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With Pike and Musket: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Battles for the War Gamer |
Author: Wesencraft, C. F.:
Description: Elmfield Press 1975 1975 Publishers original grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Dustwrapper: clipped, chipping to top and base of spine, and corners. Closed tear to top of front cover, now protected in Brodart. White endpapers, no inscriptions. 192pp including index, plus 8pp b/w photographs, profusely illustrated with instructional battle maps drawings, pages clean and bright in firm binding. During the reign if Henry VIII a new type of weapon was making uts hesitant appearance within the ranks of the English infantry, the hand gun. At first it was a mere trickle, but gradually it gained in popularity. Being relatively cheap to produce, and making a great deal of noise when fired, it became the perfect mate for the other major weapon of the time, the pike. This book traces the courtship and eventual marriage of these weapons throughout a hundred years of English warfare. In the beginning one soldier would shoulder the musket while another trailed the pike. With the coming of the bayonet the pike declined to become a symbol of rank. Having armed the reader with a working knowledge of the weapons and their uses, this book presents suggested rules of play, which will enable the table top general to manoeuvre and fight in the manner of Charles I, Rupert, Essex, Cromwell, and the rest. Twenty-seven battles of the period are described, including the numbers engaged, types of troops, battle maps and objectives. Three hundred years after the dust of the battle has settled, once again the New Model Army faces Newcastle's Whitecoats across a low valley. The outcome will depend upon the ability of the reader. Run out the guns and let the battle commence.
Book Number: 0005990
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Price: $50.00 (AUD) |
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