-53) through its key events and decision points. You attempt to stop the advance of four armies bent on destroying Parliament and Puritanism, whom you represent; simply holding on to London is not enough....
English Civil War is a simple strategic level game of the English Civil War 1642-5, using area movement. There are 4 sheets of counters in the game: 1 small one called "Marker" includes 18 green counters (2 of them blank), 1 small one called "Scottish" includes 28 yellow counters (2 of them blank), 1 large sheet called "Parliamentary" includes 126 red...
The second (and last) of Fractal Dimensions' line of "Gamelets" - comic-book sized games inspired by the microgames of the 1980s. Escape From Dinosaur Island! involves U.S. Marines in the South Pacific, circa 1944, who find themselves on an island filled with prehistoric beasts. The game uses two mapsheets. One is a hex-grid encounter map showing an...
Fire in the Blue transports you to the strategic crucible of the Mediterranean, where iconic battles raged between the Axis and Allied forces. Witness the critical role of aircraft and submarines in scouting and unleashing devastating attacks. Experience the awesome hail of anti-aircraft fire and the fury of carrier-launched fighters as air formations...
Become a hard-boiled private eye, navigate through the dangerous "noir" world, and find your destiny - maybe even your femme fatale! In Game Noir, players become private detectives and have to decide wisely what to do with their action points as they move along the NOIR path. Unpredictable events occur there, the detectives may encounter the femme fatale...
The Story so Far… Your squad of Special Ops soldiers has been sent on a Top Secret mission to a remote part of South America. Before you can reach your Landing Zone, your chopper crashes, many kilometers away from your destination. Salvaging what you can from the wreckage, armed with a GPS uplink, your wits and weapons, you must fight your way through an...
Both (where) Will Lee Turn? strategic and Lee Has Turned! operational-tactical games at division combat unit level for the South and corps for the Union overall. Fast and simple. Can be solitaire at the strategic level. Different maps for different scales, including a specific one for the Battle of Gettysburg, if Lee turns to it as historically. Hidden...
Format: In development; board wargame and VASSAL module. A Glorious Chance is a solitaire wargame that puts you in command of the U.S. or British naval squadron on Lake Ontario in the critical summer of 1813. You have four months to dominate the lake. But each patrol, each convoy mission, each amphibious landing you make to pursue victory risks full-scale...
In one of the First World War’s best-known naval escapades, the German battle cruiser Goeben eluded her British and French pursuers in August 1914, escaping to Turkey and helping to widen the war into entirely new theaters. That would only be the first of many naval operations on the Mediterranean Sea and the adjoining Adriatic and Black Seas with naval...