(from Decision Games' website:) Throughout the mid-5th century AD, Attila's Huns terrorized Europe. The skill of the Hun horsemen, particularly their accuracy with the composite bow while mounted, made them a veritable shock army. They continued to bring victory after victory to Attila, making him the master of Central Europe. After years of conquest...
A two player card game with a chess theme. One player plays Black, the other plays White. Each player has an identical custom deck of 52 cards, composed of Noble cards and Aid cards. The object of the game is to capture your opponent’s King. The game consists of a series of challenges, where the player’s simultaneously choose one Noble card from their...
Let the Tournament begin! You and an opposing commander shall face off in a battle of wits for the prestigious title of Royal Commander! In Champions!, two players will take turns upgrading and commanding legions of warriors to defeat their opponent in battle. The game is played on an imagined 6 row by 3 column board, with either player picking one of the...
Beneath the roots, way, way down through the layers of what was, past the golden stove, and even deeper than darkness…the sky opens back up. At the core of everything, in the belly of the soul, you’ll find Hara. Look to it when you are tired, scared, or hungry. Call out, and it will find you. Champions of Hara is an adventure board game in which 1-4...
Shadows have fallen over Hara; the bastion of beauty and free expression has become warped by powers of its own design. With so many strong-willed souls all creating in one space, it was only a matter of time before the edges started to crack. Now the evil serpent, Doubt, is spreading, corrupting paradise from within. Dark Rifts are emerging to poison the...
This is a promo card for Champions of Hara. The card is a new item card that you add to the item deck. Specially, "Bloodstone" counts as a new dreamstone (a level 0 item card). It a discard type item, with the following effect: "Pay up to 5 Health; look at that many cards from the top of any World deck. Choose one and spawn it on your space. Shuffle the...
This new edition takes us from the death of Alexander in 323 BC and the war of his successors — the Diadochi — which will last fifty years, to the last battles in Italy and Spain of the Second Punic War in 206 before BC, via the expedition of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus in Italy between 280 and 275 BC. Two great systems of weapons clash then, the Macedonian...
Champs de Bataille III: D'Alexandre à Hannibal has been published in Vae Victis issue 30. This Tactical level board-wargame is the third installment in the "Champs de Bataille" series of games, board-wargame versions of the De Bellis Multitudinis (DBM) miniatures rules. This issue includes counters and army lists for Alexandrian Macedonians, Imperial...
Chancellorsville 1863 is a card-driven game on the American Civil War Battle of Chancellorsville. Playable by 1 to 2 players in 1 hour, the game comes with a card-driven solitaire engine. Designed by Maurice Suckling (designer of Freeman's Farm 1777), the game uses many of the concepts from that game. However, added hidden movement, much more maneuver, and...
Chancellorsville was the third "Tournament" wargame from The Avalon Hill Game Co. It marked the introduction of hex based maps to the hobby (contemporaneously with D-Day and Gettysburg) It also marked an unfortunate experiment in early wargame map graphics -- instead of using illustrations to depict terrain features, the hexes were simply filled with a...
The Army of the Potomac had found confidence in their new leader "Fighting" Joe Hooker following the disastrous battle of Fredericksberg. Hooker began forging the AOP into the weapon he and Lincoln knew was needed to defeat the Army of Northern Virginia led by Robert E. Lee. Using his cavalry aggressively in conjunction with the newly formed military...