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Year Published
1995
# of Players
1 − 2
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 2 players
Recommended with 1, 2 players
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Playing Time
240 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
12 and up
User Suggested Ages
10 and up
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Language Dependence
Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet
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The Great Battles of Alexander: Deluxe Edition
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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!

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

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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

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Product Code: 9501
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1 Vassal Module
This Module includes 2 mini battles from the Vae Victis magazine: Delium 424 B.C. and Mantinea 418 B.C.
2012-01-13
2 Errata: October 2008
Errata: October 2008
2010-12-29
3 Q&A Alexander part 2
After the first Q&A with Alan Ray, 'some more' questions popped up. These are in the Q&A part 2.
2009-07-09
2 Tyrant Module Errata
Errata for Tyrant Module
2009-04-28
1 Q&A Great Battles of Alexander rules
This file contains a whole bunch of questions I asked Alan Ray, one of the codesigners of this game. I did those in conjunction with the the ones about Conquest of Gaul, so several questions and answers in the Q&A I uploaded with that game, apply to Alexander as well.
2008-09-03
0 traduction française
The real life in french for GboA
2008-02-08
1 Rules Questions Answered
An unofficial faq.
2007-11-05
2 GBoA Revisions
Takes the fantasy out of the rules and puts the real world back in.
2007-10-21
2 Revised Terrain Effects
Fixes things like crossing major rivers with the same ease as crossing clear terrain.
2007-10-21
4 shortrules.pdf
Condensed short rules V1.1 (ADMIN: please replace the existing file)
2006-07-04
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