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Alternate History

Alternate History in Board Games

Alternate history is a fascinating theme in board games that captivates players by reimagining historical events. This theme allows players to explore what if scenarios, diverging from the historical record to craft unique and engaging gameplay experiences. Following are key aspects of alternate history themes in board games:

Appeal of Alternate History

Creative Exploration: Engaging with history in new ways.
Strategic Depth: Impact of divergent events on gameplay strategies.
Educational Value: Stimulating interest in real historical events.

Manifestations of the Theme

Historical Divergence Points: Games often pivot around specific moments where history is altered.
Cultural Mashups: Blending different historical periods or cultures.
Technological Speculation: Incorporating anachronistic tech or advancements.

Examples of Alternate History Board Games

Twilight Struggle: Cold War what-ifs.
Scythe: Post-WWI with mechs.
Terraforming Mars: Future history of colonizing Mars.

Player Engagement

The alternate history theme excels in fostering a deeply immersive experience, as players get to rewrite history and explore the consequences of their actions against a familiar, yet different historical backdrop.

Jeux publiés par ADC Blackfire Entertainment à thématique Alternate History

Strategy Game à thématique Alternate History

Dia De Los Muertos Tuck Box

Conflicting Legends

Troyes - The Ladies of Troyes Expansion

3000 Scoundrels

Wolfenstein - The Board Game

Last Front - The Strategy Card Game

Front Line - No Komrades (2016 Edition)

51st State (2nd Edition)

El Alamein (Japanese Photograph Edition)

Roll Through the Ages - The Iron Age (Gryphon Bookshelf Edition)

Peloponnes Card Game

Citadels (2016 Edition, Z-Man Logo)

Olympus Loonacy

Fog & Friction - Western Front

Jeux à thématique Miniatures et Alternate History

Jeux utilisants Grid Movement à thématique Alternate History

Jeux utilisants Simulation à thématique Alternate History

"Pax Renaissance 2nd Edition" is a strategic board game where you become a Renaissance banker, influencing the rise and fall of European empires through finance and intrigue. Your objective is to mold the course of history, striving for victory by way...

In Pax Viking each player represents a Jarl, a powerful leader in Norse culture. Your family has grown strong over the centuries, and it is now at a pivotal point in history where it has the opportunity to unite many of the Jarldoms into one state.Settle...

March 1987: The hopes raised by Mikhail Gorbachev's reform efforts in the Soviet Union and nuclear disarmament talks with the United States are suddenly crushed when a military coup removes his regime from power. Hidden behind a disinformation campaign...

This expansion to the critically acclaimed For Glory lets you brawl with up to four players, or test your mettle against the Ludus Magnus in solo mode.The Champions Expansion introduces upgradeable Champion cards, new hybrid cards, and a new blessing...

Jeux à thématique Fantasy et Alternate History

Vampire The Masquerade - Heritage: Heritage

Kingdom Defenders

Loka - The Card Game

Tournament at Avalon

Doomtown Reloaded: Doomtown - Reloaded

Doomtown: Weird West Edition

Jeux à thématique Mythology et Alternate History

In the center of a vast, but secret forest stands the Arch-Oak - a majestic tree that was already a sapling when the world was still young. It is even said that from its wood, the ancients crafted the first humans and animals.In Oak, you are the leader...

They came to this planet, and they chose you. Their wisdom and resources uplifted you and allowed you to prosper. Having mastered their ways of culture, science, and warfare, you are now ready to take on a new challenge. Under the watchful eye of the...

Anunnaki: Dawn of the Gods is a 4x Eurogame by Simone Luciani and Danilo Sabia, set in an ancient dystopian past, where mythology and science-fiction come together. Each player represents a different House whose rulers are viewed by terrestrial population...

Amun-Re: The Card Game is an auction and development game, in which clever hand and wealth management is the key to victory!• Use your wealth to acquire and develop your provinces• Remember to make offerings to Amun-Re for your crops to be fruitful!•...

Jeux publiés par Maldito Games à thématique Alternate History

You've claimed the land. Now let's get to work; there is a kingdom to build!Kingdom Legacy is a unique solo campaign full of exploration delight and adventure: Discover new cards and learn how to use them to your advantage and how to survive hardships...

The Nippon Expansion adds a new challenge to Blitzkrieg!What if the Axis coalition had won WW II and Germany invaded and occupied the USA? And…. what if japan had turned on its former ally and invaded German-held USA? With the help of Godzilla?The Nippon...

Germany`s premier gaming magazine include a bonus card (#41) for the hit game SCYTHE inside this month! Also includes an interview with Reiner Knizia and an in-depth look at Mystic Vale.

When Elsa von Frühlingfeld used recently isolated uranium to heat up a jar of water and then used the steam to power the engine in a process she called "atomization," a new era has dawned. Her device, called Nucleum, made Saxony the hub of European science...

Jeux publiés par Tabletop Boardgames à thématique Alternate History

Incursion: Blitzhund

Incursion: Gretel Von X

Incursion: German Starter Set

Incursion: Droptrooper Reinforcements

Incursion: Droptrooper Starter Set

Jeux conçus par David Turczi à thématique Alternate History

Imperium: Horizons

Formidable adversaries are arrayed against you. Your people stand ready. History beckons.In your hands lies the destiny of one of most storied peoples of history. Under constant threat of attack, you must conquer new lands, oversee dramatic scientific...

très positif, 88 %

Alternate History

Deck, Bag, and Pool Building

End Game Bonuses

Hand Management

Jeux publiés par Draco Ideas à thématique Alternate History

Scope Stalingrad is a 2 to 4 player game, set in the Battle of Stalingrad, where players take on the role of sniper teams from both sides.The objective of the game is to eliminate the enemy snipers or enemy troops for a total value of points depending...

