Rules include cavalry charges, cavalry pistols for skirmishing or for close combat, and artillery grazing fire. Units are infantry battalions, cavalry regiments and artillery batteries. Victory goes to the player that can coordinate the actions of his wings in the heat of battle. Each has a commander and an order that limits the types of actions that units of that wing may perfrom. The Musket & Pike Battle Series emphasizes Command and Control. The stalwart Bavarians with their excellent cavalry and love of the entrenchment battle the veteran Weimarian cavalry corps. The Spanish tercios face the superb French gendarmes.

Two of the greatest captains of French history - Louis de Bourbon, the Grand Conde and Henri de la Tour, the vicomte de Turenne - take the field to set the stage for Le Grande Siecle - the Golden Age of France under Louis XIV, the Sun KingĪfter taking on the English Civil War in This Accursed Civil War and the combined arms tactics of the Swedes and Imperials in Sweden Fights On, the Musket & Pike Battle Series looks at the French, Spanish, and Bavarian armies. This volume features the rise of the French Army after their entry into the Thirty Years War in 1635. This is the third volume from the award-winning Musket & Pike Battles Series detailing 17th Century warfare, often known as the Dawn of Modern Warfare. Under the Lily Banners is a tactical battle game featuring five battles from the Thirty years War. Great Battles of the American Civil War.

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