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The Great Battles of Alexander: Deluxe Edition (New Edition)

$119.95 CAD $129.95 CAD
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Description

Designers
Publisher GMT Games
Players 1-4
Playtime 240 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up
Expansions

Phalanx: Great Battles of Alexander Module
Diadochoi: Great Battles of Alexander Module
Simple Great Battles of History (2nd Edition)

Honors 1991 Charles S. Roberts Best Pre-World War II Board Game Nominee

Note on Expanded Deluxe Edition 2nd Printing: This edition will be identical to the previous version except that any known errata will be corrected AND the out of print Tyrant module will be included at no additional cost!

The Great Battles of Alexander: Deluxe Edition
, the updated, expanded, full-color-enhanced version of the best-selling, multi-award-winning game system that started the Great Battles of History series, includes new game counters, maps, packaging, battles, and scenarios that cover all the major battles from the original game and the Juggernaut module, plus five additional battles ... ten in all. The Great Battles of Alexander: Deluxe Edition is virtually the complete history of Alexander the Great and the Macedonian art of war.

Game features:

  • Third Edition rules, with many changes and additions
  • New maps for The Granicus and Chaeronea, plus an expanded Gaugamela map
  • Armies for the Danubian tribes, Illyrians, Greeks, Persians, Scythians, and Indians
  • Eighteen new Macedonian Commanders
  • New Restricted Line Command system for Persians, Indians and Greeks
  • Wing Commanders and Macedonian Contingent Commanders
  • Cavalry Shock Formations: The Companion Wedge and the Thessalian Diamond
  • The Persian Immortals and Kinsmen, Macedonian artillery, cataphracted cavalry ... and cataphracted elephants!

 

Components:

  • 720 full-color two-sided counters (43 full-color two-sided double-size counters)
  • Three full-color double-sided 22x34" map sheets
  • One 10-sided die
  • 32-page Rule Book
  • 24-page Scenario Book
  • Player Aid Cards: Two 8.5x11" cards showing game charts & tables

 

TIME SCALE: 20 minutes per turn
MAP SCALE: 70 yards per hex
UNIT SCALE: 100 men per strength point
NUMBER OF PLAYERS: One to four