User summary: This offshore sailing game allows players to recreate various courses of the classic Baltic Sea regatta Round Gotland Race (Swedish: Gotland runt). Four courses are suggested although it's easy enough to set up custom or other historical courses. Yachts race across a square grid according to wind strength and direction which are changed...
Gounki is an abstract strategy game in which pieces can combine and disperse to affect their movement possibilities. Played on an eight-by-eight square grid, the goal is to move one of your own pieces off the opposite end of the board while preventing your opponent from doing the same. The complete rules, as well as the C++ source code for a computerized...
Grab Your Goat! is a board game for 2 to 4 players and takes an average of 30 to 45 minutes to play – your rascally goats depending! Play as one of four goatherds whose prized goat has escaped atop the nearby mountain. The paths are constantly shifting and the mountain full of pitfalls and perils, preventing you from quickly bringing your beloved goat...
Set in Jen Eric High School, Grad Rush is a 2 player strategy board game that pits players to get their students to graduation as fast as possible. Players will play student cards to the board that advance forward every turn. Once your student and an enemy's student land on the same space they will perform a face-off, a rock-paper-scissors battle of...
Duration: the Grand Campaign covers the strategic and production aspects of Der Weltkrieg Series for WWI and completes the Weltkrieg series. July 28, 1914: The peace of Europe is shattered. Rapid fire cannons and machine guns usher in a new and deadlier form of warfare. The major powers had prepared for years, building up massive armies and navies. It was...
Grand Chess is a variant played on a 10x10 board with two additional pieces; the Marshall (which combines the movement powers of the rook and knight, it's also called Chancellor) and the Cardinal (which combines the movement powers of the bishop and knight, it's also called Archbishop). The setup has most of the pieces moved forward one rank from their...
The German invasion of France and Belgium in 1914, the opening campaign of World War One, is one of the most dramatic in history: the famed German Schlieffen Plan, the infamous French Plan 17, the turn of the tide that was "the Miracle of the Marne," the series of outflanking moves in the" Race to the Sea," the death of the "old Contemptibles" of the BEF...
From the Kickstarter page: "Every three years, in the prosperous city of Matilda, an event is held in which the lord of the city will choose the finest and bravest warriors to join the ranks of the Matilda Defenders. This battle tournament tests the team's tactics and strategies to convince the lord and to show the citizens which team is worthy to be part...
Grandmaster is a two-player chess-adjacent game. It uses a modular board composed of 64 square tiles that are used to create an 8x8 board. Each player has 16 pieces. 8 pawns and 8 Grandmasters, which are valued 1-8. The Grandmasters move based on the tiles on which they start the turn. Their value is only used to determine win conditions. Otherwise the...
From the back of the box... Early in 1862, a little known General named U.S. Grant overran West Tennessee, taking two river forts and the largest bag of prisoners captured up to that time by an American army. But as the Union troops advanced on Corinth, the Confederates hit back, staking everything on a furious battle in the woods around Shiloh Church....
(from the back of the box:) Grant Takes Command simulates all the action of this pivotal campaign. This seventh volume in the Great Campaigns of the American Civil War series recreates the marches, assaults, and defensive stratagems of these months using the series' interactive game system. As a player, you control either the Union or Confederate forces...