Outlaws is a free print-and-play boardgame of gunfight skirmish combat in the Old West
Board Games
The Thing Board Game
If you’re a fan of John Carpenter’s The Thing, you may be interested in this boardgame version of The Thing.
Space Station Zemo Board Game
From Inquest Magazine in September 1998, here’s a scan of their Space Station Zemo game, preserved for posterity.
Highest Ground Science Fantasy Wargame
Highest Ground is a free science fantasy board game. The author writes:
The Highest Ground is a game that imagines a world with a very long period variable climate. Where an alien species has, approximately every 800 Earth years, collected a band of warriors from the most advanced warrior state on Earth at the time, and transported them to this planet. There they are to achieve dominance over the local population, grow a crop for the aliens, and, in the ensuing climactic holocaust, be almost wiped out and, therefore, not become a threat to the aliens.
At the time depicted by the game the have just bagged a new group of Earthlings and taken them to the planet. This group
is from 1979 and is a bunch of mercenaries on the losing side of an African civil war. They have been grabbed from a
soon to be terminally untenable position. They have been taken to the planet where the society that has grown up
around the survivors of previous recruiting drives consists of several warring states peopled by Medieval feudal kingdoms and knights, Roman Legions, pony riding barbarians and Egyptian pharaohs. The game finds the few mercenaries, having allied themselves with the European kingdoms, at war with the local Roman Empire.
Battleground Hostile Intentions Board Game
Battleground Hostile Intentions is a free board game for two players. The author writes:
It is the near future. A rebel coup has destabilized a small corner of the world, and border nations are moving in to grab whatever territory they can.
You command the forces of one of those nations. You have established a command center in a section of the country, but you face rivals for control of the area. Now you must build up your command center by erecting defenses and constructing facilities that train soldiers, manufacture weapons, tanks, aircraft and other vehicles.
Achieve victory by destroying your opponents’ command centers or capturing and holding critical objectives located throughout the area.