War Galley is a game of naval warfare, which can be built and played using only matches. Players create their galleys out of matchboxes, and give them orders using order matches. Movement and firing are done simultaneously after orders are revealed. Enemy ships are attacked by dropping matches on the table, and hits are scored if a match points at the...
Charles Grant's The War Game is a classic set of rules for "old school" miniature wargaming. The rules first appeared as a series of articles in Tradition magazine, a UK production aimed at painters of miniature soldiers. The published version is a 191-page hardcover book. The era covered by the rules is vaguely the Seven Years War, generally known as the...
Following on from his father's great wargaming classic THE WAR GAME, Charles Grant Jr. has collated years of rule development, alteration and additions to make this, the updated and complete set of rules. 56 pages, A4 size, colour photographs throughout, card covers, including a separate laminated set of play sheets. The rules are designed for the XVIII...
This is the fourth in a series of mini campaign books. This volume, The Siege of La Crenoilis following a similar format to its predecessors. Table Top Teasers are scenarios for wargames by another name. The intention is to provide the players with a credible military setting and objectives, which allow for rather more than simply lining up two similar...
6th mini campaign book dealing with the fictitious wars of the Grand Duchy of Lorraine and the Vereinigte Freie Städte (VFS). This campaign is completely different from those described in previous books. The previous books have led the readers and players through number of set piece scenarios. The actions that took place in this campaign were not...
Having covered some relatively small actions in Volume 1 of Refighting History Volume 2 examines some larger battles. The battles in question come from the War of the Austrian Succession and more specifically the First Silesian War. The first battle is something of a wargame classic - Mollwitz. The Grant’s first Mollwitz wargame is coved with an excerpt...
Volume Three of Refighting History follows on from Volume Two continuing to examine and refight the battles of the War of the Austrian Succession. There are two more of Frederick’s big battles. These are Hohenfriedberg and Soor, each divided into two games. There is in addition a rather unusual game featuring the attack on Frederick’s camp by Nádasdy and...
Volume Four returns to the Seven Years War. The battles covered are all from the year 1760. Some are major battles: Liegnitz, Strehla and Torgau. In addition two actions have been selected from the western theatre. While the campaigns in the east involve Prussian, Austria and Russia, those in the west provide an interesting variation. With France as the...
The battles, Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde and Malplaquet, are known collectively as Marlbourgh’s Big Four. In this book, after a brief introduction to the War of the Spanish Succession each battle is covered in four sections: The Background - providing the context to the battle. The Battle - provides an account of the historical battle. In this section a...
Refighting History: Volume 6 covers five battles from the Seven Years War. The four-part format for each game is unchanged. The background is briefly described, then a detailed account of the actual action with orders of battle, consideration on how to wargame the battle and finally the wargame itself. The five battles covered range from the relatively...