Command and Colors System

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The Command and Colors system is a simplified wargaming system designed by Richard Borg. Common elements of all Command and Colors games are a deck of Command Cards, which can be classified as Section cards and Tactics cards, and Battle Dice. In the Command and Colors System the playing field is divided into a center section and a right and left flank. Section cards are used to allow the ordering of unit(s) occupying one or more sections. Tactics cards are also available to allow special attacks. Another identifying feature of the system is the use of battle dice to resolve individual battles.

Section Card

Tactics Card

Battle Dice

Games that use the Command and Colors system

2000		Battle Cry published by Avalon Hill Games, Inc.
2004		Memoir '44 published by Days of Wonder
2006		Commands & Colors: Ancients published by GMT Games
2006		BattleLore published by Days of Wonder and Fantasy Flight Games
2010		Commands & Colors: Napoleonics published by GMT Games
2010		Battle Cry: 150th Civil War Anniversary Edition republished by Avalon Hill Games, Inc.
2012		Samurai Battles published by Zvezda
2013		BattleLore: Second Edition published by Fantasy Flight Games
2015		The Great War published by PSC Games
2017		Commands & Colors Tricorne: The American Revolution published by Compass Games
2018		Commands & Colors: Medieval published by GMT Games
2019		Red Alert: Space Fleet Warfare published by PSC Games
2020		Commands & Colors Tricorne: Jacobite Rising published by Compass Games
2021		Commands & Colors: Samurai Battles published by GMT Games

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