Under the Lily Banners is a tactical battle game featuring five battles from the Thirty Years War. This is the third volume from the award winning Musket & Pike Battles Series detailing 17th Century warfare, often known as the Dawn of Modern Warfare. This volume features the rise of the French Army after their entry into the Thirty Years War in 1635. Two...
Under the Southern Cross: The South American Republics in the Age of Fighting Sail is the fourth volume of the highly regarded Flying Colors series of games on naval combat. The focus is on the southern part of the South American continent: Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador, from the Wars of Independence starting in 1810...
From the introduction: "Undersea Warriors is a game of tactical combat between U-boat, or Submarine, and Destroyer, or anti-Submarine vessel. These are essentially non-nuclear "type" vessels, reflecting hypothetical combat which could be all the way from the middle of World War II, to the 1960's." The game appears to have come in a large ziplock bag with...
Putting the ‘reality’ back into your fantasy games Welcome to Undying Lands a completely revised version of FLD. The constant evolution of the rules is thanks to the feedback I have received. Before I briefly cover the new features of the rules I would like to firstly focus on why these rules came about. The purpose and intent of this game is to provide...
On August 20, 1980, Iraq invaded its neighbor Iran for a limited war with multiple objectives that was promised to be rapid: recover territories that the two powers were fighting over, counter the influence of the Iranian revolution and its leader Ayatollah Khomeini. But the offensive quickly bogged down and territorial gains were minimal. In 1981, Iran...
Unequalopolis is a marketplace game where users can buy, sell and trade properties while playing with rules that vary according to the "gender" of the player. The goal of the game is to become the richest player. Players are assigned genders through an initial roll of the dice, and restrictions (based on real-life gendered legal and social barriers)...
User Comments: "A Union So Tested" is an adaptation of the "Look Sarge, No Charts" WWII system. The game allows players to command approximately a division each. Individual bases represent regiments (approximately 250-500 men). The ground scale is 1" = 50 yds., regimental bases are 3"x1.5" in size. Each turn represents 15-30 minutes of time. The authors...
This book makes the 1936 edition of the tactical rules readily accessible for the first time to the public. It includes detailed rules for movement, gunnery, and other aspects of real naval warfare from the big gun era. The object of these games was to aid students of strategy and tactics in the comprehension of these complex subjects. The book includes:...
The object of the game is to accumulate the greatest number of "sales" (points) by completing sales of insurance to prospective clients. Universal Life was specifically designed to be played by financial security advisors of the AXA insurance company. This roll-and-move game has a predetermined course for each player to follow. Along the course, each...
From the publisher: The Universal Space Combat System is a simple, fast-paced science fiction miniatures-based futuristic space combat system that can be used with genres heavily based on science or heavily based on fiction, and throughout a wide variety of technology levels. It can stand alone as its own skirmish or massive fleet game, or be integrated...
University of Tokyo Too Far is a board wargame that reproduces the battle between riot police and radicals in the Kanda Liberation Zone Struggle, which is hidden behind the Yasuda Auditorium incident at the University of Tokyo. In the "Kanda Liberation Zone Struggle", the students of Chuo University, Meiji University, Nihon University and Sophia University...