Pen and Sword Military, 2011. — 134 p. Blood, Bilge and Iron Balls is a set of wargame rules for naval battles in the age of sail. With them you can recreate the triumphs of Nelson or Hawke or tackle pirates on the Spanish Main. The rules themselves are very simple and easy to learn. Each player can easily command a single ship or several, the rules working equally well for a...
Lulu Books, 2012. — 168 p. The Fletcher Pratt Naval Wargame was one of the most successful naval wargames of the 20th century. The straightforward rules, based on the innovation of estimating the range in order to hit, have an enduring fascination as a simulation of the 'big gun era' 1900-1945. As a result of extensive research, this book brings together previously unpublished...
Helion and Company, 2016. — 52 p. In this series renowned historical illustrator Peter Dennis breathes life into the 19th Century paper soldier and invites the reader to re-fight the wars that surged across the nation of Britain. All the artwork needed to make historically- accurate armies is presented in a source-book format, copyright free for personal use. In this first...
Helion and Company, 2017. — 52 p. — (Battle for Britain). Everything you need in this and the book below, to enable you to have a meaningful and enjoyable war game based on the Roman invasions of CE 43-84, and to relive the Battle of the Spanish Armada. Absolutely brilliant! This book provides an excellent way of raising large armies relatively cheaply, without having to spend...
Helion and Company, 2017. — 52 p. — (Battle for Britain). This excellent volume allows the purchase to build flat models of both the Spanish and English fleets of 1588, along with some scenery representing the English coast, and game markers that will be required by the rules. Most of the ships fit on a base of 40-50mm size. The buyer can either print the pages of the book,...
Helion and Company, 2016. — 52 p. — (Battle for Britain). The main rules are sufficiently simple to be easily intelligible by players who don’t possess extensive knowledge of the period and yet have sufficient ‘period atmosphere’ to enable them to recreate the style of fighting in the Wars of the Roses battles without being complex or requiring much mental arithmetic. They will...
Helion and Company, 2018. — 52 p. In this series, renowned historical illustrator, Peter Dennis breathes life into the 19th Century paper soldier and invites the reader to re-fight the wars that surged across Europe as Louis XIV fought to establish French dominance over its neighbors. Re-fight the color and spectacle of the Wars of Spanish Succession with French, British and...
Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 112 p. The history of Western Europe in the first half of the 17th century is dominated by the great conflict known as the Thirty Years’ War, although in reality it may be better to view it as a series of related conflicts rather than a single whole. Starting in 1618, and fought mainly in modern day Germany, its influence was felt as far west as...