A game based on the Warhammer 40K universe. It is played with miniature figures, each representing one combatant, on an 8x8 grid (a chess or checkers board may be used). The object is to destroy all opposing units. The players purchase their units from force lists which describe the units of the Space Marines and the Tyranid/Genestealer Brood. Units are...
40th Panzer Korps is a company/battalion level simulation of the battles in the vicinity of the old Napoleonic battle ground of Borodino just west of Mozhaysk. The players control the 40th Panzer Korps and elements of the Soviet’s 5th Army. The game uses the 48th Panzer Korps system, which emphasizes the special abilities of the various arms, armour...
48th PanzerKorps: Battles on the River Chir, is a battalion/regiment-level simulation of the battles on the Chir River, December 7-12, 1942. Players control the Soviet 5th Tank Army and the German 48th Panzer Korps. The game emphasizes the special abilities of armor, infantry, and weapons units. The German player must use his small number of powerful...
Four-Player Chess (Four-handed chess, Chess-4, and 4-Chess) is often credited to Capt Charles Verney, who was the first known to have documented the game in England in 1881. Four-player versions of chess probably have existed for hundreds of years prior to Verney in one form or another. Verney's four-player board consists of three rows added to each side...
A cooperative game where players must explore Mars to find the missing pieces of a martian greenhouse and fix it before all food supplies (potatoes) finish. The board is a random matrix of hidden cards that the players have to explore moving individually. Some places hide resources that should be exchanged and combined to create the parts of of greenhouse...
4th Dimension is a very spacey-looking game with a small circular board divided into sectors each track of which has twice as many spaces as the one closer to the center. Each player get 6 warriors, 3 rangers, 2 guardians, and one time lord. Guardians can capture warriors and rangers; rangers can capture warriors; the time lord can capture rangers and...
"4th Reich: Puremen vs. the Mutants for Control of the World" is a somewhat obscure wargame by Task Force Games based on (albeit without attribution) the SF-novel "The Iron Dream" by the Jewish author Norman Spinrad. This very controversial novel describes a parallel world in which Hitler wasn't successful with his "Kampf" in Germany and became a...
A game for every week is found in this game compilation. Even though the title indicates that there are 52 games, the box contains 56 games from Bunny Hop to Easter Egg Roll for the youngest in the family, from Baseball to Steeplechase for those who are sports minded and from Shanghai Chinese Checkers to Pa-Chiz-Si for those who want to challenge multiple...
One of the keys to the decision to re-issue 48th Panzer Korps: Battles on the River Chir - Battles on The River Chir, is that Designer James Zoldak has gone forward with the companion wargame, 57th PANZER KORPS The Strong Right Hook, that deals with the struggles at Kotelnikovo and between the Rivers Aksay and Mishkova. The German thrust had to breach the...
5 Stack is an exciting chip stacking game with the perfect mixture of strategy and chance. 5 Stack is simple enough that a 5-year-old can play it and interesting enough to captivate the seasoned board game veteran. Proudly made in the USA, components include a game board, coloured wooden chips, dice, scoring pad, and instructions. Designed by Jackson...
5th Fleet is the fourth game in Victory Games (I) popular Fleet Series (including 2nd Fleet: Modern Naval Combat in the North Atlantic, 3rd Fleet: Modern Naval Combat in the North Pacific, Caribbean, and Atlantic Oceans, Sixth Fleet: Modern Naval Combat in the Mediterranean and 7th Fleet: Modern Naval Combat in the Far East). It examines the strengths and...