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. Boyaca 1819. Bolivar' 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 Calderon 1811. The rebellion is crushed initially in Mexico, which will not become independent until 1821. Maipo 1818. Victory of San Martin' 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 Martin and lose a good opportunity to finish off the army that the following year will free Chile. - BoardGameGeek