"Gringo! The Mexican War 1846-1848" is a Post Napoleonic era wargame depicting five battles of "The Mexican War". For the battles in Gringo!, both sides run the gamut from mountain assaults to street-fighting, allowing wargamers to see some of the differences between ACW-era tactics and those of the Napoleonic era. The battles included are: Buena Vista...
A nearly complete game published in RBM Studio's C3i Magazine No. 16 (2005). The issue contains die-cut counters, map, charts and special rules for the battle. Players must have the basic rules from Gringo! (or download them from the GMT Web site) to play. The game is a minigame based on the Great Battles of the American Civil War game system. The map is...
Battles with the Gringos includes four half-map engagements that are each different, each with its own, unusual terrain, each with a set of problems facing both players. And each battle takes only a couple of hours, as well as being very playable solitaire. Palo Alto: May 8, 1846. The opening battle of the war, what looks to be a straightforward Napoleonic...
An educational game about the WTO and how global economy is working. The two ressources chosen here as examples are cotton and coffee. The players play different countries (Vietnam / Kamerun / USA / EU)with different starting conditions. They invest money ("oro") into their own economic engine (and organize their domestic economy) and buy and sell the...
Strategy & Tactics magazine #220. Group of Soviet Forces Germany features a simulation of a hypothetical Soviet invasion of Germany in the late 1970's. It is a two-player alternative history game intended to examine what could've happened during the first month of fighting had the Soviets opted to invade Germany during the Cold War. An assumption is made...
Grow is a solitaire game where the player guides a growing forest towards safety from the lumber industry. The Player builds his/her tree through a series of rounds using hex tiles representing branches and leaves. The leaf tiles provides energy (used as Action point) for the player to spend growing his tree further or expanding his tree population. As the...
On 15th November 1943, 100,000 Japanese of the IJA broke through the Chinese defense lines at Shek Mun, Cili and Lishui River. The 74th Division of the Chinese 57th Army (nicknamed as "Growling Tiger Division") was ordered to defend Changde and fate will decide the outcome of the battle. The Battle of Changde began on 18th November 1943 when the Imperial...
GRUNN: Pioniers in de Provincie ("Grunn, Pioneers in the Provence") is a game in which 1 to 6 players create their own version of the northern province of Groningen, Netherlands. Gameplay is family-friendy, and about optimizing the puzzle, as each type of landscape tile scores victory points in different ways. You develop a landscape by turning over a...