On November 6th, 1861, rebels in Columbus, Kentucky, celebrated the election of President Jefferson Davis. That same day, General Ulysses S. Grant moved against General Polk on the opposite side of the Mississippi. This was to be Grant's first aggressive action of the war. Grant landed 3,000 men, supported by artillery and cavalry two miles southeast of...
(from Legion Wargames website) The Battle of Blenheim is a tactical level two player game covering one of the pivotal battles during the War of Spanish Succession. One player takes the role of Marlborough, commanding the British and Allied forces, and the other of Tallard, leading the Franco-Bavarians. At Blenheim Marlborough found himself confronting a...
The Battle of Blore Heath was the first major battle of the Wars of the Roses on September 23, 1459. Men from the four corners of England struggled, fought and died in a bloody clash which lasted for the whole day as the forces of the houses of Lancaster and York met in battle. Play as the Earl of Salisbury, Commander in Chief of the Yorkist Army or Lord...
The Battle of Brandywine is a two player Tactical level wargame about the American Revolutionary War battle, designed to be a low complexity game but also offers enough optional rules to give the game more complexity for the die-hard wargamer. The game sets up quickly with both sides commanding roughly 30 units each and several leaders per side, you can...
Genuinely Britain's finest hour, help defend the south coast of England as swarms of German bombers cross the Channel and target our defenses. A large board has a hex grid, basically showing the French coast and the Home counties, divided into a sector for each player, with airfields and AC-AC, and a spinner to direct the Luftwaffe randomly. The player...
Hitler's war machine has rolled like a juggernaut across the Continent, crushing all opposition. Only Britain still stands, isolated and defiant, readying itself for a mortal struggle between the Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force. For the first time in history, air power will decide the fate of a nation. August 1940: The Royal Air Force has been awaiting...
This is a battle that has fascinated players over the years and this game is a real challenge for them. It shows the bravery and doggedness of the British against the abilities of the fledgling Americans Rebels. In their leaders, Howe must attempt to overwhelm the enemy, while Prescott had to organise a defence against them out of nothing. To achieve this...
Wargame with some abstract elements. The games simulates a battle between armies consisting only of infantry and cavalry. The game mechanics simulate the tactical characteristics of the Punic Wars, but it's possible to extend them to any battle where the role of artillery is null or negligible (as for instances many medieval battles). It's possible to play...
“Fought near Chaeronea, in Boeotia, this was the greatest victory of Philip II of Macedon. There, Philip (with 32,000 men) defeated the smaller combined forces of Athens and Thebes, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece. The battle itself pitted the classical phalanx of the Athenian and Theban confederates and the Macedonian phalanx of Philip.” A...
The Battle of Changsha is a two-player, operational level game of the second (September to October 1941) battle for Changsha, China, capital of the Hunan Province. The second battle in 1941, resulted in the city being captured by the Japanese, and then being recaptured by the Chinese 9th Army Group commanded by Gen. Xue Yue. The third battle was originally...