The Great Battles of Alexander: Deluxe Edition (2003)

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 components include:

• 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

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

The BGG entry for the original game can be found here: The Great Battles of Alexander

For further scenario information look at "More Information".

Other scenarios:

• Marathon, 490 BC, from C3i #1
• Great Battles of Epaminondas featuring the great Theban General, from C3i #7
• Great Battles of the Achaemenidae, Cunaxa 401 BC and Plataea 479 BC, from C3i #9. The counters for this Module were inserted in C3i #10. Click here to download them.
• Philip the Great Alexander's father, from C3i #13
• Alexander in Italy a "what if", from C3i #5 (SPQR needed)
• Battle of Qadesh, Egypt vs the Hittites, 1300BC, by Dave Townsend (?)
• Battles of Delium and Mantinea, Hoplite battles, 424 and 418 BC, by Frederic Bey (translated by Dave Townsend) , from Vae Victis 13
• Battle of Crannon, the ending of the Greek rebellion 322 BC, by Claudio Grassi (translated by Fabio Bernardini)
• Battle of Cappadocia, 1st Diadochoi War 320 BC, by Claudio Grassi (translated by Fabio Bernardini)