Barren Victory - The Battle of Chickamauga September 19th & 20th, 1863, examines the events of September 19th and 20th, 1863—The Battle of Chickamauga. This action was one of the few in the Civil War where the South actually outnumbered the Federals. The battle was closely fought and the game recaptures the spirit of the struggle for victory. After the...
Viewed as an easy capture by Napoleon on the morning of Waterloo, the stout defense of Château d'Hougoumont ended up diverting and absorbing an entire French corps of troops! The prolonged action throughout the day completely derailed Napoleon's plans to quickly shatter the Anglo-Allied forces before the Prussians arrived. The gate is barred; can you break...
"Few fictional worlds have created the interest that has grown from the Mars of Edgar Rice Burroughs. As a world of constant warfare and adventure, it is naturally of special interest to the wargamer. In this area we are quite fortunate in the amount of information on military organization provided by Burroughs . . . The basic scale is decimal in nature....
Baseball - a Parker Brothers game - has some unusual components for its age. (There are three copyright dates; 1949 on the cards, 1950 on the rules and 1959 on the box.) There is a 3D score board plus a simple mechanism to compare the batter and pitcher's play choices. The results vary according to the plays and the rules cover Strikes, Walks, Outs, Runs...
Players flip cards and try to score as many runs as they can before totaling three outs. Basic baseball rules are followed. The player with the most runs after 9 innings wins. The cards include (total=38; 36 + 2 instruction cards): Ball (10) Strike (10) Foul Ball (2) Foul Out (1) Fly Out (2) Out (double play at second) (1) Out (double play at first) (1)...
The game is designed to teach baseball to people of all ages, allowing them to make decisions similar to those made in an actual game. To quote the introduction, "This is the only game approved by the Little League for Little Leaguers... It can be played with easy rules for beginners, so that dad can have fun teaching his boy the fundamentals of Baseball....
Description from the publisher: Baseball Card Battle is a dice based, statistics driven board game that uses a person's own baseball card collection to play a realistic game of baseball! Some game modes are simply ... let's see who rolls best - while other game modes take into account the deep statistics of each player! Create your own fantasy team with...
It all started in 2024, when Garrett Weaver (then just seven) asked a simple question: “How can I actually play with my baseball cards?” When no games existed, he and his younger brother Simon invented a set of rules at their dining-room table, which today after play-testing with their friends, schoolmates, and baseball teammates has become Baseball Card...
From the box: The Baseball Game is a computer generated, mathematically pure game that enables you to replay Big League baseball games by transferring the performance records of Big League players from the playing field to playing cards. Each Pitcher's card is divided into strikes, balls or spaces where the Batter hits the ball. Each Batter's card is...
Baseball Heroes is a two player baseball card game, designed by Luke Morris, that captures the psychological battle between pitcher and batter. Three teams with 36 unique players line up to hit eachother out of the park! The pitching player and batting player try to psych-out eachother into striking out or throwing a bad pitch to be hammered away for a...
From the Rulebook: BASEBALL MANIA... the boardgame represents an easily understandable and excellent analogy to the real game of baseball - without the injuries. A game is divided into nine innings. Each team is allowed a turn at bat per inning until three outs are recorded. With the third out a team's 'at bat' ends. The 'Visiting' team is up first each...