Based on City of Spies: Estoril 1942, 2491 Planetship reimplements the mechanisms from a city of spies to a new fictional universe filled with rich lore and characters. In this game, each player captains a "planetship" — a world-sized spacecraft that wonders through the galaxy — and you've received a distress signal from the Mothership Alpha, the first and...
It is the 1830's. The United States is a young republic, at whose heart is a constitution guaranteeing the rights and privileges of all its citizens. A stone's throw away, on the other side of the Niagara River, is Upper Canada. Here rights and privileges are determined by familial and social connections. The province is controlled by a small clique of...
4000 A.D. is a multi-player, Strategic level, unique board-wargame set two thousand years in the future, when men have spread to the planets of other stars, hundreds of light-years from the Earth. An interstellar conflict between worlds is its subject. The concept of star travel by hyper-space is the basis of its unique playing character. 4000 A.D. is pure...
Card game played with traditional deck of cards, with some small elements of poker. The deck is divided in two: Red Cards & Black Cards. One player takes all the black cards, while the other takes all red cards. They will each play with their own deck throughout the whole game - never mixing them. Players will separate the face cards (J, Q, K) and keep...
"4th Reich: Puremen vs. the Mutants for Control of the World" is a somewhat obscure wargame by Task Force Games based on (albeit without attribution) the SF-novel "The Iron Dream" by the Jewish author Norman Spinrad. This very controversial novel describes a parallel world in which Hitler wasn't successful with his "Kampf" in Germany and became a...
4XL is a sandbox 4X space game for 1-2 players age 12+, designed in Japan by Charles Ward from EX1ST GAMES, and is published as forever-free print and play game for the 2019 Solitaire Print and Play Contest. The art is by Szymek Dmitruk. Setting: "Welcome to The Future, stranger! Yep, that’s what they named this galaxy eons ago. Today, trade hubs and hull...
5150: Star Army is a rewrite and update of the military and bugs sections of the original 5150. This game has a strong focus on military skirmishes of up to about a company, with a platoon being more typical. Each figure represents one man, alien or vehicle. There are three basic scenarios- patrol, attack and defend, which are each altered by a system for...
"Without the Star Navy there is no Star Army!" "The Star Army motto is “We take the war to the enemy; one planet at a time.” They do a fine job of it but we take them to those planets and we get them back. And unless we do our job they can’t do their job. So listen up Cadet and I’ll tell you how we do it…” In 5150-Star Navy you can command a squadron of...
7 Ronin is an asymmetric two-player game in which one player controls a group of ninja attacking a village that's defended by seven ronin (masterless samurai), which are controlled by the other player. The ninja player wins by occupying five of the village's ten areas, while the ronin player wins by surviving eight rounds. Each turn starts with the players...
Both a strategic and tactical game, requiring the Japanese player to attack, but allowing him to make up to 2 false alarm games, to try to drive up the US player's "precaution" victory point concessions. He will also need to choose armor-piercing bombs or torpedoes for his Kate squadrons and to decide the waves' targets: battleships (and/or Enterprise, if...
8th Army: Operation Crusader - The Winter Battles for Tobruk, 1941, uses battalion/regiment scale units, the game depicts British attempts to relieve the Commonwealth garrison at Tobruk. 8th Army was one of three "double-blind" land warfare wargames released by GDW in the eighties. The game system used two maps so that both players were "in the dark" as to...