Ages:	-- and up
Players:	1 - 4
Playing Time:	240 mins

 

 

The Great Battles of Alexander Expanded 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 Expanded 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!

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

COMPONENTS

Five and one-half full-color two-sided countersheets
Five full-color double-sided 22x34" mapsheets
32-page Rules Manual
36-page Tyrant rules Manual and Scenario Book
3 x 24-page Scenario Books
Three 8.5x11" cards showing game charts & tables
One 10-sided die
EXPANSIONS: Diadochoi, Phalanx, Raphia, and Tyrant