Games - Board Games - Historical Piatnik - Anno 1452 - Contains a reivew and gameplay information. Anno 1452 Cards - English translation of the German rules for Anno 1452. Anno 1452 - Offers game information, and rules. Anno 1452 - Contains alternate rules for the game. Westpark Gamers - Description, strategies and review of Puerto Rico by Aaron Haag. Trev's boardgames - The jousting tournament to decide who is the most fearless knight can begin. Well armoured, the fighters enter the arena. El Grande - To collect most points during 9 turns (6 in the short version). The counting for points are done after turn 3, 6 and 9. You get points by having most (2nd and 3rd gets less points) caballeros in the castle and in respective region. Some other things gives bonus points, as the one with most caballeros in the king's region and in your home region. Games set in Ancient Rome - Modern games on the topic of Ancient Rome including over 100 different games. Quo Vadis - Through negotiations with the other players, will you collect the highest number of laurels and have at least one of your senators at the highest council, when it's filled up to 5. Quo Vadis - Brief Game Cabinet review. Republic Of Rome - Mykeul's Boardgames Page. Age of Renaissance FAQ - Offers a FAQ. Age of Renaissance Errata - Offers a FAQ. Age Of Renaissance - Features game information, links to media, and FAQ. Age of Renaissance Game Review and Player's Aid - Contains explanation of game mechanics and statistics. Age of Renaissance PBEM - Features past and current play-by-e-mail tournaments, as well as player aids and links. Black Death - BTRC On-line Catalog. a humorous and macabre little board game about life in the Middle Ages, circa 1400AD, during the height of the Plague. Each player takes the role of a different disease, and whoever wipes out most of Europe wins! BoardgameGeek: Blood Royale - With review, pictures, user rating, and German translation of the rules. Blood Royale - Description of the game. Blood Royale is a game of treachery, double-dealing, power-politics, dynastic aggrandisement and open warfare, set in the world of 14th Century Europe. Blood Royale - Description and review by Rick Heli. Civilization - Collect 1000 points in civilization cards by trading with the other players, and advancing your civilization. Play time is quite long. History Board Game - An educational board game that involves answering history questions while progressing around the board. The first player to move his or her token from start to finish along a track; by answering the questions in the paragraphs correctly, wins. Highlanders / Rheingold - To conquer as many strongholds as possible. The players must form his warriors to mighty troops and put them into the battles, to have a chance to drive away the defenders of the strongholds. The player who have the most important strongholds at the end of the game, is the winner. Game of the year in Germany 1993. Lords of the Renaissance - Set at the end of the Dark Ages, each player starts as a Merchant Prince of a European Duchy, operating a bank or merchant company speculating in the silk trade, and as a military or financial advisor to one of the great empires, advising their suzerains in matters of conquest, ship building, and the construction of cathedrals and libraries. Games Site by Rick Heli: Lords of the Renaissance - Contains review, official errata, variant and strategic analysis. Lords of the Sierra Madre - Game of robber barons in pre-revolutionary Mexico. Rick Heli: Lords of the Sierra Madre - Background articles in the news, comprehensive and organized official errata, analysis of various starting positions, comprehensive table of possible player actions, summary of all the cards, example pbem game, summary of the smelters, official introductory scenario and a variant. Medieval Madness - Contains information about the game, and rules. Medieval Merchant Review - Review by Peter Sarrett, GameReport. Sabledrake Magazine - Review by Christwart Conrad. BoardgameGeek: Ra - Features session reports, reviews, rules errata, and game aids. Ra - Player aid for keeping track of scoring. GameNight: Ra - Description of the game, and reviews. Got Dice Gamers - Review by William Keech. The Old Pacific: a Review - A 1903 Packard trip from San Francisco to New York completed in sixty-one days. Pancho Villa - Pancho Villa, Dead or Alive. The 1916 expedition to punish Pancho Villa. Chase the wily bandit leader throughout the Sierra Madre, while trying not to get lost, destroy your horses, or get into trouble with the local carrancistas. Rules for Revolution - Revolution in old Paris. Royalists and Jacobins