Lives

One series per figure

Each life is a series of episodes that run in real time. You give the orders, the hours pass, and afterwards you find out what really happened. 16 lives, 1 playable now.

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Napoleon Bonaparte · 1793 – 1821

Campaigns

From an unknown artillery officer before Toulon to an exile on Saint Helena. Give the orders, feel the hours pass, and find out whether you did what Napoleon did.

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Antiquity

Julius Caesar

Rubicon

In preparation · 58 – 44 BC

Gaul, the river, the Ides of March.

Actium

In preparation · 48 – 30 BC

A queen of Egypt, two Roman lovers and a sea battle that decides who rules the Mediterranean.

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Middle Ages and early modern

Joan of Arc

The Maid

In preparation · 1429 – 1431

Orléans, Reims, Rouen.

Gloriana

In preparation · 1558 – 1603

A queen, a court full of plots, and an armada on the horizon.

The Silent

In preparation · 1568 – 1584

A prince against an empire, a city starving behind its walls, and the sea let in across the land.

Broadside

In preparation · 1666 – 1676

The greatest admiral of the Dutch Republic, a chain across an English river and a fleet that can be seen from London.

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18th and 19th century

Louis XVI

Varennes

In preparation · 20 – 25 June 1791

A king in disguise, a heavy coach on the road east, and a postmaster who looks at a face he has seen on a banknote.

The Wire

In preparation · 1861 – 1865

A president in the War Department's telegraph office, waiting for news from battles he cannot see.

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20th century

Ernest Shackleton

Endurance

In preparation · 1914 – 1916

A ship crushed in the ice, twenty-eight men on a frozen sea, and a lifeboat journey across the worst ocean on earth.

The Salt March

In preparation · March – May 1930

Twenty-four days on foot to the sea, to pick up a handful of salt that the Empire says belongs to it.

Fireside

In preparation · 1933 – 1945

A broken economy, a world at war, and a president who talks to the nation from beside the fire.

Iron Winter

Seen through the eyes of Georgy ZhukovIn preparation · 1941 – 1945

Moscow in the snow, Stalingrad in ruins, and a general who has to tell Stalin what he does not want to hear.

Valkyrie

The plot against Adolf HitlerIn preparation · 20 July 1944

A bomb in a briefcase, and the hours in which nobody in Berlin knows whether Hitler is alive.

Quarantine

In preparation · October 1962

Photographs of missiles in Cuba, thirteen days, and advisers who want to bomb before it is too late.

Apollo 13

In preparation · April 1970

An explosion two hundred thousand miles from Earth, three astronauts, and four days to bring them home.

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