Sleek, elegant and breathtaking, the transport vessel used by Queen Amidala of Naboo is a handcrafted J-type ship powered by a 327 Nubian engine, specially crafted for the young leader. In keeping with the peaceful nature of the Naboo people, the Queen's ship has no weapons, only deflector shields. Queen Amidala uses her ship to escape the Trade Federation...
Starfire II was the first expansion for the original pocket game Starfire. Although it was an expansion for Starfire, it was also designed as a stand alone game, and included the rules for the Starfire system. Starfire II built on the Starfire (1st ed) rules, adding various ship systems to the prior rules and adding space fighters; it did not however...
Starfire New Empires was an expansion that provided a set of campaign rules for the Second Edition (Boxed Set) of Starfire, allowing players to create their own races and explore, expand, research, and conquer within the Starfire Universe. The Starfire series is a series of games which simulate combat in space at sub-light speed. Galactic travel is...
The Earth is a dead husk. Having mined all of its resources, facing a population many times that which could be possibly sustained and slowly mutating it into a massive, cloying, choking city, we had no choice but to set our greedy eyes on the planets around us and conquer new lands. After the Information War of the 21st century, the Corporations dissolved...
(from Compass Games website:) Steel Wolves is a solitaire simulation of the German submarine war against British and Allied shipping, the follow-on title to the award winning Silent War. Volume I covers the period from the start of the War in 1939 to the early months of 1943. You serve as BdU, Befehlshaber der U-Boote; the Supreme Commander of Uboats...
Two great games packaged together in this Deluxe Edition! Steel Wolves is a solitaire simulation of the German submarine war against British and Allied shipping, the follow-on title to the award-winning Silent War. Volume I covers the period from the start of the War in 1939 to the early months of 1943. You serve as BdU, Befehlshaber der U-Boote; the...
Designer/Publisher's Description: The object of Stonewall is to race your opponents from your starting point to your diagonally opposite corner of a 144 square grid board and back again by the roll of the dice. Every time you move you may place one wall piece of any length (single,double or triple)on the playing board to help your path or hinder your...
This is the first of the Area-Impulse games done by Avalon Hill which later included Thunder at Cassino, Turning Point: Stalingrad and Breakout Normandy. The game simulates the ferocious battle for the Arnhem Bridge on September 18-21, 1944. The game begins with the British holding the area around the bridge, surrounded by the Germans. They try to hold out...
Storm Over Dien Bien Phu is a 2-player wargame simulating the Battle of Dien Bien Phu from March to May 1954, focusing on the French central strongpoints of Gabrielle, Anne–Marie, Beatrice, Eliane, Claudine, Huguette and Dominique. One player controls the French forces, and the other player controls the Viet Minh forces. In the spring of 1954, General Giap...
On Easter Monday, 24th April 1916, the Irish Volunteer Force, Cumann na mBan, Fianna na hÉireann and Irish Citizen Army gathered at their mustering points across Dublin. 1,200 men, women and boy scouts seized control of the city centre, and at noon Patrick Pearce stood on the steps of the GPO and proclaimed the Irish Republic to a stunned crowd. Hopes that...
"Storm over Hengyang 1944 (衡陽風暴1944)" is a two-player board wargame that simulates the defense of Hengyang in late stage of Ichigo Operation, June 24 to August 8, 1944. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Hengyang Each turn represents 1 week and each area is about 1 km across. One player commands the Imperial Japanese Army(大日本帝國陸軍)and the other player...
Storm Over the Japanese Homeland was originally published in Japanese in Game Journal #60. Translated and republished in Special Ops #8 as Avenge Pearl Harbor. It simulates Operation DOWNFALL, the hypothetical invasion of Japan in November 1945. The game uses the same basic system as What Price Glory?, Operational cards are used on both attack and defense....