Friday, 28 February 2020

Worth a look - new 17th C rules from Helion

Not out yet but you can sign-up to hear when they are:

https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/in-deo-veritas-fast-play-rules-for-exciting-seventeenth-century-battles-in-smaller-scales.php?fbclid=IwAR1VcahVKMQtBYjbnuqVWXkwgJRb2eEFSvw_1kdZJikZWqH3OrRSLIZ6J6Y

Thanks to Ralphus at the Wars of Louis XIV blog for pointing these out. Always worth looking on there for matters pike and shot.

5 comments:

  1. Always open to reading a new set of pike and shotte rules. When it says “brigade level” does that mean each BMU is a brigade or the player commands a brigade?

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    1. I read that as each game unit is a brigade rather than each player commands a brigade. It talks about largish battles so I assume there are several brigades in each army. Wittstock is mentioned: Wiki tells me that there were c 19000 on each side so half a dozen brigades each at a guess.

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  2. Ooh thanks for the heads up matey, I’ll book mark that!

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  3. Interesting, their history books are good, so worth a longer look I guess?
    Best Iain

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    1. Not read any yet, but maybe these rules will be the first.

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