Finalist for 2005 About.com Deduction Game Design Competition. The first player places the "head" of the pipe on a 4x4 board; the second player, the "tail" of the pipe. Then each player draws a secret pipeline path between the two, crossing at least three spaces. Each player then marks three spaces of her pipe with holes. By placing and moving injectors of...
The Gremlins are coming! The Gremlins are coming! Travel with Billy through the town of Kingston Falls, warning the citizens of the Gremlin danger. If you reach a destination and find Gizmo in your backpack, you've made it in time, but if you find Stripe there instead... make tracks! The first player to successfully reach five Kingston Falls locations...
Grunt, Company Commander in Viet-Nam, appears to be the first commercial squad level wargame. The rules cover areas such as U.S. air strikes, Medevac evacuation by helicopter of U.S. casualties, 'body count' victory points, NLF ambushes and booby traps. It was first printed as a magazine game in Strategy & Tactics magazine #26. SPI said: "This game is...
Guadalcanal is a hex based simulation of the land battle of Guadalcanal from August, 7 1942 through January 29, 1943, with battalion-sized units and a map scale of approximately one mile per hex. The naval and aerial combat that surrounded Guadalcanal are assumed to have their historical results so only historical reinforcements are available. The "Basic...
Very Similar to Midway. The basic idea is each player has their own map of the area (in this case the Solomon Islands) behind a screen. Each player "searches" for the enemy fleet by flying search planes to the hex and calling the hex number. Once found, bombers can be sent in to sink the enemy fleet. The actual attack is fought on a separate battle board...
This CCG plays more like a board game than a card game. Each player starts with a Guardian, a very powerful creature with special abilities. In front of the Guardian you place a set of 3 stronghold cards. These are locations that give you bonuses. In front of these are 3 empty spaces that terrain cards will be placed. These will match up to the other...
Guards! Guards! A Discworld Boardgame sees players taking on the role of newly recruited members of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. With the Eight Great Spells missing from the Unseen University, the future of the Disc hangs in the balance. Each player is tasked with collecting and returning a number of the spells to the university before it is too late. Each...
Guerilla is based on the confrontation between Malaysia and Indonesia from 1963 to 1966. It simulates at section and platoon level typical operations of an infantry battalion in the First Division (Province) of Sarawak during the first half of the period of operations . . . Although an accurate simulation of the type of operations and tactics used...
Is a game similar to battleship, but you must to discover the oponent words. You have a card with some words and try to discover the words of your oponent. By turns, each player says a letter of the alphabet (asks for only one letter in his turn) and the oponent, answer with all the locations of the word in his own card (example: player 1 says the letter...
The goal of the game is to put all your 5 pawns onto the board, avoiding all the traps your opponents set. Each player chooses the character of his pawns (Kang, doctor Octopus, Magneto, doc Fatalis) and get 5 identical pawns with a drawing of this character. At the beginning of the game all players must be upon the same secret base (red or blue): they...
For more than a decade after the Spanish Civil War, anti-Francoist guerrilla groups composed of combatants and civilians that supported the extinct Second Spanish Republic, maintained a rural and armed resistance across the whole Spain. Designed with historical accuracy and accessible mechanics (card-driven game, blocks, point-to-point map), the game...