Ancient Rome, IV century A.D.: it is a stormy period in Roman Empire, the quiet of past centuries is only a memory and the struggle for the title of Emperor is increasingly harsh. In the Capital of the Empire, the most important "Gens" do not miss a chance to try to increase their power, to be able to influence the new Augustus as much as possible. Despite...
The tea party has been going on since forever and the place is in a lot of mess by now. The Red Queen has just announced that she is bored and she would attend the tea party shortly. Help your odd friends to clean up the place by collecting and creating sets of cards. At the end of the game the player with the most victory points wins. With a mix of set...
This game was designed by Kim St. Jack and was the only product from Rebel Games, an Australian company, is a simple wargame about the struggle between rival ant colonies. The (rather plain) map shows a number of danger areas (spider webs and the like, although they are all abstracted) and ant trails, with the nests around the edges. Players move worker...
In Ant Swarm, you take on the role of running an ant colony. You will need to acquire Food and Water Pods with your Worker Ants, capture your opponent’s Ants with your Fighter Ants, and, most importantly, protect your Queen Ant from being captured by your opponent’s army. During the game, each player may move either their Worker Ant OR Fighter Ant tiles....
In Antarus 7 you are a prospector competing with other prospectors for a mining contract on an asteroid. Use your Drones to gather minerals and combat your opponents Drones. You can use minerals to build new Drones and upgrade your Drones defense, attack, movement and cargo capacity. Be the first player to gather 10 units of Altonium to win the game.. or...
The players take tuns to move a figure. The area covered by the guns (the light green spaces) may not be entered or jumped over by friend or foe. The two flag spaces can be occupied and jumped over by the figures in the same way as the other spaces on the game board. The figures jump one, two or three spaces straight forward, left or right sideways, left...
Anthromancer is a tabletop game system that features a suite of original neoclassical strategy and chance games, as well as an original oracle. It is primarily organized around a 2-4 player abstract strategy game called 'Mercenarium'. In Mercenarium, players take turns placing and moving cards with various edge values in an attempt to overcome the edge...
Anti-Grid is an abstract strategy game for two players, each trying to eliminate the other’s pieces through capture. The unique thing about the board is that each player plays on his/her own grid - they never follow the same paths to victory or defeat. Capture is made by flanking, or trapping an opponent’s piece between two of your own, and players may set...
Anti-King Chess is a pair of variants played on the standard 8x8 chessboard with the standard pieces, and one more piece per side. The Anti-King is a King that is in check only when not attacked by opposing pieces. The goal of Anti-King Chess is to checkmate either your opponent's King or Anti-King. This game was voted a recognized variant on the...
Antietam 1862 is Volume I in Worthington Publishings new Civil War Brigade Battle Series. Designed to be a series where you can fight a battle in an evening. Antietam 1862 allows gamers to refight the pivotal battle in Maryland that was the bloodiest day in American history. More than 22,000 were killed, wounded, or missing. Outnumbered at over 2 to 1, can...
Antietam: Burnished Rows of Steel is a Tactical level board-wargame of the bloodiest single-day battle in the American Civil War. Game turns are sequential, with each player moving, firing artillery, and then having two rounds of combat, each in turn. Also provided are rules for solitaire play. Victory is determined by victory points earned by the Union...
"Antietam Campaign" is a Grand Tactical hex-and-counter wargame for 2 players. With less than six pages of rules, it is very adept in it role as an introduction to gaming the American Civil War. The developer’s notes indicate that it is a modified installment of the Blue & Gray (SPI) system. The games comes with three scenarios, from nine to thirteen turns...