The Butcher and the Bonnie Prince simulates the last and greatest of the Jacobite uprisings. It uses blocks for units to create fog of war and utilizes an easy combat system. One side plays the Jacobites, which include Scottish Highland and Lowland units as well as English and Welsh. The French will also provide units and could launch a full scale invasion...
Button Wars is a strategic table top tactical spaceship combat game. Players use button-like disks to represent various ships within a fleet and smaller plastic tokens to represent fighters and mech units, then take their fleet into battle against other players. The goal in each battle is to destroy as many ships as possible belonging to your enemies while...
A race of legendary, bioengineered warriors known as the Quo-Ti have long been the stuff of myth and legends. A topic of ancient lore for historians to explore and subject of horror stories told to the young children of a hundreds of civilizations for thousands of years. But the Quo-Ti are indeed real. Originally bioengineered by the great Ucharian...
By Fire and Sword – a historical wargame is the name of a battle system developed by the Wargamer Company. We wanted to create a realistic, playable and dynamic wargame which recreates the 17th century wars fought by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against Turkey, Muscovy, Sweden, Crimean Khanate and Cossacks. The period between 1640 and 1676, on which...
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...
By Fire and Sword is a historical wargame which allows you to recreate on a tabletop the numerous engagements that occurred in Central and Eastern Europe during the middle of the seventeenth century, whether reconstructing historical clashes or exploring “what if” scenarios. Command disciplined ranks of Swedish infantry, valiant moloitsy, fearsome Tatars...
This manual will allow you to play By Fire and Sword. Within these pages one will find a range of varied and dynamic scenarios: from reconnaissance patrols and raids, to pitched battles and ambushes. The scenarios are divided into two groups: Skirmish and Task Force, which determine the level of the game. In both Skirmish and Task Force sections,you will...
By Fire and Sword - is a realistic, playable and very dynamic wargame which recreates the numerous wars fought by in the Central and Eastern Europes during the second part of 17th century. Since its release (in 2011), we have supported it with many publications (both printed and and provided as free pdfs) and hundreds of miniature and terrain sets. We...
Each game in the HISTORICAL SERIES contains a trio of strategic simulations utilizing the same system which feature: Plastic pieces and metal markers; Three separate laminated mapsheets; Only eight pages of standard rules; Hidden force attributes, and; A unique correlation of leadership, morale, troop quality, and strength ratings. Emphasis is on...
“The position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power … Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided… but by iron and blood.” – Otto von Bismarck, Sept. 30, 1862 By Iron and Blood is a two-player wargame depicting the final, decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War. The...
By Jingo ! is a set of table-top rules designed to be used to represent the 2nd Anglo-Boer War. All the players play one side while the enemy is controlled in a more robotic way. In this game all players are Boer Generals who must defeat a powerfully arrayed Imperial force who are intent on driving you from your position and thus relieve a besieged...