Billy Yank is a miniatures wargame ruleset for the American Civil War. for 20/25mm minis Sequence of play: Orders phase Rally phase Command phase Action phase (charges, melees, maneuvers, stationary units fires...) in motion units firing phase Scale: Base unit is the regiment (~400 men / ~20minis) 1 step (2.5cm) = ~50m 1 mini = ~20 men 1 game turn = 15 min...
Bireme & Galley covers naval combat from ancient times up until just before ships started mounting cannon (the subtitle is "Naval Warfare, Egypt to Lepanto"). The 99-page rulebook includes 31 pages describing the various kinds of warships in common use in ancient and medieval times (with many drawings), 12 pages of ship data tables, and the remainder the...
A set of medium to large scale wargames rules for the American Civil War period 1861 to 1865. Units are organized into Brigades and commanded at Divisional level for the Confederation and at Corp level for the Union. A very simple command ordering system allows a fast flowing game to unfold right before your eyes. This is achieved through a command...
Miniature Wargame Rules for the Second Schleswig War, modified from Furia Francese: Rules for Wargaming the Franco-Austrian War of 1859, a 1991 FreiKorps publication. These rules are intended to allow the historical miniatures gamer to recreate battles of the war that took place between Denmark and the German Allies (Austria and Prussia) during 1864. Known...
Avalon Hill's (AH) Bismarck 1979/80 edition, designed by Jack Greene, is a totally different game from the AH 1962 edition designed by Lindsley Schutz and Charles Roberts. The game centered around the hunt for the KMS Bismarck and the KMS Prinz Eugen in mid-1941. The game has some similarities to game Battleship, with both players having a hidden map-board...
With the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, the tension between the Northern and Southern States boiled over into outright hostility. Birthed in the South, the Confederacy fought to maintain its independency whilst Northern troops headed south in a bid to preserve the union. Four years of hellish fighting ensued, consuming the nation. It was a war the...
Fought over the first three days of July in 1863, the battle for Gettysburg proved to be the high tide of the Confederacy and the turning point of the American Civil War. The Confederate army of North Virginia, under General Lee, and fresh from victory over the Union at Chancellorsville, assaulted the Army of the Potomac under Union General Meade at the...
Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican Tyrant, plunged Europe back into war once again by leading an emboldened French army against a resolute England and her allies. The Hundred Days campaign raged, witnessing numerous battles both before and after that decisive day at Waterloo. Authored by Adrian McWalter (Albion Triumphant Volumes 1 & 2; A Clash of Eagles)...
After Napoleon entered Paris and started the Hundred Days campaign, King William II of Prussia recalled Blücher from his retirement in Silesia and set him the task of facing down the upstart Frenchman. He was placed in command of the Army of the Lower Rhine and quickly marched west to join the Anglo-Dutch allies, hoping to consolidate their forces....
Sunday, 18 June 1815; on an unassuming rain-soaked field in Belgium; two great generals of the age finally met in battle; ending fifteen years of continuous warfare on the continent, and bringing to an end the reign of Napoleon. The Battle of Waterloo, arguable the most famous battle in all military history, provides more than a fitting subject for our...
Sunday, 18 June 1815; on an unassuming rain-soaked field in Belgium; two great generals of the age finally met in battle. The climactic clash of the Hundred Days campaign wrought the end of around twenty years of continuous warfare on the continent, and with it an end to the reign of Napoleon. The Battle of Waterloo, arguably the most famous battle in all...