Age of Reason · American Revolutionary War

Shot, Steel & Stone

2 players—ages 11

About the game

What is Shot, Steel & Stone

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 miniatures as long as your basing is consistent. The size of your miniatures doesn't matter either, and games have been played successfully with figures ranging from 6mm up to 30mm. It is possible to adapt to very small table sizes, or increase the number of miniatures per base for a strikingly realistic look and feel to your games.

The system is IGO-UGO, with variation to enable the non-active player to react to enemy action, and there is no need to write orders. It's entirely up to you whether you decide to remove casualties inflicted or record them using small dice, dials or other markers—even the old-fashioned method of writing them down!

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