Buckskins and Rangers: Skirmish Rules for Gaming the French Indian Wars társasjáték

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Buckskins and Rangers is a historical miniature game that enables and encourages the reader to recreate various battles and skirmishes of the French Indian Wars, while using 28mm model soldiers on their own tabletop battlefield. This game has been set up as a skirmish game in which players are assigned a unit of figures under the command of an officer, NCO or hero. Each figure is given a random number of actions that they can perform in their turn while dealing with the fundamentals of warfare such as command, movement, effects of small arms fire and artillery and the role that morale plays when the stresses of battle commence. Numerous examples are included throughout the rule set and several advanced rule sections are also included allowing players to tailor games to their own preferences when using the various scenarios included or when designing their own game scenarios.
Buckskins and Rangers rule set also includes the following items to make this rule set a complete package as well as providing the reader with two excellent sources (Galloping Major Wargames and Acheson Creations) for gathering their some of their forces and providing excellent tabletop terrain:

1 Complete Rule Set
1 Scenario Supplement with 12 French Indian War Scenarios
Scenario 1: Raid on Pickawillany, 1752

Scenario 2: The Jumonville Glen Affair, 1754
Scenario 3: Battle of Fort Necessity, 1754

Scenario 4: Raid in the Ohio Region, 1755
Scenario 5: Battle of Monongahela, 1755

Scenario 6: Battle on Snowshoes, 1757
Scenario 7: The Long March From Fort William Henry, 1757

Scenario 8: The Attack on German Flatts, 1757
Scenario 9: The Battle of Bloody Creek, 1757

Scenario 10: The Raid on St. Francis, 1759
Scenario 11: The St. Francis Raid Pursuit, 1759

Scenario 12: The Battle of Signal Hill, 1762

1 Reproducible Detailed Game Summary Chart
2 Clear Artillery Templates (Reproducible)
3 Reproducible Figure Information Sheets
320 Coloured Figure Cards

—description from publisher