This is a simulation game designed to re-create the essence of World War I aerial combat in the last two years of the war. All of the major aircraft types of that time are included. Use of maneuver cards, covering the aerobatic possibilities of the era, as well as dice and charts, for probability resolution, make for realistic dogfight challenges. The game...
Peter Pig games always cover a narrow period in order to capture that period. Thus the most important aspects of that war can be modelled and the less important ones piled into the general mechanisms. The Mexican revolution 1910 -1920 Game setting Army versus army defence/attack games. Typical army composition Most PP games use about 100 figures a side....
Fightopia! from Cheapass Games was published in issue #50 of Game Trade Magazine, page 64. Taking place on a chess board, the game depicts futuristic combat between giant robots. Each player has ten Pawns (which are used for blocking), two Tanks (which can destroy pawns), and one Giant (which can kill tanks). To win, you must either move your Giant all the...
Final Act is an abstract, simultaneous move game of tank versus tank action, using an innovative "control panel" system that lets players program their moves--for up to seven tanks each-- quickly. Both the direction the tank moves and where it points are covered with quick dials and then revealed to the opponent after both sides have finished. Designed by...
Finta is a drawless connection game for two players: Red and Blue. It is played on a square grid of dots arranged in rows and columns. The dots on the first and last rows are connected to their neighbors on the same row with horizontal red lines, and the dots on the first and last columns are connected to their neighbors on the same column with vertical...
The city is burning! A devastating fire spreads unstoppable, smoke and sparks swirl through the streets, and the desperate cries of trapped civilians echo through the night. But in the midst of this inferno, there is hope: the Fire Angels, an elite unit of firemen and women, rush to the rescue. Equipped with the latest technology and an indomitable will...
Firefight is a skirmish-level adventure game, based on the Ion Age background first developed by Alternative Armies to characterize their metal miniatures. It pits the fiercely independent humans of the Free Companies against their mysterious and powerful foe, the Shia Khan. This particular product is designed for science fiction urban combat, although the...
Game description from the publisher: July 21, 1861: In northern Virginia two raw armies prepare to do battle in what each believes will be a short war. Spectators have gathered for the spectacle. Both sides are in for a shock as this will be the first major battle in a war that will last another four years and consume 600,000 lives. Now for the 150th...
The First Interstellar Empires is a game of space exploration, colonization, and conflict. It is set in the first decades of humanity reaching out to the stars. The game board is an accurate map of the space around our own solar system, a cube 25 light years on each side with our Sun at the center. Each player takes the roll of a nation on Earth (or Mars...