Strategy & Tactics #330: Mediterranean Empires – The Struggle for the Middle Sea

Strategy & Tactics #330: Mediterranean Empires – The Struggle for the Middle Sea is a magazine-format issue from Strategy & Tactics Press / Decision Games covering the struggle for the Western and Central Mediterranean from 1281 to 1350 AD.

Product Type: Magazine-format issue with included wargame.

The included game, Mediterranean Empires: The Struggle for the Middle Sea, 1281–1350 AD, is a low-to-intermediate complexity two-player strategic wargame. One player controls the French / Angevin forces and their allies, while the other controls Aragon and its allies.

The map is divided into geopolitical areas across the Western and Central Mediterranean. Units move from area to area as players fight for influence, territory, and control during the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. There are seven game turns, each representing a decade, with units representing roughly 500 to 2,000 men.

Components include: one 22×34 inch map and 176 counters.