Wars of the Faltenian Succession Compilation On Sale Now

WotFS-comp-cover-800Fans of the 18th Century, and imagi-nations in particular, have been asking me for some time to create a compilation of all twelve of my articles that first appeared in issues 1-12 of Battlegames. Well, here they are, with a new foreword by way of introduction, and I have also made all navigation links ‘live’ both for internal pages and to external websites where appropriate.

Aficionados of campaigns will also be pleased to hear that I have just started writing a new book, Wargaming Campaigns, which is intended as a follow-up to The Wargaming Compendium, my first book that was published by Pen & Sword almost exactly a year ago and which has turned out, much to my surprise, to be a runaway best-seller. Whilst the Compendium contains a full set of horse and musket era battle rules, Shot, Steel & Stone, as well as an introduction to campaign gaming, it does not contain the siege rules included here, which provide both ‘automated’ outcomes if you want to get quick results, but also full tabletop rules for a sapping slog if that’s what you fancy!

The episodic nature of the original articles make for handy chapters in this 35-page PDF (built for Adobe Reader 9 and above – here’s a link to Adobe if you need it).

  • I: how and why the campaign was born
  • II: early considerations of movement and weather
  • III: an initial consideration of supplies and map-making
  • IV: maps, glorious maps!
  • V: writing campaign rules – natural resources and economics
  • VI: creating your fictitious armies
  • VII: adding personality to your campaign
  • VIII: involving personalities in your campaign
  • IX: rules for fighting the campaign
  • X: simple rules for sieges, part 1
  • XI: simple rules for sieges, part 2, and pontoons
  • XII: tabletop siege gaming

Finally, those that follow my magazines will know that I have been raising money for the British veterans’ charity Combat Stress for several years now, so £1 from every copy of this e-book sold will be donated to them on a monthly basis via my JustGiving page at www.justgiving.com/battlegames.

Available in the Shop section of this site now.

And finally, as a postscript, many thanks to all those purchasers who pointed out that there was a glitch with the link back to here from PayPal after making a payment, which has now (I hope!) been fixed. Please also note that the link for the download arrives in a separate email generated by the eShop software after purchase.

12 Comments

  1. Hello,

    I wish to acced the shop section to buy th Wars of the Faltenian Succession compilation, but always arrive on an 404 error page.

    Is the link dead or with an error ?

    Thank you

  2. Any chance that you’ll get these on sale again ..soon 😉 I loved the bits I got from your wargaming book and just want some more!

    thanks!
    mike

    • I’m hoping to have everything back on sale in the next few days, but bear in mind that I’m now grappling with new software for the shop and MWBG 377 goes to press on Friday!

    • You will have just received that email, Neil. I’m afraid eShop can be a bit slow sometimes – as I say on the site, PayPal can take up to four days to actually send back confirmation of the transaction – which is why I end up going in and processing the emails manually most of the time, but I do have to take a break for meals sometime! 😀

    • Neil, you won’t be disappointed. It is thoroughly enjoyable! I think Henry should consider the idea of crafting some prose set during the Faltenian Succession. Bet it would be riveting.

  3. Excellent! Just purchased it but didn’t get a link to download or an email to download. Only got a paypal receipt. Can you help?
    Cheers
    Neil

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