Bloody Kingdom is a set of wargames rules designed for the Civil Wars of Britain, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Bloody Kingdom uses the same game mechanics as Father Tilly - although with several important differences. Players can fight battles at two different scales, either large battles with numerous regiments per side or smaller lower scale engagements...
This 2 players wargame will be included in VaeVictis magazine. It covers the event of summer 1618 during which the Bohemian parliament faced the power of the Habsbourg emperor. Armies will face each others to battle for the control of Bohemia and the competition of influence will also take place in the different regional Diets to join a side. Each player...
A spin off from Martin Wallace's design God's Playground features updated artwork and a new rule set for four players. The title is borrowed from book by Norman Davies. The game itself is set in Poland. It covers the period from about 1400 to 1790, which is covered by volume 1 of the two books. From BGN: In GP, players represent families of Polish nobles...
Breitenfeld is one of the Thirty Years War Quadrigames. This one appeared in Strategy & Tactics magazine #55, March/April 1976. From the introduction: The Thirty Years War game system is an operational simulation of warfare in Europe during the fist half of the seventeenth century. Each game in the system is based on one of the more significant and...
(from Decision Games' website:) Breitenfeld was the first major clash involving the Swedish army of Gustavus Adolphus. Gustavus had adopted the advances of Maurice of Nassau, using smaller, thinner formations bringing mobility and flexibility to battlefields dominated by massive blocks of musket-ringed pikemen. But he faced a larger, more experienced...
Buccaneers of the Americas is a solitaire action roleplaying game set in the "Golden Age of Buccaneering", specifically in and between the years 1650 and 1700, when privateers and pirates, known under dozens of similar names in several different languages, cruised the waters of the Caribbean Sea, taking prizes and sacking cities with the often overt...
BACKGROUND: By Fire and Sword is semi-historical simulation of the Thirty Years War. The game begins just after the Bohemian Revolt where the very Catholic Ferdinand II (future Holy Roman Emperor) of Austria was elected to the Thrones of Bohemia and Hungary. Many Protestants felt they would lose their religious rights and a small revolt occurred. This...
Campaigns of Montrose: A Year of Living Dangerously, 1644-1645. This is a two-player game. It depicts James Graham, the Marquis of Montrose, and his legendary string of victories over the Scottish Covenanter government during the First English Civil War (1642-1646), that would later go down in a crushing defeat. The Royalist player must recruit a Highland...