The siege rules make use of the authors Decision Games system which enables a siege to be conducted in terms of Stages as outlined by the great French military engineer Sebastion de Vauban. The system uniquely and realistically enables the timing of the advancing stages of a siege to run sequentially with the land campaign and along the timetables set by...
The Land rules contain comprehensive standing orders for each troop type and battle orders assigned to each commander. Dependent upon the circumstances encountered during a game these force players and units to act historically. The casualty system uses HIT dice which translate immediately into battlefield and campaign casualties. After battle pursuits and...
The naval campaign The Caribbean uses the unique Decision Games system and is based on the campaigns of 1781 and 1782 between the French Admiral Comte Francois de Grasse and the British Admirals Sir George Rodney, Sir Samuel Hood, Sir Francis S. Drake and Thomas Graves during the American War of Independence. It includes three naval Decision Games....
This book contains the Table Top Rules for Naval Battles. The rules are suitable for both fleet actions and also small one on one encounters. It includes an introduction to 18th century naval actions and tactics. The battles are fought on hexagons with fleets manoeuvred with a system using specially designed order cards which players are invited to...
18WE: Western Europe is an 18xx game based on Mike Hutton’s popular 1862: Railway Mania in the Eastern Counties system, with a larger board, more offboard areas, and a strong operational spin. It features a random setup of twenty one companies that have four different kinds of licenses, and appear in different orders through the game. Additionally, it has...
1914 is a traditional hex and counter wargame that attempts to simulate the opening phases of WW I on the Western Front. This was James Dunnigan’s second game for Avalon Hill. Like many wargames combat is resolved through the use of dice and a Combat results table (CRT). The players accumulate victory points by occupying 24 key areas at the game end as...
The Great War is usually portrayed and imagined with the blasted landscapes of the static, trench warfare that emerged late in 1914 and persisted far into the conflict. However, while it is fair to recognize that much of WWI was characterized by this stalemate, it is also fair to point out that the early and later parts of the war were witness to...
At Villers Cottérêts: Mons 1914 is a tactical, battalion scale game on the rearguard action during the battle of Mons where a massively outnumbered BEF brigade held up 2 German divisions for an afternoon until another friendly force arrived and was able to cover their retreat. The battle itself is embelematic of the whole Mons campaign in itself where the...
1914 Deluxe is an operational level hex-and-counter wargame that covers the first few months of the First World War when the German Army began its offensive into neighboring France. The German player must decide how best to perform the initial invasion. Should it be a direct assault across the French border, or should the assault follow the “Schlieffen...
On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, member of the Black Hand, a political organization seeking for a merging of the Balkan area into a Greater Serbia or a Yugoslavia. Austria-Hungary subsequently issued an ultimatum against Serbia. As the ultimatum was rejected, Austria-Hungary...