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Shot, Steel & Stone

Rules for Wargaming the Horse & Musket era in European and Colonial settings

By Henry Hyde (Gladius Publications, 2024) £12.35

Dice: D6 and D5 Alternate Turn (IGO-UGO)

I enjoy rules written by Henry Hyde. He writes rules that are straightforward, comprehensive, and most importantly quick both to learn and play.

This set of rules are the product of an evolving rules set, and this copy is an updated version of these rules. The scope is to present a rules set that cover the period 1685 to the mid-nineteenth century when smoothbore muskets were more or less

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