The Battle of Tours, A.D. is a Tactical level wargame covering the battle that took place between Tours and Poitiers in present-day France between the army of Charles, Mayor of the Palace for the Merovingian Franks, and that of Abd ar-Rahman’s Umayyad Muslims of Iberian Andalusia. The Battle of Tours is a fast-playing game of low complexity. To that end...
Grand tactical Napoleonic game of Wellington's 1813 Offensive. (from the back of the box:) Battle of Vittoria features the combination of innovative command control rules and detailed formational rules with an effective morale and organiazation system to produce the tactical detail of a maxi game in a playable format. 22" x 25" three color map, 240...
The Battle of Waterberg (Ohamakari) is a low to moderate complexity tactical level board-wargame set during the German Herero War of 1905. It covers the German attack against the Hereros in German-occupied Southwest Africa. August 11, 1904. The Herero forces have gathered near the Waterberg Mountains, far away from the German supply trains. The thick thorn...
Battles of the American Revolution Series: Volume 10. Most authors relegate the Battle of White Plains to a short paragraph when recounting the New York Campaign of 1776. As the last field battle of that campaign, however, it deserves closer study. Volume 10 in GMT’s award-winning Battles of the American Revolution series by designer Mark Miklos provides...
Battle Over Britain: Battle of Britain at operational level. Basic game and advanced game. Turns equal 1 day. German player plan raids for the day and the Brits respond as the raids are detected. Interception and air to air combat takes place. This is followed by bombing damage to targets. Rules include target priority according to success of earlier...
Charlie Murray Grant is the third generation, son of Charles Stewart, and he too has inherited a passion for the wargame hobby. Charlie, with his own 20mm World War Two armies, has developed his late grandfather's rules, added to them and provided a play sheet and instructions for refighting one of the original scenarios. In addition Charlie has added six...
“Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan.”—Tacitus, Agricola 98 AD. When newly-elected President Kennedy was inaugurated the CIA’s plans and Cuban exile army were ready to invade Castor's Cuba. However, the new president wanted “plausible deniability” and the CIA invasion plans were extensively modified, with all of the Cuban exile aircraft...
A very introductory level wargame, kind of a "Stratego meets Tactics II." The object is to eliminate the opponent's HQ unit. Different eras are represented by changing the values and abilities of each unit. The counters are labeled with standard NATO insignia. Depending on which era is being played, there will be different numbers and types of the counters...
Straightforward tactical game of the battle involving AJAX, EXETER, ACHILLIES and THE GRAF SPEE off the River Plate early in WW2. An independent small-press publication with heavy cardstock components and poor diecutting - but diecut units nevertheless! There is one small strategic map in the game, and several tactical maps (one for each ship involved)....