Skirmish is a basic introduction to wargaming. Think of it as a game of chess on steroids. When most wargames fall short of enjoyment because of game length and complexity (Most last between 6-80 hours and take even longer to learn) we have kept this game simple and enjoyable so it can be learned and played in as short as 15 minutes. Of course we have...
Originally published in Strategy & Tactics magazine #203 (May/Jun 2000). Xenophon: 10,000 Against Persia is a two player wargame covering the Persian civil war from 401-387 B.C. The game is strategic in scale, with units representing forces of the Persian Empire, its satrapies, and bordering states. The mapsheet, overlaid with a hexagonal grid, covers an...
XIL is a turn-based strategy game for at least 2 players that brings the dynamic nature and tactical depth of classic RTS games to the home gaming table. The heart of the game is the 15x15 game mat, where your battlefield unfolds. Here you lead your forces into battle, capture strategically important positions, establish outposts and secure valuable...
"Yom Kippur" is a wargame about the 4th Arab-Israeli conflict: the 6th of October 1973, during the Yom Kippur holiday and also during the Ramadan, a combined attack was launched by the Egyptian army, coming through the Suez canal in the south, and the Syrian army, coming through the Golan Heights, in the north of Israel. The game includes basic rules and...
Yorktown: Un Assedio Che Decise la Nascita degli Stati Uniti is a Tactical level board-wargame on the Yorktown decisive siege which determined the end of the American Revolutionary War. Washington’s and Cornwallis’ problems for the decisive siege in the American War of Independence, reproduced on a 70x100 centimeter map, with the employment of all the...
Part of SPI's Modern Battles II: Four Contemporary Conflicts series, notable for its use of untried units to simulate the uncertainty of armies that have never seen battle. "Yugoslavia: The Battles for Zagreb, 1979" at the battalion/regimental level with hexes measuring a mile across, simulates combat in northern Yugoslavia in four scenarios.: "Civil War"...
Z Day Survivor: Per Ullus Opes ("By any means") is a turn based game of strategy and luck that features 8 unique characters for varying styles of play. Using a one-of-a-kind Zombie Survival Kit, track the spread of the virus, bonuses to movement, and organize items collected during your journey to become...the Z Day Survivor. —description from the...
Zhukov's Brutal Battle: Operation Mars, 1942 is a brigade to corps simulation of the battle, in 11 2-day turns, 25Nov-16Dec42, 7 miles/11 kilometers per hex, and 35 ground units on each side. (The weather reduced flight operations considerably.) The surrounding of the German 6th Army in Stalingrad had happened, and in the game von Kluge must try to...
Zhukov's First Victory: The Battle of Nomonhan, is an introductory level game of the battle between the Soviet Union and Japan's Kwantung Area Army in the summer of 1939. A series of border disputes between Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo and Soviet-controlled Mongolia since the spring escalated to an undeclared war. The Japanese sent the 23rd Infantry...
Bohemia, 1420. The King was dead. Less and less able to resist the encroachments of higher nobility and ever more prone to leaving the matters of state in the hands of others, Wenceslas IV of Bohemia had passed away that previous August. Allegedly, a stroke killed him upon hearing the news of the defenestration in Prague of anti-Reformation councillors....