VICTORIA CROSS is a block style, area movement game covering the Battle of Rorke's Drift during the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879. The game plays in 2 hours and has 60 blocks, a full color mapboard with a 3d view of the battlefield, charts and dice. The game is very exciting and has many decisions to be made. Playable by the novice gamer and detailed enough for...
This wartime jump and move game has the objective of players to move men across an open field past enemy guards and into an opposing fort. 5 Guards sit along a row in front of their fort. Opposition players can move and jump over the man in front (like checkers) to proceed towards the opposing fort but must follow a line connecting the next space. When the...
Victory & Glory: Napoleon is a game of grand strategy and fast-play tactical battles in which one player takes the role of Napoleon Bonaparte and attempts to dominate the entire continent of Europe while the other player controls Great Britain and the other allied nations and troops that comprise an ever-changing alliance bent on stopping Napoleon! They...
From book: Welcome to the latest chapter in the VBAM Series: the Victory by Any Means: Fire As She Bears! Edition. In these source materials we explore the exciting world of naval combat at the height of the Age of Sail. It is a time when England’s “Wooden Walls” kept her commerce alive and the armies of Napoleon at bay. A time when tall, proud warships...
Victory in Europe is a game covering the Second World War in Europe from 1939 to 1945. One player commands the Axis powers, the other the Allies. Players maneuver their armies on an area map of Europe, fighting for control of key victory cities and critical resources. Air, naval, and ground units are all involved. Battles are fought when enemy units clash...
Vintage strategy board game about air battle with chess mechanic, square to square movement. Different airplanes (heavy bombers, diving bombers, fighters - each side owns 15 airplanes) and anti aircraft guns (each side owns 5 such a guns) have different actions. Player, who first capture opponents town, wins the game. Published in Brussel, Belgium. —user...
The Renault FT, a French light tank, was used by both French and American forces to turn the tide during the final stages of the Great War (World War I). The FT was aptly nicknamed the "Victory Tank" thanks to its essential role during the war effort. The tank was sure to terrify its opponents fighting in the trenches on the Western Front. In Victory Tank...
In Victus: Barcelona 1714, the players become the high military rank that must defend the city of Barcelona during the Bourbon siege, from 07/25/1713 to 09/11/1714. The players must collaborate to defend Barcelona from the assaults and avoid the surrender. If the players get that Barcelona doesn't fall before the end of the game, they'll win; otherwise...
Published by Gamescience Corporation in 1965, this game claims to be "a remarkably realistic recreation of the situation" in Vietnam. One player or team controls the Vietcong and the other controls the Government forces. You win either a diplomatic victory or a military victory. Viet Nam includes area movement, insurgency, a government stability index, air...
English: Vietnam is a collector NAC-based Tactical level board-wargame, set in this bloody conflict. It recreates the battles and challenges that came under american detachments. The huge amount of tokens shows the different units and weaponry used: Viet Cong, Green Beret, heliborne troops, infantry, mortars, anti-aircraft, missile launchers, Chinook...
From the website: "The US was engaged in the Vietnam Conflict from the late 1950’s until the mid 1970’s costing the lives of over 60,000 Americans and over 3,000,000 North Vietnamese, thus being the first American defeat in war. What if the American military had decided to launch an invasion of North Vietnam to force them to sue for peace? Could things...
Vietnam Solitaire puts the player in the shoes of the American and South Vietnamese army as they fight off the Communists in the 60s and 70s. The player will control units representing ARVN, US Regulars, US Air-Cav, Napalm, B52s and Special Forces fighting against a simulated North Vietnamese & Viet-Cong enemy. The game is designed to be fast-play (approx....