Shot, Steel & Stone: the Bare Essentials Rules for Wargaming the Horse & Musket Era in European and Colonial Settings

Shot, Steel & Stone is an easy-to-learn set of horse and musket era rules that first appeared in the author's best-selling book THE WARGAMING COMPENDIUM (Pen & Sword, 2013). They are suitable for playing battlegames set in the era from approximately 1685 (when bayonets became common) through to about 1850, when rifled muskets started to dominate the battlefield. Expansions to the rules are planned to cover the earlier, late Renaissance era, as well as later conflicts both in Europe and the Americas up to the 1870s. This version of the rules has been fully updated and expanded with the collaboration of many wargamers over the course of ten years. It has been playtested in games both small and large, including huge, multi-player games in which armies numbering thousands of miniatures per side have clashed in 18th century pitched battles set in the author's Wars of the Faltenian Succession imagi-nations campaigns. The rules are scale-agnostic, and there is no need to re-base your