The Galactic Mystery Race Game With A Retro Theme (working title) is a game where people race their colony's ships across the galactic system, trying to land on the goal planet when it is most beneficial to them. However, players do not know who their opponents are, and additionally players can move each others' ships closer or further away from the goal...
In Galaxy Command, two to four fleets meet in a decisive battle. The key to victory is to find which enemy ship holds the enemy commander. Each player's fleet consists of a Mother Ship (with turrets), four Cruisers and six Fighters. There's also your Prison Outpost, which is sort of your home base (it doesn't move or shoot). Underneath a secretly chosen...
Courage is a squad based wartime strategy game where players vie for control of the battlefield using custom troops, secret orders, and subterfuge. Acting simultaneously, 2-8 players take on the role of Axis or Allied forces and engage in anything from small skirmishes to epic team battles. Courage emphasizes the use of tactics and troop management over...
Game of the Generals is an educational war game released in the Philippines in the 1970s. Its Filipino name is Salpakan. It is designed for two players, each controlling an army, and a neutral arbiter (sometimes called a referee or an adjutant) to decide the results of "challenges" between opposing playing pieces that like playing cards have their...
This is an excellent example of a British officer's wargame, designed for the instruction of military personnel in military manouevres; a later British version of "Kriegsspiel", a wargame originally invented by Lieutenant Georg von Reiswitz for training officers in the Prussian army during the early 19th century. The game is played on a map drawn on a...
Games of the World: How to Make Them, How to Play Them, How They Came to Be From the slip cover: From backgammon to the 3,000-year-old Royal Game of Ur, from Oriental kit contests to the universal tit-tat-toe and tug of war, this richly illustrated volume brings together for the first time more than one hundred of the world's most fascinating and enjoyable...
May 16,1942. Rommel's Panzerarmee Afrika races around the British Eighth Army's fortified Gazala line in an attempt to encircle and destroy the British positions. Rommel's panzers are stopped just short of their objective: for the next four weeks a seesaw battle rages across the desert. Over 1000 tanks and a quarter million troops grapple in a life and...
"Gefahr über Sunnydale" (Sunnydale in Danger) is an adventure game based on the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". One player battles as the great master the other players who use 5 of 6 heroes (Buffy, Xander, Willow, Giles, Oz and Riley), each with his own special ability. The great master chooses secretly one of 4 scenarios, which determines...
One night only!. That's all the time the invaluable MacGuffin Gems will be on display on the Metropolis Museum. As one of the top four thieves in the city, you've prepared for months to infiltrate the museum and steal the Gems. Now that you're inside the museum, you not only need to sneak from the guards, but also dodge the other thieves' attempts to spoil...