One player has to defend the citadel with 16 black pawns against four allied enemy armies of seven red, blue, yellow and green pawns each. The pawns may move one space or capture (in any direction) an enemy pawn by jumping over it. The defender may not move into the citadel, unless it is under threat by an attacker. The attackers move only forward or...
Vietnam, March 1965. The new bombing offensive "Rolling Thunder" cannot cut the Ho Chi Minh supply route. The U.S. High Command sets up a commando operation for destroying a bridge in a vital point of the supply route. 14 men will try to cross a trap-infested jungle, destroy the bridge and, what's more difficult, return alive...As soon as the commandos are...
English: Vietnam is a collector NAC-based Tactical level board-wargame, set in this bloody conflict. It recreates the battles and challenges that came under american detachments. The huge amount of tokens shows the different units and weaponry used: Viet Cong, Green Beret, heliborne troops, infantry, mortars, anti-aircraft, missile launchers, Chinook...
This simulation game re-creates one of the longest, most complex, and least understood conflicts in US history in all of its military and political aspects. The rules include detailed treatment of movement, terrain, search and destroy operations, special operations, firepower, air mobility, riverines, brigade-level formations, limited intelligence and...
"Vietnam: Rumor of War" is the second wargame of the Operational Scale System series. This game covers the American involvement in the Vietnamese War of 1965-1972. In 1965, the United States decided to intervene in the ongoing conflict in Vietnam. This moment shaped the United States more than any other in the 20th Century. From the battlefield to the home...
The Men of Company B (MCB) covers search and destroy actions in Vietnam at platoon level. The figure scale is 1:1. Each player controls about 50 figures. There is also the ability to include vehicles. The US or allied player searches and the communist player attempts to stop him. MCB uses a terrain map made from grid squares so no measuring is needed...
Viking: Tactical Warfare in the Dark Ages, 700-1300 One of five games in a series by SPI called PRESTAGS (the others were CHARIOT, SPARTAN, LEGION and YEOMAN). Tactical level game. Each game shares a set of the same common rules. Each game also has a set of exclusive rules that highlight features of warfare during the period that game covers. 400 counters...
The game is about attacking the settlements of other vikings, sink their viking ships and plunder their gold. To win, one must collect 2 golden treasures on one's own settlement or sink all competing viking ships. [translation of box cover blurb] Each turn, a player rolls two dice and moves either one of initially 7 ships a number of squares equal to the...
A chess variant designed in 1967 by an Icelandic carpenter. Played on a grid of 85 hexagonal spaces, in 9 rows, the spaces being in three colours. There are 18 white and 18 black pieces which are the same as in traditional chess with one new type, the viking, which starts between the king and the queen. The pieces move in the same way as in traditional...
The game is played on a slanted grid using three pieces to a player, representing viking longships; the goal is to cross the playing field to your opponent's starting spaces the fastest. Each turn a die is rolled, with an odd result usually resulting in moving one ship one space, and an even result meaning a lost turn. Opposing ships block but do not...