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...
A self-published, SPI quality (circa 1974), wargame of the American Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, 20 Sept., 1863. A legal-sized white envelope with a b&w sketch of the battle containing: 2 8 1/2" x 11" typewritten pages of rules (SPI ACW Quad complexity) 1 page of Order of Battle and Set-up 1 page with Combat Results Table and Terrain Effects Chart...
On January 17, 1781, Banastre Tareltons' [sic] Brigade of Light Infantry broke cover shortly after dawn, and faced a low hill sloping to a crest about 1/2 a mile away. A few hundred yards away were the American Rangers, the three light infantry companies that formed the pickets of the American position. Behind them, about half way up the slop stood 300...
This is a classic English Civil War battle with the Parliamentarians trying to seize an opportunity by catching the Royalist army on the march towards Oxford. Led by the King the Royalist army responded quickly with the ensuing battle playing out over a large area, in three phases and with a similar amount of Horse and Foot. Presented as a “mini-campaign”...
Dunstop Castle is of course that fortress at the northwest portion of your Dragon Pass map in the Lunar Empire next to Jaldon's Wrong River at the end of the road from Goldedge. In a major offensive by the Sartar, Dunstop had to be taken within three days. Did they succeed? We're not sure, the history is vague on this point. What we have done is set up the...
This is a self contained miniatures battle game based on the Battle of the Five Armies in J.R.R Tolkien's book "The Hobbit". It uses 10mm miniature figure blocks for each of the forces present. The game system is based on Warmaster also by Games Workshop. The game comes with all the unpainted plastic miniatures and terrain, an unpainted plastic modular...
For twenty years, the "Battles from the Age of Reason" (BAR) game series has been the ultimate gaming expression of mid-eighteenth century warfare. The BAR games feature a highly detailed, realistic and interactive game system, gorgeous map and counter graphics, thorough research and exciting battles throughout Europe and America. However, because of rules...
Battle of France is a board game for two players. There are three levels. In the first level are single engine fighters. In the second level are added twin engine fighters. In the third level participate bombers. The main characteristic is that the game board is covered with a net of equilateral triangles. The vertices of these triangles are points at...
The game represents one air battle from the time of the Battle of France, May 1940. Planes M.S.406, D.520, B.152, VG-33, P36 and Hurricane fight against Messerschmitt Bf-109. The main characteristic is that the game board is covered with a net of equilateral triangles. The vertices of these triangles are points at which players hold the position and move...