Black Powder II Rulebook

The aim of the book is to encourage players to refight historical battles with an emphasis on command, battlefield manoeuvre and the cinematic spectacle of warfare from the period.

The rules cover all the essential aspects of warfare during the era, including:

• Command and issuing orders
• Troop movement and manoeuvre
• Musketry and artillery fire
• Morale and battlefield discipline
• Optional rules for customising games

The book also includes numerous examples of additional rules and variations, allowing players to tailor battles to suit their own preferred style of play and historical setting.

Included are twelve complete historical battle scenarios spanning a wide range of conflicts:

• Battle of Elixheim – War of the Spanish Succession, 1705
• Battle of Clifton Moor – Jacobite Rising, 1745
• Raid on Fort Ligonier – French and Indian War, 1758
• Battle of Chinsurah – Seven Years’ War, 1759
• Battle of Bunker Hill – American War of Independence, 1775
• Battle of North Point – War of 1812, 1814
• Quatre Bras – Napoleonic Wars, 1815
• The Eve of Waterloo – Napoleonic Wars, 1815
• Battle of Kernstown – American Civil War, 1862
• Battle of Antietam – American Civil War, 1862
• Battle of Dead Man’s Creek – Sioux War, 1876–77
• Action on the iNyezane – Zululand, 1879

From the disciplined infantry lines of the eighteenth century to the industrialised warfare of the nineteenth century, Black Powder provides a flexible and cinematic rules system for recreating history’s great battles with miniature armies.