White Mountain Board Game

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.

For Parliament King or Glory English Civil War Rules

For Parliament King or Glory is a set of free wargames rules available from the Yahoo Group of the same name.

By Fire and Sword

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

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.

The Sword and The Pike

The Sword and The Pike is a renaissance variant for Larry Brom’s classic The Sword and The Flame.