Historic Games

Inferno: Guelphs And Ghibellines Vie for Tuscany

Tuscany, 1259. As wealth from crafts and foreign trade elevated northern Italy's urban families above the landed lords, rivalries within and among their cities hardened into conflict between two great parties. Ghibellines aligned with the Hohenstaufen imperial dynasty that ostensibly ruled Italy,  ...More...

No. of Players: 1 to 2

Duration: 60 to 360 minutes

Min. Age: 14

Levy And Campaign Series Volume 1: Nevsky: Teutons And Rus In Collision 1240-1242

Nevsky is a board wargame about the storied clash between Latin Teutonic and Orthodox Russian powers along the Baltic frontier of the mid-13th-Century. It is the first volume in GMT Games' Levy & Campaign Series portraying military operations in a variety of pre-industrial conflicts. In Nevsky, players  ...More...

No. of Players: 1 to 2

Duration: 60 to 360 minutes

Min. Age: 14

Levy And Campaign Series: Plantagenet: Cousins' War For England 1459-1485

England, 1459. The son of the great Henry V has not lived to fill his father's shoes. England has lost the Hundred Years War, and mighty lords amass lands and wealth rivaling the King's own. Henry IV left the door open for any such powerful lord with good pedigree to reach for the throne, and the  ...More...

No. of Players: 2

Manoeuvre Board Game: Distant Lands Expansion

The regiment had fought countless battles across the European continent. War had been waged in Bavaria against the Prussians, Catalonia against the Spaniards, under the great pyramids against the relentless Turk and even at New Orleans against those upstart Americans. Now new challengers have arisen  ...More...

No. of Players: 2

Duration: 60 minutes

Min. Age: 10

Men Of Iron Board Game: Infidel, Blood And Roses

The game that started it all, Men of Iron, covers the re-emergence of infantry in the early 14th century, along with a more perceptive understanding of the value of combined-arms warfare and the effective use of defensive terrain. The scenarios highlight the key elements that made these battles so  ...More...

No. of Players: 1 to 2

Duration: 60 to 180 minutes

Min. Age: 12

Men Of Iron Volume 4: Arquebus: The Battles For Northern Italy 1495 - 1544

Northern Italy - and especially Milan - at the end of the 15th century was the brutal focal point for power and control between France and the Imperialist empires of Venice and Spain. And the battles fought for this prize are a record of the changing face of how war was fought. At the start of the  ...More...

No. of Players: 1 to 2

Min. Age: 14

Men Of Iron Volume 5: Norman Conquests

The Normans, and their successors, had a large impact on history. Normans, from Nortmann (northman), were originally Viking raiders that settled in what would now be northern France. Normans gained territory as far away as southern Italy and Sicily, and modern day Syria. They were Crusaders, they  ...More...

No. of Players: 1 to 2

Duration: 60 to 240 minutes

Min. Age: 12

Musket And Pike Dual Pack

This Accursed Civil War and Sweden Fights On are being offered as a two-pack. Eleven, yes ELEVEN battles in one box! The award-winning Musket & Pike Battle Series was launched in 2002 with This Accursed Civil War and followed with Sweden Fights On within a year. Both have been out of print for over  ...More...

No. of Players: 2

Duration: 240 minutes

Min. Age: 12

Once We Moved Like The Wind, The Apache Wars, 1861-1886

Their names are virtually synonymous with the long conflicts with the native indigenes of the American West. Cochise, Victoria, Chato, Geronimo. These great war band leaders all come from the various tribes of the Apache, and the Apache Wars dominated the attention of the US government in its westward  ...More...

No. of Players: 2

Duration: 60 to 120 minutes

Peloponnesian War

This is the enhanced version of Mark Herman's Peloponnesian War design, originally published by Victory Games. Most current solitaire systems on the market today have the player take one side for the entire game. This pits the player against a random 'Bot system, even the best of which have some  ...More...

No. of Players: 1 to 2

Min. Age: 14

Pendragon Board Game: The Fall Of Roman Britain

Transporting players into the 4th and 5th Centuries A.D. and to the embattled Isle of Britannia, Pendragon: The Fall of Roman Britain, Volume 8 in GMT's COIN Series, covers a century of history from the first large-scale raids of Irish, Pict, and Saxon raiders, to the establishment of successor kingdoms,  ...More...

No. of Players: 1 to 4

Duration: 60 to 360 minutes

Min. Age: 14

Pericles: The Peloponnesian Wars

Pericles: The Peloponnesian Wars is a "sandbox" (unscripted) wargame that covers the ENTIRE period of conflict described in Thucydides classic history on the Peloponnesian wars. Pericles is a four-player game, where two teams of Athenian and Spartan factions fight for Hegemony in 5th Century Greece.  ...More...

No. of Players: 1 to 4

Duration: 30 to 360 minutes

Min. Age: 14