Erin is a skirmish-level, miniatures wargame based on the "Invasion Cycle" of Celtic Ireland. It is designed to be used with Alternative Armies' range of miniatures. All of these are intended to portray the feel of accurate Celtic Mythology. Ancient magics, old gods and monsters from the mists of time are common in the land Of Erin as well as mere men and...
Each player tries to erode their mountain and generate the most amount of sediment in their delta. Players erode their mountains with the processes they successfully bid on and acquire. The sediment supplied to the delta becomes the coinage used in the bidding process. Mountains uplift 1,500 meters per turn until one player reaches 8,000 meters, or until...
Escalado was a popular English table horse racing game from the late 1920's. Up to six "jockeys" each have a metal horse, (plastic in the recent update), and one player acts as the bookie. Players then place wagers on the five colored mechanical horses, which race across a vibrating course. The player with the most money after the agreed upon number of...
Escape From Colditz is a 1-vs-many semi-cooperative game where one player is the Security Officer of the German forces, and the others are Escape Officers for various nationalities or prisoners of war (POWs). Escape Officers try to acquire the equipment they need for a successful escape (rope, wire cutters, etc.), while the Security Officer tries to hinder...
In May 1942, 18 American crewmen scuttle their US Navy minesweeper ship based in the Philippines to prevent it from falling into the hands of the invading Japanese forces. Using a 36-foot US Navy motor launch, the 18 sailors, led by Lieutenant Commander John Morrill (player), begin their 2,000-mile journey through Japanese-infested waters in an attempt to...
The second (and last) of Fractal Dimensions' line of "Gamelets" - comic-book sized games inspired by the microgames of the 1980s. Escape From Dinosaur Island! involves U.S. Marines in the South Pacific, circa 1944, who find themselves on an island filled with prehistoric beasts. The game uses two mapsheets. One is a hex-grid encounter map showing an...
Start with an impenetrable prison swarming with Nastian warriors… stir in a captured princess, heir to the Laylian Empire and all its riches… add a dash of insane alien monsters who want to blow the place to smithereens… and all it takes is the craziest security detail in the Solar Hanseatic League to bring it all to a rolling boil! The result is a recipe...
Start as the zombie or as one of 9 unique characters whose survival depends on finding and transporting food, water and gas items to either the marina or airport in order to escape the doomed island town. Resource items slow your movement down (minus from die roll), while other items, such as weapons, medi-kit and the abandoned jeep, can come in handy....
Escape from Zyzzlvaria is a board game whose existence was first announced at the 2002 MIT Mystery Hunt in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and then debuted seven years later at ZyzzlCon during the 2009 MIT Mystery Hunt. Only 75 production copies were printed. The game features a board, 12 polyhedral dice, a deck of 16 cards, 8 pawns, 8 escape pods, 370 dollar...