fight for superiority in the 25 city districts, which are represented by the game board. The two players alternatively place one of their counters in order to control that space. Whoever controls all three of the buildings, or controls eleven city districts has won the game. The Kingdom of Sweden / Svea Rike - To collect as many reputation points as possible before 16 turns ( rulers) has passed. Those may be collected in different ways, as having a lot of gold, many fiefs, troops, history cards or traders. The game of the year in Sweden 1997. English Rules for Stonehenge - Imagine you are at the mystic site of Stonehenge. It is a dark midsummer's night, 395 B.C. You have come here to become the Master Druid. Tutanchamun - In 1922 archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon discovered the tomb of the boy-Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings. This proved to be one of the most valuable finds of historical importance, uncovering a veritable treasure-trove of relics and artifacts from ancient Egypt. In the game Tutanchamun you aim to gather as many valuable artifacts as possible. Vikingatid - The player who have most victory points when all players have been christianized, wins the game. The victory points are alloted in phase 9 in each turn, where conquered territories trading values give points, 2 points per viking country where you are king during this turn and also 5 points for each unknown territory you have discovered this turn. The Key of the City / Stadens Nyckel - To get the most reputation points (AP) when the move counter is on the last development card. Features descripton, rules, and pictures of components. Westbank Gamers - Description and review of Taj Mahal by Greg Schloesser. Alvin's Vintage Games and Toys - Illustrations of various editions, history, and games for sale. Bruno Faidutti - Review in English and French. Mayfair Inc - American publisher's site. The great stone-age, Bottiburp, is angry. You and your fellow stone-agers must appease him. You've decided to build a temple in his honor. To accomplish this, you have a holy tree stump and a bunch of rocks to work with. Gamers.com : Board : City of Bondage : User Review - Review. "If you're not Christian, it will likely not grab your attention, but it really is a fun game." Redemption Boardgame - Review and pictures. Edison & Co. -- Analysis - Strategy analysis for the partnership game. Rules to Survive - Complete rules in English to the Parker Brothers Game designed by J & C Courtland-Smith (first published 1982 and later re-published under the title Escape from Atlantis) Escape from Atlantis - To lead your Atlantis villagers in the courageous escape from the island of Atlantis, which is doomed to destruction, to security at the nearby coral islands. The winner is the one who at the end of game has succeeded in saving the most of his own villagers. The game ends as soon as someone succeeds to get all his surviving villagers in security. Island of Pirates - First stage is to take the map pieces from the other players. When you have all the pieces, you know where the treasure is located and you can rush away to the hidden place to get the chest. In the third and last stage, you have to run away. Spelmagazijn - Colditz - Description and pictures of the game Escape from Colditz. One player plays the guard, while the other players try to escape from this prisoncamp in World War II. The Raid of Hägbar the Horrible - The game is interrupted when the first one succeeds to get 7 loots home. All loot is now counted and gives as many points as possible, depending of the quality of them and what their wife think of them... For example she may not like female slaves! Jolly Roger - To fetch keys, find the chest at the ship, and return with it to hiding-place. Features descripton and pictures of components. Moonshot, the Game - Historically accurate board game puts you in mission control as you launch spacecraft and earn mission patches. The Game of Pilgrim's Progress - A totally customized beautifully illustrated board game for children, teens and adults. It follows the story line of John Bunyans classic, The Pilgrims Progress. Ahoy, Captain! Welcome to the seas of Pirateer... - Vast treasure, fast ships and cutthroat rivals await you on the seas of Pirateer, the fast-paced strategy game where fortunes turn on pirate skullduggery and a roll of the dice. Pirateer - All about the game. Animated Instructions. Free Demo. Game Trivia. Review from The Game Cabinet - Reviewed by Ken Tidwell. "Pirateer is an interesting little game that... I had dismissed as a simplistic roll the dice and move game... Then we slowly