One of the most complete books about paper and pencil games in the world. It contains 101 games among traditional, less known and totally original ones, all to be played with just paper and pencils. Featuring contributions by renown game designers as Spartaco Albertarelli, Domenico Di Giorgio, Alessandro Gatti, Dan Glimne, Beppi Menozzi, Paolo Mori, Water...
The appearance in the sky of the Great Comet (Halley's) foretells much bloodshed; battles will ravage the land when three kings lay claim to the throne of England! 1066: The Year of the Comet is a block wargame covering the crucial campaigning months of 1066, the year Britain was invaded twice, first by the Vikings and later by the Normans! The map covers...
5 mini-expansions included in the Kickstarter edition of the game. 5 Players ExpansionAdditional material for a fifth player: four additional location tiles (two ordinary and two sniper tiles), four additional characters, two police and a new player board. Bad NeighbourhoodA new location tile. Police can't see in to the bad neighbourhood location tile from...
"and a Guide to the American War of Independence".A standard size booklet of miniatures rules with charts for conducting battles of the AWI. The game scale given is fifteen minutes per turn, one inch equaling twenty yards, and each figure representing twenty men. The basic organizational unit is the battalion/regiment. There are detailed explanations for...
"Nem azt mondom Uraim, hogy a franciák nem fognak jönni. Csak azt mondom, hogy nem a tengeren." - John Jervis, St. Vincent grófja, az Admiralitás Első Lordja Az 1805: Sea of Glory feleleveníti a napóleoni háborúk korának legkeményebb és legkiszámíthatatlanabb ütközeteit a nyílt vízen. Ketten játszhatjátok, miközben egyikőtök az angol királyi flottát...
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...
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...
In 1918, newly independent Finland is in turmoil. The Senate and the Parliament are paralyzed, restless Russian troops are still stationed all over the country, and pro-government and revolutionary paramilitaries are clashing. The Senate flees the troubles from the capital to the north, while its army, the White Guard, starts to disarm Russian garrisons....
After the capitulation of Imperial Germany in 1918, German representatives formally handed over political power to the Estonian Provisional Government. On 16 November 1918, an order was given by the Russian Red Army HQ to follow the retreating German units. On 28 November 1918, the 6th Red Rifle Division struck the border town of Narva, which marked the...
"1942: Battle for the Mediterranean" is a two-player wargame simulation of the naval operations in the Mediterranean in January-October 1942. The objective in the game is to sink the largest possible number of enemy warships and enemy shipping, and to keep supplied their respective ground forces and bases in North Africa (for the Axis) and Malta (for the...
1st Alamein is my (Lou Coatney's) 1997-designed free, print-and-play 2-player game about the opening battle for Alamein, in July 1942, which was Rommel's best chance to break through and take naval base Alexandria, Cairo, and the Suez. It is the first part of my Battles for Alamein game set, and it is an ideal introductory game for the hex-and-counter game...