This second game in the Shields & Swords Ancients series recreates ten battles spanning nearly three hundred years of Roman history. As was the case with the first game, With It Or On It (2019), The Grass Crown is a fresh, innovative taken on familiar material. The primary unit of maneuver is a "Wing" which itself consists of ten or so individual counters....
World War Africa: The Congo 1998-2001 is a wargame simulation of the 2nd war fought over the Congo by two coalitions of African countries during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The consequences of these two wars are still felt today. In the war of 1996-97, the corrupt regime of Joseph Mobutu was overthrown by a coalition of East African countries...
Play as either The Warden or as one of five playable Gang Leaders. Gang Leaders must plot intricate escape plans and procure escape equipment from across the prison to help navigate one of their many loyal Inmates to Freedom before Turn 29, whilst simultaneously competing with backstabbing rival Gang Leaders, and a perverse Warden. The game plays between...
This book for teachers and home schoolers includes a variety of American history games, featuring a double-sided color poster for the board game Courageous Colony: A Colonial Survival Game (about colonial Jamestown). Other games include Muckracker: A Progressive Era board game, Hear Ye! Hear Ye A Revolutionary War News Game, Famous Quotation Bingo, State...
The Great Battles of Alexander contains four of the Macedonian conqueror's most famous and decisive battles, all chosen to highlight the developement of the Macedonian Art of War. The battles covered are: Chaeronea – August 338 BC Granicus – May 334 BC Issus – November 333 BC Gaugamela – October 331 BC The game mechanics use a combat system that emphasizes...
"Juggernaut simulates Alexander the Great's final, major battle - The Hydaspes. Having gained hegemony over virtually all of the civilized western world through a series of stunning victories the late, Great King of Persia, Darius III, Alexander heads east, mostly to satisfy his compulsive curiosity and need for conquest. Gobbling up tiny tribes, running...
Sellasia, 221 BC Mantinea, 207 BC Phalanx covers two of the major battles in the waning days of the Successor Wars, in which the Greek city-states and leagues and the descendants of the original Diadochoi were still fighting for Hellenic supremacy, and in which the phalanx -- the massive, heavy infantry formation brought to peak efficiency by Alexander --...
The Great Battles of Alexander: Deluxe Edition, the updated, expanded, full-color-enhanced version of the best-selling, multi-award-winning game system that started the Great Battles of History series, includes new game counters, maps, packaging, battles, and scenarios that cover all the major battles from the original game and the Juggernaut module, plus...
Diadochoi covers the four major battles that took place during the early Diadochoi wars at the end of the 4th Century BC as Alexander the Great's marshals jostled and fought for position and control of his vast empire. Each of the diadochoi, the so-called 'successors', sought to expand upon and improve the Macedonian system of warfare so brilliantly used...
Tyrant is a tactical simulation of combat between the armies of Carthage and Syracuse, from 480-276 B.C. Long before Hannibal Barca led the armed forces of Carthage into a titanic struggle with Rome, Carthage had vied for centuries with the Greek city-state of Syracuse for supremacy in the Western Meditteranean. Tyrant includes twelve of the most decisive...
Virtually the complete history of Alexander the Great and the Macedonian art of war. The Great Battles of Alexander Expanded Deluxe Edition, the updated, expanded, full-color-enhanced version of the best-selling, multi-award-winning game system that started the Great Battles of History series, includes new game counters, maps, packaging, battles, and...