Abstracted from the introduction: In 1898 Fred Jane published 'Rules for the Jane naval war game - a Sea Kriegspiel'. This was also the year when the first of the 'Jane's Fighting Ships' appeared. There seems to have been a 1906 version of the game, but his last work on the subject was the 1912 version, here reprinted in 1990. Fred Jane's version of the...
This chess-like game was inspired by Shogi and themed around an anime style. Players set up the two different starter armies consisting of seven holy warriors, seven power-harvesting pawns and two power-harvesting uber-pawns. Fourteen warriors came with the starters, fifteen from the first expansion, and fifteen from the final expansion. Instead of the...
The Battle of the Nile, also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay, was a major naval battle fought between the British Royal Navy and The First French Republic Navy on August 1-3, 1798, at Aboukir Bay, on the Egyptian Mediterranean coast. This volume also contains The Battle of Algeciras Bay, the Battle of Lake Erie, and the battles of the American super...
If a player's movement spin ends on a submarine they do not move and instead turn the knob in the center of the gameboard. This may cause submarines to appear in some of the holes in the board. Players can move ships near the submarines to attack them, which is done by placing the submarine on the separate cardboard piece and launching the depth charge at...
Near Chess is similar to Skirmish Chess by Tony Paletta, in that both start with pieces forward one row, eliminating the initial double move of the pawn. The purpose of Near Chess differs from Skirmish Chess however, in that its purpose to be one of the fastest ways to introduce people to chess, and the world of chess variants, without being trivial to...
Nebula 19 is a combat-oriented space game which features a three-dimensional map and simultaneous movement and combat. The map has a square grid with numbers along the X and Y axes, and each star and nebula has a number (numbers in the case of nebulae) which gives its position on the Z axis. Many numbered counters are provided to place with ships to show...
Necklace is a drawless connection game for two players: Red and Blue. It is played on the intersections (points) of an initially empty square grid (board). The top and bottom edges of the board are colored red; the left and right edges are colored blue. A crosscut is a 2×2 area containing two diagonally adjacent red stones and two diagonally adjacent blue...
In this cat-themed variant on Go, players attempt to capture territory with cat-shaped pieces that take up 1, 2, 3 or 4 grid squares. Each cat also faces a certain direction, and may not be placed making eye contact with another cat (they would fight) or looking directly off the edge of the board (cats like to know what's going on). They also may never...
Nelaxtam is an abstract strategy game in which players are trying to land troops on an island, represented by a 12x12 board. Each space on the board is marked with a white or black marker and the goal is to destroy your opponents territory and remove those markers from the board. Troop movement and action is revealed simultaneously by both players. Troops...
Neo Chess is an absorbing Chess variation inspired by Shogi, the Japanese chess game which is a distant relative of western chess. In Neo chess, any captured piece becomes a turncoat which may be re-entered on the board to fight for its captor. This game is part of the Abacus wood box series. This game was intended to be published in the 3M Bookshelf...
The year is 2123 AD. Neo-Gravity Racing has become the biggest sport in the world. Get on the track. Hit the boost pads — but watch out for attacks! Do you have what it takes to cross the finish line first? Neo-G Racing (Clear Duels Series) is a futuristic combat racing game for 2 players (competitive) that combines hand management, route building, sealed...