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And One For All

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And One For All is a set of free wargames rules from Eureka Miniatures for swashbuckling adventure in the tradition of the Three Musketeers.

Border Reiver Feud Wargame Rules

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Border Reiver is a set of miniatures rules for playing medieval and renaissance era games in the border regions between England and Scotland.

White Mountain Board Game

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White Mountain is a hex and counter board game for the Thirty Years War. It’s designed in the vein of the popular Command and Colors system.

By Fire and Sword

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By Fire and Sword is the free version of a commercially published set of rules for the wars of Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth against Turkey, Muscovy, Sweden, the Crimean Khanate and the Cossacks.

I fell in love with the period some years ago when I read a trilogy of books — With Fire and Sword, The Deluge and Fire In The Steppe — that was set in the period. The Polish author, Henryk Sienkiewicz, won the Nobel Prize for literature.

Pikes and Gendarmes

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Pikes and Gendarmes is a set of big battle rules that had their origin as a variant of Larry Brom’s seminal The Sword and The Flame. This is set, obviously, in the Renaissance era.