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Is there any historical wargame where I can put Confederates against Janissaries? Or how about Aztecs against Spartans?

DBA covers the latter. It allows for games featuring armies all the way back from the very first known armies that exist to late Middle Ages.

William

I think Hail Caesar stretches from the Old Kingdom of Egypt to the WOTR.

Calbear wrote:
Is there any historical wargame where I can put Confederates against Janissaries? Or how about Aztecs against Spartans?

In a nutshell, "no... not quite".

The typical wargame ruleset operates in a specific time period, as differences in weapons technology (and tactics) make it essentially impossible to match up opponents from different eras.

The eras covered tend to get shorter after the advent of gunpowder as thats when technology starts to accellerate.

The broadest single era is usually the pre-gunpowder one of "Ancient & Medieval" up to around 1500AD - so Aztecs & Spartans are possible in almost any Ancients set.

The Janissary Corps started in 1363 and lasted until 1826, so in theory they are almost in the same dateline as the Confederate army and the Aztecs - but their weapons and tactics did change over that time.

A Medieval or Renaissance set would see early era Janissaries vs Aztecs, and perhaps a generic 19th Century wargame might cover both Confederates and Late Janissaries.

technically, SAGA
by how the game works, you have always the same core rules and mechanics and the timeframe specific rules are in the "Age of" books
so you can play from Ancients up to late Medieval (as those are the books released by now) although those are not balanced of course and the are specific rules don't apply to both sides

 themadaxeman wrote:

Calbear wrote:
Is there any historical wargame where I can put Confederates against Janissaries? Or how about Aztecs against Spartans?

In a nutshell, "no... not quite".

The typical wargame ruleset operates in a specific time period, as differences in weapons technology (and tactics) make it essentially impossible to match up opponents from different eras.

The eras covered tend to get shorter after the advent of gunpowder as thats when technology starts to accellerate.

The broadest single era is usually the pre-gunpowder one of "Ancient & Medieval" up to around 1500AD - so Aztecs & Spartans are possible in almost any Ancients set.

The Janissary Corps started in 1363 and lasted until 1826, so in theory they are almost in the same dateline as the Confederate army and the Aztecs - but their weapons and tactics did change over that time.

A Medieval or Renaissance set would see early era Janissaries vs Aztecs, and perhaps a generic 19th Century wargame might cover both Confederates and Late Janissaries.

Are there any wargames that represent colonial conflicts? Because there were definitely battles in history where one side had machine guns and the other side had spears.

Yes, lots of Colonial era rules.

Here are a few:
- The Men Who Would Be Kings
- Blackpowder
- The Sword and the Flame

There are others, that is just the top of my head.

If you're looking for an era-specific set of rules that has a great variety of miniature possibilitites, you might look at an Ancient (should allow Spartans vs Aztecs) or Colonial ruleset.

As has been mentioned, Saga lets you mix and match eras to a certain extent.

You can use a generic set like Age of Fantasy or DBA and input whatever units you want, but you're not really playing a historical game, you're essentially (though DBA players might argue otherwise) playing a fantasy game with historical minis.