Alésia, 52 Av. J.-C.: César contre Vercingétorix (Alesia, 52 BC: Caesar against Vercingetorix) covers the battle of Alesia, Caesar's siege of the Gauls in 52 BC. This Tactical level board-wargame can be played by two players (Romans and Gauls) or by three, where the third player represents the Gallic relief force. Turns represent ninety minutes of daylight...
A strategy board game of thinking and drinking. This game plays on an old world tavern theme where you try to capture an opponents glass of ale using a set of stone game pieces. The players can utilize augments such as the sword, shield, horse, and war ram in order to gain an advantage. On your turn you may move any two stones up to a number of spaces...
Macedonians vs. Persians in the climactic battle at Gaugamela. Alexander The Great is a medium complexity wargame recreating an ancient battle on the plain of Gaugamela in 331 B.C. Players take on the roles of Alexander the Great and King Darius III as the Macedonian army clashes with the Persian Host. Movement is hex based. Unit types include basic...
Ramses II is a variant based on Avalon Hill's tactical battle game Alexander the Great. The mapboard, with a few modifications, and the game system are used in the variant. The vast majority of the rules for Alexander the Great are employed; those modified or not utilized are noted below. New game counters, which represent the Hittite and Egyptian forces...
"Alexandre contre la Perse" is a tactical level board wargame which presents the first three battles in the "Au Fil de l'Épée" Antiquity series. They bring onto the stage the greatest conqueror of Antiquity in the course of the mighty confrontations which enabled him to bring Persia to its knees. GRANICUS - In 334 BC, after crushing a revolt by the city of...
This volume presents the rules of one of the first real wargames developed in Italy. At first it was played at the A.R.G.O. (Roman Association of Operative Games) and then, in the '70s, it was slowly presented, piece by piece, on the defense magazine Esercito e Armi - Interconair. At last it was published as a book by the Italian editor Mursia that had a...
Alfred in this period commenced both the re-structuring of his Army and his Burh building program in earnest. In 885 a Viking army that had been active in Frankia sailed and attacked Rochester, a pivotal Town/Burh with its confluence of roads and river running thru it. The Vikings of East Anglia, under Alfred’s longtime nemesis Guthrum, now saw an...
Alice Chess is one of the more popular chess variants. David Pritchard's Encyclopedia of Chess Variants recommends it as one of the best chess variants. It was created by V. R. Parton, who described his variant in his 23-page booklet "Chessery for Duffer and Master" (1953). The standard game of Alice Chess is played using two boards, A and B. All pieces...
This is a children's race game that casts players in the roles of characters from Lewis Carroll's popular novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." Alice, the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, and/or the Queen of Hearts each follow their own single-color 80-space path to the finish, similar in nature to "Peter Rabbit's Race Game" (1917). Although the game is...
The game was conceived by Aldo Spinelli in 1989 and develops on a chessboard of 4 squares per side. Each player has a traditional six-sided die, which is moved from one square to another in an orthogonal direction, rotating on an edge of his choice as many times as the value expressed by the top face. The dice can change direction after each rotation and...
Following the White Rabbit, Alice entered the Queen’s palace. Some problems happened between them, and Alice is now being chased by the Queen. Alice must find the White Rabbit among the Trump Soldiers, to escape from the palace. The White Rabbit might know where to go. Alice who wants to catch the White Rabbit and the Queen who wants to catch Alice… The...