The Epsilon Cetus system, containing an M8 red dwarf and a G0 yellow star, was originally colonized by two independent relocations missions . . . The first to arrive, and thus to claim the better G0 system, were those of Islamic origin . . . The second mission, of Chinese origin, arrived some 50 years later, in a crippled colony ship . . . they found [the...
Down Styphon! Is a miniatures game simulating Musket and Pike warfare. The setting of the game is based on one of the stories in the Paratime series by H.Beam Piper. The main character Lord Kalvin, who is a Penn. State Trooper that ends up on a parallel earth where the 'secret' of gunpowder is controlled by a group of Priests who's influence and gunpowder...
Extremely rare Wee Warriors game where players are dragon-mounted warriors engaged in dragon-to-dragon combat. Map is highly unusual in that it uses squares instead of hexes and has a 2 and 1/2 D map of the terrain the dragonlords "fly" over as they fight. Game design and all art is by Morno (Bradley Schenck). Reasonably complex for the time as players...
Two wizard/emperors vie for control of the major peninsular of Anador. The players have 5 types of magic to chose from with spell levels, fantastic troop types, sieges, taxes and a combat system derived from another game (Lords and Wizards). The game contains a full color map (22" x 28") 600 die cut counters, rulebook, a separate CRT and a number of other...
(FROM DESCRIPTION ON BACK OF BOX) ... In Dragonslayer, you are a magician embarked on a quest to destroy Vermithrx Pejorative, the last dragon. Before you confront the dread beast, you must travel throughout the island kingdom of Urland in search of companions, magical items, spells, and weapons. Your journey will be eased or hindered by events that occur...
In Dreaded Flags, players refight historical naval conflicts between small fleets in the Age of Piracy. Players take command of one or more ships in engagements between privateers, pirates and/or pirate hunters. This book contains everything you need to play the game: the rules, 8 scenarios, maps, charts, ship’s log pages and all necessary counters. You...
Dreams of Empire: The Wars of South India 1730s-1740s is a Two-player Operational-level board-wargame set in South India during Europe's Age of Reason. This is not a 'colonial' game. It focuses on the wars of the native states during the 1730s and 1740s AD, such as the Travancore-Dutch War (which Travancore won), the Canarese invasion of Northern Malabar...
"Drive on Damascus" recreates the one major campaign between the Allies and Vichy France during World War II. It is an operational wargame recreating on the battalion level the Allied invasion of Syria and Lebanon in June 1941. This game has been built around two basic situations: the historical invasion and a hypothetical one, covering the chance of...
(from the rulebook :) This design is actually the third edition of the "Kursk" game originally published by old-SPI back in the early 1970s, which was later redesigned into a second edition, retitled as: Eric Goldberg's Kursk: History's Greatest Tank Battle, July 1943. The first edition of the game used the proto-system originally devised by James F....
This is a small wargame published in Mr. Dunnigan's The Complete Wargames Handbook, starting with the first edition in 1980. Twelve pages of rules, one page of tables, one 5.5" x 8" map, 20 counters. Scale is 4 km per hex, one day per turn, and regiment-sized units. The rules are at http://www.hyw.com/Books/WargamesHandbook/4-3-metz.htm as part of The...
Drive on Stalingrad: Road to Ruin: The German 1942 Summer Offensive, is a divisional level simulation of the German drive across the Don River towards Stalingrad and the Caucasus in the summer and fall of 1942. In the summer of '42, the wide-open steppeland was ripe for the blitzkrieg tactics of the German High Command. And with its vast Caspian oil...
Druid: Boudicca's Rebellion, 61 A.D. is an Operational level two-player board-wargame recreating the revolt of the Ancient Britons against their Roman overlords. In 61 A.D., Boudicca raised the standard of revolt against Britain's Roman masters when they laid claim to her Kingdom upon the death of her husband. Joined by the Druids of the Welsh isle of...