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Battleline Publications
Battleline Publications was a board wargame company founded by Steven Peek in 1973. Output was relatively low at first, with each game being funded by sales of the one before, but their games were generally well-respected. Several were re-published by Avalon Hill, and their second game, '' Wooden Ships and Iron Men'' designed by S. Craig Taylor is still considered one of the better games on its subject. They also put out a couple games that can be considered card wargames, and at one point became a division of Heritage Models. Products *''Air Force'' (1976) *'' Alpha Omega'' (1977) *'' Armor Supremacy'' (1979) *''Circus Maximus'' (1979) *'' Custer's Last Stand'' (1976) *'' Dauntless'' (1977) *'' Flat Top'' (1977) *'' Fury in the West'' (1977) *''Insurgency'' (1979) *'' Machiavelli'' (1977) *'' Naval War'' (1979) *'' Objective: Atlanta'' (1977) *'' Rally 'Round the Flag'' (1975) *''Samurai'' (1979) *''Seven Days Battles'' (1973) *'' Shenandoah'' (1975) *'' Ship 'o the Line'' (1976) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Board Game
A board game is a type of tabletop game that involves small objects () that are placed and moved in particular ways on a specially designed patterned game board, potentially including other components, e.g. dice. The earliest known uses of the term "board game" are between the 1840s and 1850s. While game boards are a necessary and sufficient condition of this genre, card games that do not use a standard deck of cards, as well as games that use neither cards nor a game board, are often colloquially included, with some referring to this genre generally as "table and board games" or simply "tabletop games". Eras Ancient era Board games have been played, traveled, and evolved in most cultures and societies throughout history Board games have been discovered in a number of archaeological sites. The oldest discovered gaming pieces were discovered in southwest Turkey, a set of elaborate sculptured stones in sets of four designed for a chess-like game, which were created during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flat Top (game)
A flattop is a type of very short hairstyle. Flat top, Flattop, or Flat Top may also refer to: Places * Flat Top (Ross Dependency), the tallest peak in the Commonwealth Range in Antarctica, rising to * Flat Top (Coats Land), table mountain in Coats Land, Antarctica * Flat Top (Georgia), a mountain in Rabun County, Georgia, U.S. * Flat Top, Jefferson County, Alabama * Flat Top, Virginia * Flat Top, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States * Flat Top Island, Tasmania * Flat Top Island, Queensland * Flat Top Manor, manor near Blowing Rock, North Carolina * Flattop Island, in the San Juan Islands of the U.S. state of Washington. * Flattop Island (Nunavut), Canada * Flattop Mountain, name shared by many mountains and buttes in the United States Other uses * A term for an Aircraft carrier. * Flat Top (film), ''Flat Top'' (film), a 1952 film starring Sterling Hayden as an aircraft carrier commander * Flat Top (song), a song by the Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trireme (game)
A trireme ( ; ; cf. ) was an ancient vessel and a type of galley that was used by the ancient maritime civilizations of the Mediterranean Sea, especially the Phoenicians, ancient Greeks and Romans. The trireme derives its name from its three rows of oars, manned with one man per oar. The early trireme was a development of the penteconter, an ancient warship with a single row of 25 oars on each side (i.e., a single-banked boat), and of the bireme (, ), a warship with two banks of oars, of Phoenician origin. The word ''dieres'' does not appear until the Roman period. According to Morrison and Williams, "It must be assumed the term pentekontor covered the two-level type". As a ship, it was fast and agile and was the dominant warship in the Mediterranean from the 7th to the 4th centuries BC, after which it was largely superseded by the larger quadriremes and quinqueremes. Triremes played a vital role in the Persian Wars, the creation of the Athenian maritime empire and its downf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Submarine (wargame)
''Submarine'' is a board wargame published by Battleline Publications in 1976 that simulates submarine warfare during World War II. The following year, Avalon Hill bought the rights to the game, expanded the rules and republished it with new cover art. Description ''Submarine'' is a two-player board wargame in which one player controls a submarine trying to sink a target such as a freighter or aircraft carrier, while the other player controls the target and anti-submarine defenses such as destroyer escorts. The map is a blank isomorphic hex grid in three sections, which can be transposed to provide new map space if a battle moves off the original board. Gameplay The game has basic and advanced rules. In the advanced game, the submarine commander uses a hidden movement system to plot the submarine's movement one turn in advance, and the submarine is not placed on the map board until it has been discovered by sonar, radar or visual means. At the same time, the anti-submarine playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
