The Ashes of Empire

Updates on Additional Cards

General use: Add the additional cards to the deck in "black hole." If you take any card you can keep it, one un-played cards counts as population points at the end of the game as follows: Alpha 1, Joker 2, Gold 4. Or use the card's special features at any time during your turn and discard the card after use.

Special card features:

Card 1 (joker): One fleet of any size can be moved to any planet.

Card 2 (Alpha): One enemy fleet of any size immediately has to withdraw to its home planets.

Card 3 (Gold): After dice have been rolled in a combat the owner of this card may cancel 1-4 friendly or enemy die rolls to be re-rolled thereafter.

Blitzkrieg General

New blood for the hobby?

The Gamers have created the Standard Combat Series that allows an easy entry for newcomers who already have decided to try a wargame.

With Blitzkrieg General UGG goes one step beyond.

Even Risk or Axis and Allies players soon feel comfortable playing the 4 pages of BG's Basic Rules.

The Advanced Rules of this area based game build the bridge to real wargaming, because:

Special terrain-, weather-, and supply-rules, as well as our BG command system will get to you, challenge your skills.

The BG option cards are one major difference from other easy-to-play strategic games.

Every advanced game is different for nobody knows when which random option card is taken, and what cards your opponents keeps on his hand.

Additional rules, and a step by step involvement of the USA into the war make BG a challenge also for experienced wargamers.

BG enables 1-8 players (Designer's suggestion: 5),from 1088, to play the entire WW2 in one evening.

BG Features:
area based map system easy die role procedure without tables land warfare
no ugly terrain effects or weather hinders your troops in the basic game
naval warfare production: build your own units

BG Contents:
560 counters
2 linkable maps, DIN A2 16.53" x 23.38" (Europe and Pacific)
2 Player Aid Cards
55 political & military Option cards
6 six-sided dice
boxed

Special: Miniature rules make BG playable with your preferred figurines.

Timetable: 1 turn = 3 months
Playing time: 2-12 hours
Player age: 10 years up

Looking for an instrument to educate new players? Here it is!

Cold Days in Hell

New game options

Liberation Politics: Germany will not get any replacements for the Ukrainian cities of Kiev, Karkov, and Rostov. See Scenario book page 4 "Production in Cold Days," last paragraph before "USSR."

Instead these RPs are used to build and repair the Ukrainian units (UK) and the Wlassow HQ.