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Information

Designed By: Mark Herman
Richard H. Berg
Published By: GMT Games
Mfg suggested # of Players: 1 - 2 players
User suggested # of Players:
Best with 2 players
Recommended with 1, 2 players
(4 voters) [poll]
Playing Time: 240 Minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages: 12 and up
User Suggested Ages: (no votes yet)
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Language Dependence: (no votes yet)
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Category: Wargame
Ancient
Mechanics: Hex-and-Counter
Dice Rolling
Simulation
Other Names: N/A

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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 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

Expansion Modules:

For further scenario information look at "More Information".

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0 Q&A Great Battles of Alexander rules
Q&A Alexander.doc
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.
0 Official Alexander Errata and Rules Clarifications Sept. 2008
Alexander 4th Edition Errata & Clarif Sep 2008.pdf
If any conflicts with "Rules Questions Answered" this errata trumps. RQA still has more clarifications.
0 traduction française
THE GREAT BATTLES OF.doc
The real life in french for GboA
1 Rules Questions Answered
AlexRulesQuestions.rtf
An unofficial faq.
0 GBoA Revisions
GBoAlexP.pdf
Takes the fantasy out of the rules and puts the real world back in.
0 Revised Terrain Effects
GBoAlexTECp.pdf
Fixes things like crossing major rivers with the same ease as crossing clear terrain.
2 shortrules.pdf
shortrules.pdf
Condensed short rules V1.1 (ADMIN: please replace the existing file)
0 turnorder.pdf
turnorder.pdf
turn and order number chart
0 shortrules.pdf
shortrules.pdf
Condensed basic rules
1 Balancing the Granicus.doc
Balancing the Granicus.doc
Balancing the Granicus--The Memnon Plan
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