BACKGROUND: MOROCCO ABLAZE is semi-historical simulation of the French Colonial Conquest of Northern Africa from 1870-1930. The Game begins shortly after a North African Tribal Leader has stirred up the natives in the whole region and are poised to launch assaults on French Settlements to drive them out of the Country forever. As the Commander of French...
Two Games in One! NINE MAN MORRIS and THE KING & THE KNIGHTS Games of Skill & Strategy Mfg. by OLD TIME GAMES, INC. Also manufacturing KUBB - The Viking Game(tm) -- from the tube THE KING & THE KNIGHTS This old Viking game, discovered in a Danish reenactment village, is played as a competition between two players. The game consists of a King, three...
"Six Men's Morris is played in the same way as Nine Men's Morris, with two changes, the first is that each player has six men and the second is that it is played on [a modified] board (which is similar to that used by Nine Men's Morris, except it lacks the outer set of lines)." Variation: Five Men's Morris is played on the same modified board, but using 5...
This ancient game is probably a direct ancestor of the better known Nine Men's Morris as well as Tic-Tac-Toe. It is played on a board of three rows and three columns. Players have three pieces each and take turns first placing then moving their pieces. The goal is to form a straight or diagonal line of three. There are two forms of the game: In the simple...
This is an abstract game with two boards. The action board is a 2X2 square grid with four actions (Place, Place, Move, Remove) in the spaces. The network board is also a 2x2 square grid but the pieces are placed on the 9 vertices of the grid. Each player has five workers that use to take actions and/or place on the network board. Each turn a player has two...
Twelve Men's Morris is a traditional board game similar to Nine Men's Morris. It was most popular during the Middle Ages when it was played in courts across Europe. It is played on a board with 24 nodes joined by lines; each player has twelve pieces. The game proceeds in three phases: Players alternately place one piece on a node in each move. If a player...
In this cooperative game, players belong to a gang of outlaws that wants to rob a train before it reaches the mountain tunnel. In order to do so, each outlaw must bring three items needed for the robbery. To keep their dastardly plan a secret, however, the gang can only communicate with each other via Morse Code. Each player receives three item cards;...
"Mosby's Raiders: Guerilla Warfare in the Civil War" is an Operational level Solitaire board-wargame that puts you in command of the Partisan Rangers. Your mission is to infiltrate enemy lines to disrupt the Union War effort. As you succeed in your operations, your notoriety grows and the Union devotes additional troops to stopping you. You select the...
FAST simple family&friends point-to-point game about the Germans' last, desperate lunge at Moscow in late 1941 which proved to be (for them) their first strategic defeat on land. Same system as for Barbarossa Fast! but with slightly more detail for the larger scale. German side solitaire and team play (with the 3-piece map) - also playable with 2 player...
From the box: "Guide the spinning 'mosquito' through the hazards to score points. 'Sting' the hunter - TO MAKE HIS HAT FLY OFF." Players manoeuver a spinning plastic top around a 13" x 15" three dimensional moulded plastic board. The board contains six numbered structures which must be negotiated in order. A seventh structure, the face of a moustached 19th...
Instead of providing a broad overview of Feudal Japan, A Most Dangerous Time focuses in on the most dire moment of all: 1570-1584. Oda Nobunaga, one of the most notorious figures in Japanese history, fights against all of Japan and the victor will be the ultimate master of all of Japan. Details: Players: 2 (3-4 player variant) Complexity: medium Playing...