began to feel out some of the subtleties that make this game something more." Includes some basic strategy hints. Review from The Game Report Online - Reviewed by Peter Sarrett. Rating: 4 of 10 in both complexity and skill level. "What it lacks in innovation, Pirateer makes up for in presentation." Robin Hood - Each scenario has its own prerequisites and targets. Sometimes are the targets different for the players in the same scenario. Features descripton and pictures of components. Samurai - Samurai is an abstract board game by Reiner Knizia released simultaneously in Germany and the United States. The game is set in feudal times upon the 4 main islands of Japan. Samurai - To get the most points which requires that you both get most caught figures on one kind (high helmets, buddhas or rice fields) and a majority of the other tokens. You take a figures by having most "influence" over it, when the figure(s) are surrounded on land. The game finishes as soon all figures of one kind is taken away from the board, alternatively when 4 figures has been neutralized. Sindbad - To collect a fortune of a million Mischals and get back to Basra, by fighting monsters or trading in different cities. Features descripton, rules, review, and pictures of components. Mayfair Games Inc - American publisher's site. Seek your fortune as a merchant and an adventurer. You will deal in precious wares in the harbours of the Orient and discover priceless treasures on your voyages. However, your way across the seas is fraught with perils like thieves, monsters, genies and pirates will all conspire to halt your progress. Spelmagazijn - Targui - Description and pictures of Targui, a game from Jumbo about conquering the desert with your camels. Targui - To get control over all of the game board and the other players to flight from the territories. You can also agree to play a certain number of turns. The player with most economic gains, then wins. Mayfair Games Inc - American publisher's site. Five Bedouin tribes are beginning to inhabit the empty desert. They establish caravans, occupy water holes and link oases, while enclosing desert areas, thereby gaining points. In each round, you place two camels on the board. But which caravans should you develop, and in which direction, to establish yourself as the most successful lord of the desert? Tribes - In Tribes, the players are cave men and women. They hunt and gather food, make their tribal laws, and deal with natural disasters. But the object of the game is simple: Look after the children! In this game, the way to win is to have the most kids, and dowhatever you have to do to make sure they survive. Maestro - To have collected the most points, when the last applause card is put down. You collect the points by putting out your musicians in a row on the game board. However you must start every row by replace one of the marked musicians by a maestro. Euphrat & Tigris / Tigris & Euphrates - Tigris is a game about great civilizations. Your task is to build kingdoms and then empires, establish trade and agriculture, ensure your borders are secure, acquire treasures and construct monuments to the gods. Game Cabinet review. Euphrat & Tigris - FAQ, News, Rules, Reviews. Game published by Hans im Glück, in Essen, Germany. Euphrate & Tigris - The aim of each player is to develop the four key spheres of civilisation: settlements, temples, farms and markets. To do this, players will position their leaders, create and extend kingdoms, build monuments and resolve conflicts, thereby gaining victory points in each of the four spheres. The winner is the player who develops civilisation a balanced way, without revealing a sphere of weakness. Mayfair Games Inc - American publisher's site. Your responsibility is to see that your dynasty grows and prospers in this land. You must use your four leaders: the King, the Priest, the Merchant, and the Farmer, to accomplish your goal of forging strong kingdoms out of the fledgling settlements that dot the landscape. Prismatech Publishing - The Journeys of Paul Historical strategy game official site with description, and rules. Aces up - Review by Matthew Baldwin. Bruno Faidutti - Review in English and French. Dan Becker's Home Page - Review of the board game Carcassonne by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede. More Board Games in my Caltech Collection - Review by Robert M Dirks. Westpark Gamers - Review by Aaron Haag. Windopaene's World - Game review of Klaus-Jurgen Wrede's Carcassonne. netmation.com | netmation.net | netmation.org | netmation.tv Copyright © 1991-2005 Netmation Inc. All Rights ReservedSite Designed and Hosted by Netmation Inc.