This award-winning book describes the Black Powder game and its various procedures and rules as played by the authors and their friends. The authors’ aim is to enable and encourage the reader to recreate the great battles of the 18th and 19th centuries with armies of model soldiers on the tabletop. As well as providing for the fundamentals of warfare such as the command of troops, movement on the battlefield, the effects of musketry and artillery, and the role of morale, the book includes numerous examples of further rules allowing the player to tailor games to their own preferences. In addition, twelve complete examples of Black Powder battles are included, embracing a range of conflicts throughout the period covered. Battle of Elixheim – War of the Spanish Succession, 1705 Battle of Clifton Moor – Jacobite Rising, 1745 Raid on Fort Ligonier – French and Indian War, 1758 Battle of Chinsurah – Seven Years’ War, 1759 Battle of Bunker Hill – American War of Independence, 1775 Battle of North Point – The War of 1812, 1814 Quatre Bras – Napoleonic War, 1815 The Eve of Waterloo – Napoleonic War, 1815 Battle of Kernstown – American Civil War, 1862 Battle of Antietam – American Civil War, 1862 Battle of Dead Man’s Creek – Sioux War, 1876-77 Action on the iNyezane – Zululand, 1879

On a damp, overcast Sunday in June 1815, twenty years of continuous warfare the Napoleonic Wars came to a violent and bloody conclusion on a rain-soaked field in Belgium. These wars were truly a world affair, with European powers fighting battles not only on the mainland of Europe but as far as India, Egypt, the Caribbean and America. The greatest generals of the age finally faced each other on the field of battle; The Duke of Wellington, rooted to a little-known ridge, faced, the Emperor of the French. Napoleon Bonaparte, master of the attack, opposed brigades of British, Germans, Dutch and Belgians; brigades of an infamous army that, despite horrific casualties, clung to the ridge for over nine hours to ensure that the arrival of BlǬcher's Prussian army would put the Duke victory beyond doubt. The Battle of Waterloo became a true landmark in military history, one that will never fade, and nothing on such a grand scale would be seen again. This new starter set for Black Powder contains everything needed to start your campaign for victory at Waterloo! Contents include: * Soft back A5 version of the new Black Powder Second Edition rulebook * Easy start guide * 12 Chasseurs à Cheval * 48 French infantry * 48 British infantry * 24 Hanoverian Infantry * 1x Metal Royal artillery cannon * 1x metal French foot commander * 1x metal British foot commander * Bases for all above models * Six d6 * Card playsheet and casualty markers Models supplied unassembled and unpainted

Battles with model soldiers in the 16th and 17th Centuries. As you can see from the fabulous cover, the book covers more than just English Civil War and Thirty Years War. A labour of love, written by Steve Morgan, the book also covers the Italian Wars, Tudor Wars in the British Isles and War of the Grand Alliance. Expanding on Rick Priestley’s Black Powder rules what started out as an expansion has now become one of the finest stand-alone wargaming rulebooks to ever be produced. The format of the inner pages will be a familiar one to those who already own our Hail Caesar and Black Powder rulebooks – loads of eye candy to back up the rules! With 208 pages in the book you’ll be kept busy for some time digesting the rules or drooling over the photographs or beautifully painted miniatures. Detailed rules and separate army lists cover the differences in the methods of fighting throughout the period, and the book also includes numerous examples of further rules allowing the player to tailor games to their own preference. In addition there are six complete examples of Pike & Shotte battles within the book, embracing a range of conflicts that occurred between 1500 and 1700 – both real and imagined. Battle of Pavia 1525 French and Imperial forces clash in the Italian Wars It’s a Long Way to Killarney 1573 The English attempt to quash the Desmond Rebellion in Elizabethan Ireland Blood on the Danube 1632 An army of the Holy Roman Empire resists the Swedish advance in the Thirty Years War Smart Battalia 1644 The Battle of Cropredy Bridge in the English Civil War The Siege of Worcester 1651 An alternate history scenario for the English Civil War Battle of Walcourt 1689 The French army threatens to crush the allies in the War of the Grand Alliance 208 page full-colour softcover book