Horse & Musket: Sport of Kings
Game design: Sean Chick Art: Ilya Kudriashov Hex Number: 23 Duration: 60 to 90 minutes Players: 2 Solitaire Suitability: High Theme: 18th Century Series: Horse & Musket THIS IS AN EXPANSION! You need "Horse & Musket: Dawn of an Era" to play this game. The ambitious task that designer Sean Chick has set before himself with his series Horse & Musket is to trace the development of battlefield tactics¸ doctrine¸ and technology from the end of the seventeenth century to the middle of the nineteenth over the course of six volumes. This second volume picks up where Dawn of an Era left off¸ covering 1721 - 1748. This is a dramatic and colorful era¸ "the pinnacle of classic linear combat". Memorable personages such as Nader Shah¸ Maurice de Saxe¸ and Bonnie Prince Charlie march their grand armies across your hex grid. Stealing the spotlight is the young and untested Frederick II of Prussia. Early on he suffers embarrassments and setbacks¸ stumbling into victories by the skin of his teeth. But by the time this volume concludes¸ he will have become one of the greatest leaders in military history. Gulnabad - March 8¸ 1722 ‐ Zenith of the the Hotak Dynasty Mehmandost - September 29¸ 1729 ‐ Safavid Restoration Samarra - July 19¸ 1733 ‐ The Fate of Baghdad San Pietro - June 29¸ 1734 ‐ The Blurred Line Between Bold and Reckless Guastalla - September 19¸ 1734 ‐ The Day the World Lost Ogoula Tchetoka - March 25¸ 1736 ‐ Father Senat's Hymn Ackia - May 26¸ 1736 ‐ Bienville's Blunder Karnal - February 24¸ 1739 ‐ Death Knell of the Mughal Empire Grocka - July 22¸ 1739 ‐ The Treaty of Belgrade Stavuchany - August 17¸ 1739 ‐ Stanilesti Avenged Fort San Lazaro - April 20¸ 1741 ‐ "To Admiral Vernon¸ the scourge of Spain" Mollwitz - April 14¸ 1741 ‐ "We'll retreat over the bodies of our enemies." Chotusitz - May 17¸ 1742 ‐ Frederick II's First Victory Fontenoy - May 11¸ 1745 ‐ "Gentlemen of the French Guards¸ fire." Hohenfriedberg - June 4¸ 1745 ‐ Der Hohenfriedberger Marsch Prestonpans - September 21¸ 1745 ‐ Accidental Cannae Soor - September 30¸ 1745 ‐ "God is against us." Kesselsdorf - December 15¸ 1745 ‐ "O Lord God¸ let me not be disgraced in my old days." Culloden - April 16¸ 1746 ‐ Tragedy on the Moors Lauffeld - July 2¸ 1747 ‐ Ligonier's Charge (176) 5/8" counters (with and without grid) 28-page Volume II Scenario Book 1 (4-page) Player's Aid Card (11x17 and 8.5x11 versions) 36 Special Scenario Rule cards You will need (4) ten-sided dice You will need (2) six-sided dice