Szczekociny 1794 depicts one of the battles from the Kościuszko Uprising, an important event in Polish history. This particular battle historically was a Polish defeat suffered at the hands of the allied armies of Russia and Prussia, but players can now recreate this conflict to see if a different outcome would also be possible. Szczekociny 1794 is a hex...
Description from the publisher: The Table Battles system is a light battle game that recreates battles throughout human history with broad strokes and an emphasis on playability. Players roll and allocate dice to Unit cards, with each card accepting specific die results or dice combinations. On a later turn, those dice are removed to activate the Unit and...
The fifth expansion to Tom Russell's popular Table Battles series recreates six battles - two from the Nine Years War and four from the War of the Spanish Succession - the age of Eugene and Marlborough, Villars and Luxembourg. Unique to this set is the introduction of a "link" - a relationship between two formations that mitigates casualties. Some...
Great Battles of Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine is the sixth expansion to Amabel Holland's Table Battles, taking as its subject the not-exactly illustrious career of its namesake. Oh, the six battles in this set are "great" battles, including some of the most famous engagements of the eighteenth century. But they're not famous because of Charles, who...
"Tarleton's Quarter!" is a game about the British attempt to win the American Revolution by invading the Southern colonies, The game covers the period from the British landing in Georgia in 1778 to October of 1781 (the historical end of the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis' army). The object of British efforts in the South was to bring the...
Terra Incognita: Company Level Colonial Miniatures Rules 1510-1870 Terra Incognita blends historical events with a fast and fun company level miniatures rules. Re-fight the struggle for conquest and exploration for the Americas or other parts of the world. Company level rules designed for 1510-1870 action Battles resolved within 2-3 hours Can be used with...
In the midst of the French Revolution, the government was organized around the Committee of Public Safety, the Committee of General Security, and the Revolutionary Tribunal. But the parliamentarians of the Mountain, the Plain, and the Gironde were politically divided and threatened by military interventions from European monarchies. Fear of a return to the...
A small-unit skirmish miniature wargaming system for the black powder period. It is designed to not only put you in command of the weapons and troops of the period, but into the historical tactical situation of an officer. Your presence on the battlefield will be the difference between your forces moving forward in good order and engaging the enemy, or in...
A short set of miniatures rules for refighting the battles of the 1745-5 Jacobite Rebellion, published in Wargames Illustrated 134. These rules are developments of the author's previous ruleset for the mid C18 but with period focus on the '45, so feature modifiers specific to the campaign, e.g. the effect of the 'Highland' charge. These rules are basing...
Background: When Charles II of Spain died in November 1700 the both mentally and physically weak king had no heir to the crown. His kingdoms included not only Spain but both parts of the Low Countries, Italy and colonies in the Philipines and the Americas. Now two dynasties claimed the Spanish throne, the French Bourbons and the Austrian Habsburgs. Charles...
Before Hitler. Before Napoleon. Another European strong-man invaded Russia… and came to grief. He was Charles XII of Sweden. In later years, they would call it “The Great Northern War.” Whether the blame can tagged to Swedish expansionism or Peter the Great’s desire for that warm-water capital city and “window on Europe,” the clash was a seemingly...