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Sopwith (board Game)
''Sopwith'' is a board wargame published by Gametime Games in 1978 that simulates aerial dogfights during World War I. Description ''Dogfight'' is a wargame for two to six players in which each player controls an airplane and attempts to be the final survivor of six-way combat. The hexagonal hex grid board features the landscape of no man's land. Six different airplanes of the war are depicted on round counters. Tracks along the sides of the board are used to monitor damage and ammunition for each plane. Each player has a landing strip in one of the six corners of the board, where only the owning player's airplane can refuel and take on more ammunition. Before the game begins, a number of storm clouds are placed on the board, which diminish combat damage and can damage airplanes that fly into them. Storm clouds are moved randomly each turn. Gameplay Airplanes can move straight ahead, turn left or right, or sideslip, maintaining the same direction while moving sideways to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gametime Games
Heritage Models was an American game company that produced role-playing games, metal miniatures, and game supplements. Wargaming and fantasy miniatures Heritage Models, a manufacturer of metal miniature wargaming soldiers, was founded by Jim Oden in the 1970s in Dallas, Texas. In 1974 Oden also opened a retail games store, The Royal Guardsmen. Oden ran into cash flow problems, and in January 1977 agreed to merge with Custom Cast, a miniatures company founded by Duke Seifried that specialized in the new market of fantasy miniatures for the burgeoning role-playing game market. Siefried and Oden agreed to merge Custom Cast, Heritage Models, and The Royal Guardsman under the Heritage Models name. Seifried moved to Dallas to support the new company. Siefried created licensed lines for several Hollywood and fantasy fiction properties such as Conan the Barbarian, ''Lord of the Rings'', and John Carter of Mars. Game historian Shannon Appelcline noted that "Seifried [was] one of the most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Board Wargame
A board wargame is a wargame with a set playing surface or board game, board, as opposed to being played on a computer or in a more free-form playing area as in miniatures games. The modern, commercial wargaming hobby (as distinct from military exercises, or Military simulation, war games) developed in 1950s in games, 1954 following the publication and commercial success of ''Tactics (game), Tactics''.. The board wargaming hobby continues to enjoy a sizeable following, with a number of List of wargame publishers, game publishers and gaming conventions dedicated to the hobby both in the English-speaking world and further afield. In the United States, commercial board wargames (often shortened to "wargames" for brevity) were popularized in the early 1970s. Elsewhere, notably Great Britain where miniatures had evolved its own commercial hobby, a smaller following developed. The genre is still known for a number of common game-play conventions (or game mechanics) that were developed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War I
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting took place mainly in European theatre of World War I, Europe and the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, Middle East, as well as in parts of African theatre of World War I, Africa and the Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I, Asia-Pacific, and in Europe was characterised by trench warfare; the widespread use of Artillery of World War I, artillery, machine guns, and Chemical weapons in World War I, chemical weapons (gas); and the introductions of Tanks in World War I, tanks and Aviation in World War I, aircraft. World War I was one of the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflicts in history, resulting in an estimated World War I casualties, 10 million military dead and more than 20 million wounded, plus some 10 million civilian de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hex Grid
A hex map, hex board, or hex grid is a game board design commonly used in simulation games of all scales, including wargames, role-playing games, and strategy games in both board games and video games. A hex map is subdivided into a hexagonal tiling, small regular hexagons of identical size. Advantages and disadvantages The primary advantage of a hex map over a traditional square grid map is that the distance between the center of each and every pair of adjacent hex cells (or ''hexes'') is the same. By comparison, in a square grid map, the distance from the center of each square cell to the center of the four diagonal adjacent cells it shares a corner with is times that of the distance to the center of the four adjacent cells it shares an edge with. This equidistant property of all adjacent hexes is desirable for games in which the measurement of movement is a factor. The other advantage is the fact that neighbouring cells always share edges; there are no two cells with contact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heritage Models
Heritage Models was an American game company that produced role-playing games, metal miniatures, and game supplements. Wargaming and fantasy miniatures Heritage Models, a manufacturer of metal miniature wargaming soldiers, was founded by Jim Oden in the 1970s in Dallas, Texas. In 1974 Oden also opened a retail games store, The Royal Guardsmen. Oden ran into cash flow problems, and in January 1977 agreed to merge with Custom Cast, a miniatures company founded by Duke Seifried that specialized in the new market of fantasy miniatures for the burgeoning role-playing game market. Siefried and Oden agreed to merge Custom Cast, Heritage Models, and The Royal Guardsman under the Heritage Models name. Seifried moved to Dallas to support the new company. Siefried created licensed lines for several Hollywood and fantasy fiction properties such as Conan the Barbarian, '' Lord of the Rings'', and John Carter of Mars. Game historian Shannon Appelcline noted that "Seifried asone of the most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Play By Mail
A play-by-mail game (also known as a PBM game, PBEM game, turn-based game, turn based distance game, or an interactive strategy game.) is a game played through postal mail, email, or other digital media. Correspondence chess and Go (game), Go were among the first PBM games. ''Diplomacy (board game), Diplomacy'' has been played by mail since 1963, introducing a multi-player aspect to PBM games. Flying Buffalo Inc. pioneered the first commercially available PBM game in 1970. A small number of PBM companies followed in the 1970s, with an explosion of hundreds of startup PBM companies in the 1980s at the peak of PBM gaming popularity, many of them small hobby companies—more than 90 percent of which eventually folded. A number of independent PBM magazines also started in the 1980s, including ''The Nuts & Bolts of PBM'', ''Gaming Universal'', ''Paper Mayhem'' and ''Flagship (magazine), Flagship''. These magazines eventually went out of print, replaced in the 21st century by the online ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