SCOPE Panzer is a tank combat card game set in the European theater of WWII. One player leads a squad of American tanks, which faces a squad of German tanks commanded by the other player, in a battle of ambush tactics and close-range encounters.

A vendetta spanning decades reaches its terrible and bloody crescendo!Suleiman the Magnificent's 30,000 strong armada descends on the 500 beleaguered Knights of St John and the defending people of Malta, with the express purpose of wiping them from existence...

Jeux publiés par GaGa Games à thématique Alternate History

Stalingrad, 1942. Before you awaits a grueling conflict in this cornerstone battleground. As the bullets and bombs tear the city asunder, only through wits and valor can you seize the cornerstone of the entire Eastern Front and change the course of history...

Twilight Struggle: Red Sea - Conflict in the Horn of Africa is a two-player, stand-alone, card-driven game that builds on the award-winning Twilight Struggle.The year is 1974, and the Soviet Union and the United States have been locked in a life-or-death...

Cheese is served! Of course the mice want to stack on a piece, but the cat is ready and the dog is waiting. Luckily, the innkeeper is there to keep order!Roll the dice and count the wedges of cheese. But be careful, because each character changes the...

Jeux à thématique Political et Alternate History

What would YOU do with a Time Machine? Would you stop the sinking of the Titanic? Prevent the assassination of JFK? Kill Hitler before WWII? These are just a few of the possibilities in Chrononauts, the award-winning card game of time travel. To win...

During the 20th century, the creation of a single world government became possible. You oversee a subdivision in a mysterious and powerful society - the "Committee." Its goal is to become that government.Deep State: New World Order is a strategy game...

Play the Cold War in 13 minutes.13 Minutes: The Cuban Missile Crisis is a card-driven microgame with tough decisions. Playing as either Kennedy or Khrushchev, your aim is to exit the Cuban Missile Crisis as the most powerful superpower. During the game...

Time travel moves into another century with Early American Chrononauts, the long-awaited prequel to Chrononauts. Everything you always wanted to do with a time machine: change stuff, collect stuff, save the universe ... now in the 1800's. Like the original...

Jeux publiés par Lumenaris à thématique Alternate History

Jeux à thématique Science Fiction et Alternate History

Resurgence

No one really knows what triggered the One Day War between the superpowers, but a single day is all it took to end the Before World. After the governments collapsed, leaderless groups of survivors huddled in the ruins of once great cities. The climate...

principalement positif, 74 %

60 to 120 minutes

Solo / Solitaire Game

Science Fiction

Alternate History

Deck, Bag, and Pool Building

End Game Bonuses

Secret Unit Deployment

Different Worker Types

Jeux publiés par Compass Games à thématique Alternate History

Blue Water Navy covers the war at sea, air, close-ashore and low-earth orbit from the Kola Peninsula in Northern Russia to the Mediterranean Sea and West over the Atlantic Ocean to the United States and Cuba. The game models the full order of battle...

Blue Water Navy covers the war at sea, air, close-ashore and low-earth orbit from the Kola Peninsula in Northern Russia to the Mediterranean Sea and West over the Atlantic Ocean to the United States and Cuba. The game models the full order of battle...

The Third World War, Designer Signature Edition, marks one of the largest and ambitious game undertakings to date covering not one but FOUR true wargaming classics by Frank Chadwick, faithfully remastered and updated with this all-new, deluxe edition...

NATO, Designer Signature Edition marks the return of a true wargaming classic by Bruce Maxwell. NATO simulates a potential NATO/Warsaw Pact conflict in Central Europe during the Cold War years of the 1980’s. First published in 1983, this game was Victory...

Jeux illustrés par JJ Ariosa à thématique Alternate History

Neolithic

Neolithic is a 2-player game of tableau-building and worker placement comprised entirely of multi-use cards! Use the options available to you to hunt, gather, forage, innovate, and more. Only one village will become the become the most advanced culture...

Alternate History

Hand Management

Worker Placement

Jeux utilisants Turn Order: Time Track à thématique Alternate History

Fancy Feathers

Fill your pheasantry with the most beautiful pheasants in this fast card game. Twelve animal types offer you a lot of exciting games!Fancy Feathers works with up to six players, but to play with more than two people you need additional copies of the ...

Alternate History

Jeux publiés par Angry Lion Games à thématique Alternate History

The ashes from the first Great War still darken the snow in 1920s Europa. The capitalistic city-state known simply as "The Factory," which fueled the war with heavily armored mechs, has closed its doors, drawing the attention of several nearby countries...

Mankind has long been confined to travel by land and sea, but a new technology has emerged from the greatest minds in Eastern Europa: airships. These steam-driven behemoths sail freely across the sky, aiding their empire's expansion through innovation...

While empires rise and fall in Eastern Europa, the rest of the world takes notice. Two distant factions, Albion and Togawa, send emissaries to scout the land and employ their own distinct styles of conquering.This expansion to Scythe adds 2 new factions...

Jeux publiés par CoolMiniOrNot (CMON) à thématique Alternate History

Jeux développés par Patrick Gebhardt à thématique Alternate History

Red Strike

Red Strike is a war game simulating a hypothetical clash between NATO and Warsaw Pact (WP) armed forces in Summer 1989. It covers operational land, air and sea warfare in Central Europe and the Northern Atlantic, while also keeping an eye on the strategic...

massivement positif, 95 %

Alternate History

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