Blasted is a retro space combat and exploration game for 2 to 4 players. The Mechanisms of a long-dead civilization, The Ascendants, are again activating and imprisoning all of the Galactic Outposts in the sector. The Ascendant Key is needed to deactivate these mechanisms; but it has been separated in to 4 pieces, called the Prime Relics, and scattered...
Step inside a classic video arcade side-scrolling space shooter. Earth is once again at the mercy of on-coming waves of alien attack ships. Luckily, you have the one vessel that can defend the earth from the onslaught. Equipped with your all-important blaster, destroy wave after wave of alien ships and defeat the "Boss" at the end of each level, until the...
Play WWII battles from Company to Brigade size. Finish a game in 2-4 hours. Keep everyone involved with simultaneous turns. Infantry are based as a single stand, representing 8-12 soldiers or two squads. Use your FoW armies. Each armoured vehicle model represents 2-4 real vehicles. Ground scale: 1mm equals roughly 1.5 metres. Time scale: Each game turn...
Flying Officer Stumpy Prangsworthy’s handlebar moustache streamed behind him in the 280mph wind as he craned his head round trying to locate where Von Strudels Focke Wulf 190 A8 had gone to. Deep within the cloud, the spineless Boche had shown his true colours and escaped Stumpys righteous justice. The growling Merlin engine sang a new song as he...
Bleeding Kansas is a two-player game portraying the politics and violence in pre-statehood Kansas. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 gave new territories the right to “popular sovereignty,” allowing residents to choose whether or not to allow slavery. Within months the stream of settlers to Kansas was swelled by parties of sponsored abolitionists and...
The "Blenheim 2004" rules were written specifically for playing large to very large battles of the war of the Spanish succession such as Friedlingen, Speyerbach, 1st Hochstedt, Schellenberg, Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde and Malplaquet down to the battalion and squadron level - these being the smallest tactical element. They are designed for multiplayer...
Against the Odds #59 Blind Faith: The Hussite Wars 1419-1434 In A.D. 1415, at the Council of Constance, Jan Hus and Jerome of Prague, two church reformers from Bohemia, were burnt at the stake for heresy. In the years that followed, outrage over the execution convulsed civil society in Bohemia, a fief of the Holy Roman Empire. Now, with Bohemia in...
The Russian Campaign, 1941-45 After spectacular success in the West, Germany and its Axis partners turned East in June 1941 and launched the greatest land invasion in history against the Soviet Union. The goal of Operation Barbarossa was to decisively defeat the Soviet Union in a short lightning campaign before the onset of winter. During the early stages...