1871 fast-play rules for the Franco-Prussian War-- the latest in Bruce Weigle’s popular “1870” series of rules for the mid-19th century European wars of transition. While 1871 features the same tried-and-true game mechanics as his earlier 1870-1859-1864-1866 rules, the fire combat, charge/melee, and morale sections have been radically streamlined –...
From the publisher: Welcome to 1879! The British Empire, passing through an interdimensional portal, has found a new world, the Gruv, chock-full of resources and land to be exploited. In the process, though, they've run headlong into the Samsut, descendants of ancient Babylonians who've been living there for over three thousand years. Now the might of the...
18th century GAME OF WAR wargame rules are designed for 25mm or 28mm scale figures with 16 figures per infantry battalion, 4 figures per cavalry squadron, and artillery units of one model cannon and up to 4 gunners. They are intended to be in the ‘old school’ stream of wargaming popularised by the likes of Donald Featherstone and Terry Wise - which means...
The book contains an introduction into 18th Century Warfare including both land campaigns and naval campaigns. The land campaigns include information on troop types, weapons, formations and battlefield tactics. The Naval includes information on the ships armament, naval strategies and fighting tactics. The unique system of Decision Games is explained...
This campaign is set in Silesia part of modern day Poland in the winter of 1741 and at the beginning of the second year of the conflict popularly known as the First Silesian War which later expanded into the wider conflict known as the War of the Austrian Succession. It attempts to re-enact the attempt by the Austrian army commanded by Marshal Niepperg to...
This Book contains 3 standalone land campaign modules. The Nish Campaign, 1737. Austrians v Ottoman Turks. This campaign is set in Serbia in the late summer of 1737 during the Austro-Russian-Turkish War of 1736-39. It attempts to re-create the invasion of Ottoman Serbia by a Habsburg Imperial army led by Marshal Count Friedrich von Seckendorf and its...
The siege rules make use of the authors Decision Games system which enables a siege to be conducted in terms of Stages as outlined by the great French military engineer Sebastion de Vauban. The system uniquely and realistically enables the timing of the advancing stages of a siege to run sequentially with the land campaign and along the timetables set by...
The Land rules contain comprehensive standing orders for each troop type and battle orders assigned to each commander. Dependent upon the circumstances encountered during a game these force players and units to act historically. The casualty system uses HIT dice which translate immediately into battlefield and campaign casualties. After battle pursuits and...
The naval campaign The Caribbean uses the unique Decision Games system and is based on the campaigns of 1781 and 1782 between the French Admiral Comte Francois de Grasse and the British Admirals Sir George Rodney, Sir Samuel Hood, Sir Francis S. Drake and Thomas Graves during the American War of Independence. It includes three naval Decision Games....
This book contains the Table Top Rules for Naval Battles. The rules are suitable for both fleet actions and also small one on one encounters. It includes an introduction to 18th century naval actions and tactics. The battles are fought on hexagons with fleets manoeuvred with a system using specially designed order cards which players are invited to...
The Great War is usually portrayed and imagined with the blasted landscapes of the static, trench warfare that emerged late in 1914 and persisted far into the conflict. However, while it is fair to recognize that much of WWI was characterized by this stalemate, it is also fair to point out that the early and later parts of the war were witness to...
In a short few years of unrelenting carnage following the descent into world war, the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires collapsed into ruin and passed from the march of time. Plan 19 was the name of the Russian operational war plan and, from its inception in 1910, evolved into a strategy that demanded both offesnsive action against Germany and...