"Alexandre contre la Perse" is a tactical level board wargame which presents the first three battles in the "Au Fil de l'Épée" Antiquity series. They bring onto the stage the greatest conqueror of Antiquity in the course of the mighty confrontations which enabled him to bring Persia to its knees. GRANICUS - In 334 BC, after crushing a revolt by the city of...
Alexandria, 1801 is the first part of SimTac´s series "Battles of the Revolution & the Empire" on Tactical (battalion, squadron, battery) level and medium/low complexity. You get two Battles in this box : the Battle of Mandara fought on March 13th and the Battle of Canope was fought on March 21st 1801 between the French L´Armée d´Orient and the British...
"Alexandros: Conquest and Empire" is a wargame on the conquests of Alexander the Great from 334-323 B.C. One player takes command of the Macedonians and the other leads the Persians. They fight over provinces in quarterly turns. Combat can be fought tactically, using a separate display reminiscent of the way of resolving combat in Eagle games, with units...
Alexandros and I Am Spartacus! features not one but two great ancient wargames that originally appeared in Command magazine in 1991 and 1992, garnering numerous Charles S. Roberts Award nominations and awards. This expanded edition features both games along with their multiple expansions, with two full-size game maps and updated graphics throughout....
Simple wargame following Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian Empire and India. Each player has two armies, led by Alexander and Antipater on one side, Darius and Memnon on the other side. Each army has a strenght track and is represented by a single counter on the map. Combat is resolved rolling a die per player, with various modifiers. Alexander...
This volume presents the rules of one of the first real wargames developed in Italy. At first it was played at the A.R.G.O. (Roman Association of Operative Games) and then, in the '70s, it was slowly presented, piece by piece, on the defense magazine Esercito e Armi - Interconair. At last it was published as a book by the Italian editor Mursia that had a...
Alfred in this period commenced both the re-structuring of his Army and his Burh building program in earnest. In 885 a Viking army that had been active in Frankia sailed and attacked Rochester, a pivotal Town/Burh with its confluence of roads and river running thru it. The Vikings of East Anglia, under Alfred’s longtime nemesis Guthrum, now saw an...
Mark Sheppard extends his coverage of this famous monarch with his game on Alfred’s decisive 876 campaign. Not only were the Saxon king and his followers contending with more Viking incursions, but with a rebellion among the native Britons, who sought to take advantage of the King’s woes by seeking to carve out their independence amidst the mayhem. Players...
In The Algorithm’s Choice, you take on the role of a recommender system. Compete to match items with users faster than your rivals – while making sure that they don't reach their goal first. Can you become the most successful algorithm of them all? Players change wishes of the shared users by playing cards. The goal of the game is to be the first player to...
Alien Armada pits human defenders of the far future in a desperate struggle against an invading fleet of alien ships and the alien's clone soldiers. Using an easy-to-learn, but subtle game system, Alien Armada presents an infinite variety of strategic and tactical options to all of its one to four players. In addition to its two-player scenario, there are...