Players represent the powers of the XVth century: Holy Roman Emperor, Ottoman Turk Sultan, Pope, King of Spain, King of France and the head of the famous Medici family of Florence. The board is hexagonal with each player having a path by which his pawns can visit his direct left and right neighbors. In addition, each side has a direct path to the center of...
Italian cycling game issued in September 1961. It was titled 'Il Vigorelli' after Milano's famous velodrome. It was re-issued in 1966 under the name 'Il Gioco Dei Campionati Mondiali su Pista'. The game contains a track of 90 squares and eleven riders, and the possibility to play two races: Sprint (up to 11 players) and Team Pursuit (2 player game). Apart...
This game is about a world where free peoples struggle against the control of the Illuminati. There are two opposing teams in this game. On one side are the “Free Peoples” players who can only win or lose together. Their main goal is to survive. On the other side are the “Illuminati” players who must both the defeat the “Free Peoples” players and lastly...
Im Feuer Vorwärts! Ein Neues Kriegsspiel [Forward Into the Fire! A New Wargame] Nr. 102. Objective: Eliminate your opponent - moving/acting by turns. Gameboard is a battlefield. You have several different military units with different qualities (range, power,...) at your disposal. Place your units into the red/blue marked areal. Advance your units Attack...
Possibly translated as All Forward on the Eastern Front, this game covers the entirety of World War 1 in the East in 10 turns / about three hours. It is the companion game to the designer's take on the Western Front in WW1, All Quiet on the Western Front. The card backs in both games say Storm Over Europe, and the two games can be combined to play out the...
Game about the Crusades. Player move their armies through Europe towards Jerusalem. Play cards to move through specific terrain. Plunder cities to gain gold which can be used at other cities to purchase more troops. The player that conquers Jerusalem is the winner. A nice new mechanism is the Combat Tower: a cardboard and plastic tower containing...
In Immortal Kingdom, a strategy game with light RPG elements, you play as an Immortal, a being blessed with everlasting life until the ultimate Cataclysm. In order to escape this fate, you must take control of the races of the world and try to gain enough essence to ascend before the ultimate Cataclysm. Each turn will see a new event that will affect your...
Imperamus is an all-encompassing, strategic Euro-Ameri experience which transports players to the early days of the Roman Republic, at the very beginning of their conquest of the Italian peninsula. Players take on the role of noble Roman families who must balance competition with cooperation to expand the borders of Rome and create a civilization that can...
Players become the emperors/kings of empires/kingdoms of the ancient world. This may appear to be a wargame, but there are numerous roads to victory, as the use of trade and economic advancement is just as likely to prevail, in the end, as territorial expansion and conquest. Imperator includes 15 scenarios set from 1700 BC to 1200 AD. Each is very...