Gettysburg: Badges of Courage employs a game system developed for tactical combat. Infantry, Artillery and Cavalry are led by Division, Corps and Army commanders in a struggle to control terrain features like Little Round Top and Cemetery Ridge All three days Gettysburg can be played separately or together in battle-long scenario. Players have some control...
The German invasion of France and Belgium in 1914, the opening campaign of World War One, is one of the most dramatic in history: the famed German Schlieffen Plan, the infamous French Plan 17, the turn of the tide that was "the Miracle of the Marne," the series of outflanking moves in the" Race to the Sea," the death of the "old Contemptibles" of the BEF...
From the Publisher's Website: We printed this home-made board game on the back cover of our seventh issue, playable with pennies and a die, for those long train journeys. What could be more enticing to a mouse than a cup of tea? And what could be more enticing to a cat than a mouse? In our custom-made board game, you get to be a cat stalking the kitchen...
Around the time of the Civil War and following, the American West was certainly a wild place. Although it was sparsely populated, many of the inhabitants were desperate and dangerous. The West had always been home to large groups of American natives, but now had been receiving various undesirables such as cattle rustlers, gamblers, vigilantes, and...
Hellespont (411-410 BC) is the inserted game of VaeVictis magazine #139 and 4th game in the VaeVictis series The Peloponnesian War. It focuses on the victorious campaigns of Alcibiades against the Spartan Mindarus. In three great battles, Cynossema, Abydos and Cyzicus, the Athenian fleet takes back control of the straits and Alcibiades proclaims his status...
Extra Evil is an expansion for the The HellGame, containing 55 new cards, most of them Arcana cards. Among others, the deck contains: • Macinas. Some of the new cards in Extra Evil are machines that give permanent abilities to the Triumvirates very much like Daemonic “special skills.” These “macinas” need souls to work properly and can of course be stolen...
Hunde und Schakale is a modern German interpretation of the ancient Egyptian game, Hounds and Jackals: Game of the Pharaohs. It uses the same board and playing pieces (to represent hounds and jackals), but with a changed rules set. In the original game, players move their pieces based on the results of a randomizer (in modern days, a die is used), and...
The Hunt for Red October depicts "modern" naval combat in the North Atlantic, Soviets vs. Nato. The game contains 8 scenarios that place various combinations of aircraft, surface ships, and submarines at the players' disposal. The map is broken up into irregular "spaces" containing land, shallow or deep sea. Land spaces may contain airbases and/or ports;...
Indrago means "Inside the Dragon". In order to win this 2-players-strategy, the player must place his/her Knight (chip) in the middle of the enemy Dragon. Each player has 1 Dragon and 6 Knights of gold or silver color. Their strength depends on the color they stand (the game board is a tricolor "Island", surrounded by "water"). The Dragons can carry own...