The game theme refers to a tale by La Fontaine: The grasshopper and the ant. Each player starts with his ant tile in one corner of the board designed as a 9 by 9 grid. On your turn, place one tile of your hand on the board to extend your route and advance your ant on it. Alternatively, with a grasshopper tile, you can block the route of an opponent. By...
In a quiet village on a remote island, everything is about to change. This year the coconut trees have not produced enough for all the island's inhabitants, and their most precious commodity, coconuts, are beginning to become scarce, causing panic and a real disaster... The fight to get the few remaining coconuts has begun, and a frantic race to fill the...
La Garde Avance! (The Guard Advances!) is an original module for the Jours de Gloire series, set at battalion scale, inserted ine VaeVictis magazine #161. It covers the last attack of the French army during the Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon’s last reserve, six battalions of the Middle Guard and five battalions of the Old Guard, set off in square formation...
La Garde veille! (The Guard is on watch!) is an original module for the Jours de Gloire series, set at battalion scale, inserted in VaeVictis magazine #178. It covers Guard’s actions during the Battle of Eylau. The first scenario cover 1st Battalion of Grenadiers à pied regiment against a Russian column approaching Eylau’s cimetary and village. The second...
La Grande Guerre 14-18 (The Great War 14-18) The English rule set was released in 2002. La Grande Guerre is a strategic simulation of World War 1. Two maps cover all of Europe. Off map boxes represent Asia / Africa. Game year is broken down into 9 turns. Production takes place on the interphase every 3 turns. Either side may move first on a given turn. Two...
"Great game of strategy and meditation" (Front box short description, translated from italian) "In a distant galaxy, outside our solar system, there is a merciless war for the conquest of power. Robots, commanded by their scientists, waging a terrible unrelenting struggle, whose sole purpose is to win. Their magnetic radiation makes them terrible fighters....
Wargame that represents the Iran-Iraq War. Components: two 65x45cms. boards, 16 pages rules book, two six-sided dice and 210 counters and markers. The boards represents: Persian Gulf and countries, and the Iran-Iraq border line. The game has several levels of difficulty: basic 1 (ground scenario), advanced 1 (airground), basic 2 (aircraft) and advanced 2...
This hidden set-up war game is an unusual WWII adaptation of the classic L'Attaque. What makes it most unusual is that the rules are dated 11/44, which means it must have been one of the first French games published after the liberation. This is a more complex game than L'Attaque or its successor Stratego. Its name translates as "The Lightning War" (or...
From 1907 to 1927 Spain fought in Morocco a long war, full of ups and downs, brilliant victories and crashing defeats that touched the Spanish society. In 1909, after the disaster at the Ravine of the Wolf, the war became headline news at the same time as the "Tragic Week" in Barcelona. The Franco-Spanish treaty of 1912 gave Spain the zone of the...