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Horse & Musket: Dawn of an Era (2017)

Players
1–2
Best: 2
Playing time
60–90 min
Age
10+
7.98
Average rating
155
Ratings
2.47/5
Weight
#9072
BGG rank
Outside top 5,000
Designer:Sean Chick
Artist:Amabel Holland, Ilya Kudriashov, Caleb Lunt, Lauren Stahler
Publisher:Hollandspiele
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Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 7, Luck 7, Interaction 5, Complexity 4.9, Theme 5
Strategy7.0
Luck7.0
Interaction5.0
Complexity4.9
Theme5.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

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Overview

Horse and Musket: Dawn of an Era is a simple tactical game system that covers the development of musket warfare from Vienna in 1683 and Sedgemoor in 1685 to Appomattox in 1865. Volume I will cover warfare in the west from 1683-1720, when the bayonet replaced the pike.

The battles included are...

Vienna - September 12, 1683 – “We came, we saw, and God Conquered.”

Sedgemoor - July 6, 1685 – The Bloody Assizes

Killiecrankie - July 27, 1689 – Slaughter at Sundown

Fleurus - July 1, 1690 – The French Cannae

Aughrim - July 22, 1691 – Bloody Hollow

La Prairie - August 11, 1691 – Double Ambush

Neerwinden - July 29, 1693 – Le Tapissier de Nôtre Dame

Marsaglia - October 4, 1693 – The Massed Bayonet Charge is Born

Narva - November 30, 1700 – Charles XII Smashes the Russian Army

Chiari - September 1, 1701 – Catinat’s Last Battle

Klissow - July 19, 1702 – Charles XII Invades Poland

Blenheim - August 13, 1704 – “A Famous Victory”

Fraustadt - February 13, 1706 – The Swedish Cannae

Turin - September 7, 1706 – Eugene’s Greatest Victory

Almansa - April 25, 1707 – Battle of the Exiles

Poltava - July 8, 1709 – The Student Surpasses the Master

Malplaquet - September 11, 1709 – Mort et convoi de l'invincible Malbrough

Villaviciosa - December 10, 1710 – A Bourbon on the Spanish Throne

Sheriffmuir - November 13, 1715 – Confusion on the Moors

Glen Shiel - June 10, 1719 – Rob Roy’s Last Battle

Expansions

Horse & Musket II: Sport of Kings
Horse & Musket III: Crucible of War
Horse & Musket: Annual #1
Horse & Matchlock: Prelude to an Era
Horse & Musket IV: Tides of Revolution
Horse & Musket V: Age of Napoléon
Horse & Musket VI: Sunset of an Era
Horse & Musket: Annual #2
Horse & Musket: Annual #3
Horse & Musket: Annual #4
Horse & Musket: Annual #5
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