It's Getting a Bit Chile
It's Getting a Bit Chile" is a set of tabletop rules written specifically for land battles during the Pacific War of 1879-1884¸ between Chile and an alliance consisting of Peru and Bolivia. Starting as a dispute over the taxation of mining rights¸ the "10 Cent War" was a protracted and brutal conflict that changed the face of Pacific Coast South America. Using a gridded playing area and innovative rules¸ "It's Getting a Bit Chile" enables games at a Divisional level and above¸ with the lowest level of resolution being battalion. The game has unique mechanisms devised specifically for the War and do not treat it simply as "Franco-Prussian War Lite". The author is a historian¸ wargamer and blogger who has written numerous sets of wargames rules and games. He produced several games for by the Society of Ancients as re-subscription incentives¸ when there was such a thing. His blog¸ "Wargaming for Grown Ups" contains more information on these rules¸ with photographs and reports of games in play. He also wrote "Northampton 1460" a board game of the Wars of the Roses battle of that name¸ which was published by the Northamptonshire Battlefields Society. He can usually be found on their stand at many wargames shows. More recently he went back to his roots as a historian and published "The Battle of Edgcote 1469 - Re-evaluating the evidence" to mark the 550th anniversary of the battle. It went on to win the Northamptonshire History Forum Award for best publication in 2019. "It's Getting a Bit Chile" is the second set of rules from the "Wargaming for Grown Ups" imprint¸ following on from the successful "To Ur is Human" Sumerian rules.