The Bayonet & Musket Battles series is GMT's follow-up to the extremely popular Musket & Pike series, showing the movement of European warfare from tactical systems based on shock to a modern reliance on firepower. Volume 1 will be Banish All Their Fears, covering the battles of Neerwinden, 1693 as well as Blenheim, 1704.
Neerwinden, July 29, 1693, War of the League of Augsburg. Outnumbered along with thoroughly out-maneuvered by the French army under the Duke of Luxembourg, British King William III refuses to retreat his Allied army over the river to his rear and instead elects to defend a stout breastwork line strongly anchored on fortified villages.
Luxembourg has the cream of the French army at his command, along with sees an opportunity to break the enemy defenses along with possibly destroy the Allied army. Blenheim, August 13, 1704, War of the Spanish Succession.
Facing defeat in Spain, northern Italy, along with along the Rhine, the Duke of Marlborough leads his Allied army deep into Bavaria and threatens to remove that key French ally from the war. The French respond by sending an army under Marshal Tallard that links up including the Bavarians under Elector Max Emmanuel along with stands to face Marlborough near the village of Blenheim on the banks of the Danube.
Larger armies as well as the primacy of firepower mean significant changes for the familiar Musket & Pike game system: Larger armies. Brigades became the primary battlefield maneuver element, as well as while retaining foot battalions as well as horse regiments as our unit scale, we've made brigades paramount.
Shifting brigades between wings as well as committing them into action to take advantage of enemy mistakes was the essence of victory for the great commanders of the age, along with we've built that into the game. Supremacy of firepower.
Combat has been streamlined and simplified so that most unit combats are now resolved in 1 - 2 die rolls featuring decisive results. Players will soon learn the importance of creating along with using fresh reserves to bolster their shot-up frontline battalions.
Solid map as well as OOB research. Nothing new here, the consistently high level of historical research that went into maps as well as OOB's in the Musket & Pike series continues.
Components: 1 X Rulebook 1 x Playbook 1 x Two-sided 34x22 map 5 x Two-sided inch counter sheets 1 x Two-sided 11x17 Command Display 2 x Two-sided 11x17 Player Aid Cards 1 x Single-sided 8.5x11 Time Card 2 x 10 Sided Dice Vendor: GMT
