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Against the Odds magazine investigates military history from a broad perspective. The economic, political, religious and social aspects of warfare are examined in concert with events on the battlefield. Issue 53 is dedicated to the High Imperial period of Rome. It comes with a solitary wargame, ROME, INC.
The Mission is a “grand strategy” solitaire game by Ben Madison (Gorbachev, N, The White Tribe, The First Jihad, and more) covering almost 1,300 years of Christian history.
Caesar: Rome vs. Gaul is a fast-playing, easy-to-learn, two-player card-driven game on Caesar’s conquest of Gaul. The system used is mostly similar to Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage.
The Mission is a “grand strategy” solitaire game by Ben Madison (Gorbachev, N, The White Tribe, The First Jihad, and more) covering almost 1,300 years of Christian history.
Fight The Fall is a 2 players wargame containing two battles of the Late Roman Empire facing barbarian invasions.
The First Jihad: The Rise of Islam 632-750 is a solitaire strategy game about the rise of the first caliphate and the expansion of Islam. The player plays the opposing nations to the formidable Islamic surge.
Solitaire Caesar is a solitaire, province based wargame by David Kershaw in which the player re-creates the rise and fall of the Roman Empire from 300BC to 1453AD. You will lead the legions of Rome to victory, and then struggle to preserve the legacy of Empire from Barbarian onslaughts.
INVASIONS: The Germanic Invasions of Europe in the Dark Ages is an historical boardgame for 2 to 4 players. Invasions simulates almost 300 years of European history, from the late days of the Roman Empire to the advent of Islam.
French edition. English edition available.
Alexander against Persia is a tactical game which presents the first 3 battles in the By the Edge of the Sword Antiquity series. They bring onto the stage the greatest conqueror of Antiquity in the course of the mighty confrontations which enabled him to bring Persia to its knees.
Cataphract portrays the development of the art of war wrought by the early Byzantine Empire, during the reign of Emperor Justinian, under his great Generals, Belisarius and Narses. GBOH Vol.8
Chalons, 451 AD : An Unstoppable Force Meets An Immovable Alliance
Marathon, 490 BC : Greeks versus Persians.
Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea is an exciting, easy-to-learn, easy-to-play but challenging to master abstract game in which players guide the renowned and legendary civilizations that surged and receded around the shores of the Mediterranean, which the Romans aptly called the Mare Internum, or Inner Sea.
2019 reprint of the famous Mark Herman's solo design, originally published in 1991 by Victory Games.
January-February 2019 - Including the game : Pyrrhus Imperator
The Age of Iron and Rust is an expansion for Time of Crisis, the game that allows 2-4 players to re-create the Roman Crisis of the Third Century, leading separate dynasties in a struggle for control of an empire beset by threats both internal and external.
With this expansion you will be able to play with scenery and its new set of rules for sieging, incendiary projectiles, and more…
This expansion adds historical battles related to the Persian wars (499 – 449 BC), to the Persians vs Greeks wars and to the Peloponnesus war (1st period: 431 – 421 BC) between Athens and Sparta.
ONUS! Rome Vs Carthage is a war game similar to miniatures games in which both sides fight an ancient battle.
Al Nofi's Imperium Romanum - The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire is an update to the classic game of the Roman Empire by Al Nofi.
New components and rules for Falling Sky.
In the year 333 BC, Alexander the Great and King Darius III crossed swords for the first time. The official war objective of Macedonia was revenge. Revenge on the Persians for the destructive campaign against Greece, which had taken place 150 years previously.
Alesia - Last Stand of the Gauls: The campaign of 52 BC, between Vercingetorix's Gauls and Caesar's Romans, ended in an epic confrontation around the fortified town of Alesia.
July-August 2018 - Including the game : Qui ose gagne ! (Who dares wins !) Cyrenaïque 1942
May-June 2018 - Including the game : Hellespont 411-410 BC
French edition
French edition
French edition
expansion for Caesar, Conquest of Gaul. Battles of the Warrior Queen can also be played with the Simple Great Battles of History (SGBoH) rules.
Volume VIII in GMT’s COIN Series transports us into the 4th and 5th Centuries A.D. and to the embattled Isle of Britannia. Pendragon – The Fall of Roman Britain covers a century of history from the first large-scale raids of Irish, Pict, and Saxon raiders, to the establishment of successor kingdoms, both Celtic and Germanic.
Victory or Death: The Peloponnesian War, the next game in the Quartermaster General Series, is a card driven/hand management/area control eurogame/wargame for 2 to 4 players playing on two teams, and takes about 90 minutes to two hours to play.
In this Strategy and Tactics magazine you will find historical articles and the wargame Agricola with die cut counters.
the clash between Darius III of Persia, ruler of the largest empire in the world-- and a young man named Alexander, who ruled a small, semi-backward nation and a collection of Greek states where he had only recently had to suppress rebellion.
In Time of Crisis, 2-4 players take the reins of Roman dynasties, gathering and wielding influence among the senate, military, and people of Rome to ensure that their legacies are remembered by history instead of being lost to the mists of time.
Pericles is a ‘sandbox’ (unscripted) wargame that covers the ENTIRE period of conflict described in Thucydides classic history on the Peloponnesian wars.
Simple Great Battles of History (Simple GBoH) allows gamers to recreate the significant battles of the ancient Western world covered by GMT's Great Battles of History (GBoH) Series.
Zama is a simulation of the climactic battle of the Second Punic War: the decisive struggle between the Roman Republic and Carthage for control of the Western Mediterranean.
FALLING SKY is a game from the COIN serie that takes 1 to 4 players into the military actions and complex politics of Roman-occupied but not-yet-conquered Gaul.
Mounted map
In this Against the Odds Magazine you will find historical articles and the wargame Vercingetorix with die cut counters and a plastic counter tray.
PAX ROMANA covers the Europe from 300 BC through the end of the 1st century BC, when control of the Mediterranean was in a state of flux with four empires possible.
Give me back my legions! The victory of Arminius, Teutoburg Forest IX. AD
Phalanx is an expansion for Great Battles of Alexander.
Phalanx is an expansion for Great Battles of Alexander
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