The History of Wargaming Project
The project aims to make the largest possible collection of wargaming books and rules available to the modern reader. Ranging from second editions of wargaming classics, to professional wargaming rules used by the military and innovations in current wargaming.
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Donald Featherstone’s Wargames Through the Ages Volume
3: A Wargaming
Guide to 1792 to 1859
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August 2018 by Donald Featherstone Foreword by Paul Le Long, Solo Wargamers Association Edited by John Curry |
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Wargames through the Ages was first published to
fill a gap in literature of the hobby of wargaming. It was a one volume
summary of what was loosely called the Napoleonic period and beyond.
Each chapter assesses the techniques and fighting
methods of the opposing forces and indeed, the battle descriptions are
often sufficiently colourful to inspire reconstruction. In discussing
how this can best be simulated on a table-top battlefield the author
gives comprehensive information as to contemporary styles of warfare
which provides a basis for the formulation of rules. Thus, the role of
the book is to suggest rudimentary ideas that will stimulate the reader
into experimenting until he has perfected and polished them into soundly
constructed rules that suit both his temperament and his personal
conception of warfare. The period under review is extensive, and beginning
with The French Revolutionary wars, it carries the reader through the
Napoleonic Wars, then onto later conflicts with the Mexican War 1846-48,
the Crimean War 1854-1855 and the Austrian/ French Wars of 1859. The book is published by the History of Wargaming
Project as part of ongoing work to document the development of
wargaming.
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