Libertadores 1810 - 1824 (2003)

Libertadores is a game system that allows players to have a fast but historically accurate simulation; the low counter density allows player to finish each battle in 2 hours maximum. Scales: battalion sized units for infantry, two squadrons for the cavalry and batteries for the artillery. 150 mts per hex and 1 hour per turn.

With Libertadores, Ludopress is trying to cover a vacuum that has lasted too many years: the campaigns and battles which decided the fate of a continent had never been simulated as a board wargame.

The Eight Battles included in Libertadores are:

• Ayacucho 1824. Gen. Sucre's victory that decided definitively the fate of the Peru.
• Boyacá 1819. Bolívar' decisive victory after their epic crossing of the Andes range.
• Carabobo 1821. The intervention of the British Legion decided the outcome of the battle.
• Viluma 1815. Crushing Royalist victory by one of their most brilliant generals, Pezuela, that prolonged for several years the Spanish sovereignty over the Upper Peru (What today is called Bolivia).
• Puente Calderón 1811. The rebellion is crushed initially in Mexico, which will not become independent until 1821.
• Maipo 1818. Victory of San Martín' army that secured for good the independence of Chile.
• Vicalpugio 1815. Royalist victory decided in extremis by an unexpected cavalry charge.
• Chacabuco 1817. The Royalist are defeated by San Martín and lose a good opportunity to finish off the army that the following year will free Chile.