Saints In Armor - Board Game - GMT Games

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Saints In Armor
- Board Game
- GMT Games. The Bohemian Revolt of 1618 triggered the Thirty Years War & in the early period of the war the Catholic/ Imperial cause enjoyed an almost unbroken string of victories. This game part of the Musket & Pike Battle Series simulates six battles of the early Thirty Years War. In the period covered the armies deployed in more compact formations so each battle fits on half of a standard map. The battles covered in this game are: White Mountain November 1620 The combined army of the Holy Roman Empire & the Catholic League under Johann Tserclaes the Count of Tilly strike a blow directly at the Bohemian capital of Prague. The Bohemians make a stand on the slopes of White Mountain outside the town. Their Transylvanian allies desert them at the most critical point of the battle causing the total collapse of the Bohemian army & its cause. This is a short scenario where the qualitatively superior Catholic forces must crush the strongly positioned Bohemians who are bolstered by a large Transylvanian contingent of questionable reliability. Wimpfen May 1622 Tilly joins forces with the Spanish under Cordoba. Together they pursue the smaller army of the Markgraf of Baden-Durlach. They catch his army near the town of Wimpfen where it is drawn up in a defensive position in a river bend. The Badian camp is fortified in a special traditional way with Spie