Base Game

White Mountain
8 November 1620
The Bohemian Revolt
Cards 7A – 10A
Morale: 4
Imperials & Catholic League
Cards 1A – 6A
Morale: 2
A strong defensive position is squandered by the hapless rebel leadership, effectively ending the Bohemian Revolt. Incredibly, the war it ignited would continue on, engulfing most of Europe for three decades. A simple battle to get your feet wet.
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Marston Moor
2 July 1644
Royalists
Cards 11A – 17A
Morale: 2
Parliament & Covenanters
Cards 18A – 24A
Morale: 3
A letter from King Charles convinced Prince Rupert of the Rhine that he ought to fight a much larger army. Parliament won a lopsided victory. Only the stubborn stand of the Whitecoats prevented total disaster. This has more moving parts than the White Mountain scenario.
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The Plains of Abraham
13 September 1759
British
Cards 25A – 28A
Morale: 0 - see below
French
Cards 29A – 32A
Morale: 3 - see below
To win, the British must Rout all 3 French cards without losing any of their own. If the French Rout a single card, they win (even if they lose their last card when doing so).
The battle that won Canada for the British. This battle introduces Counter-attack Reactions.
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Bosworth Field
22 August 1485
House of York
Cards 33A – 35A
Morale: 2
House of Lancaster (Tudor)
Cards 36A – 38A
Morale: 1
The battle that ended the Wars of the Roses, and saw the ascendancy of the Tudors. This small and curious scenario gives you a peek at the Absorb reaction and introduces Command actions, turning on the timely arrival of fresh troops.
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Malplaquet
11 September 1709
French
Cards 39A – 42A
Morale: 2
The Grand Alliance
Cards 1B – 6B
Morale: 3
The Grand Alliance broke the French line – but paid for it with heavy losses. French commander Villars wrote to the king after the battle: "If it pleases God to give your majesty's enemies another such victory, they are ruined."
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Ivry
14 March 1590
Royalists
Cards 7B – 13B
Morale: 4
The Catholic (Holy) League
Cards 14B – 20B
Morale: 4
Henri IV defeated his Catholic opposition, thanks in part to enemy mercenaries who were sympathetic to his cause. It wasn't enough to win over Paris; his rule would not be accepted until he converted. This is a tricky scenario – a dance of screens.
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The Dunes
14 June 1658
French & English
Cards 21B – 28B
Morale: 2
Spanish, French & English
Cards 29B – 35B
Morale: 3
Complicated politics saw French and English troops on both sides of this battlefield, widely admired as Turenne's masterpiece. You will need to master all three Reaction types to triumph here.
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Brooklyn Heights
27 August 1776
Colonials
Cards 39B – 42B
Morale: 1
British & Their Vile Hessians
Cards 36B – 38B
Morale: 1
A diversionary attack by Grant disguised Clinton's advance on the Patriot flank. Outgunned, outmanned, outnumbered and outplanned, they've gotta make an all-out stand – at least until the main body of the army can escape. For experienced players.
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Wars of the Roses

St. Albans
22 May 1455
House of York
Cards 43A – 46A
Morale: 1
House of Lancaster
Cards 47A – 49A
Morale: 2
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Blore Heath
22 September 1459
House of Lancaster
Cards 50A – 55A
Morale: 3
House of York
Cards 56A – 60A
Morale: 1
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Mortimer's Cross
3 February 1461
House of Lancaster
Cards 61A – 63A
Morale: 2
House of York
Cards 64A – 67A
Morale: 2
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Towton
29 March 1461
House of Lancaster
Cards 68A – 75A
Morale: 4
House of York
Cards 76A – 82A
Morale: 2
Only 8 Morale cubes (the 6 listed above, and the 2 that start on Special Formations) are used for this scenario. Place the other two back in the box.
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Edgecote Moor
26 July 1469
House of York
Cards 43B – 47B
Morale: 1
"Robin" of Redesdale
Cards 48B – 51B
Morale: 1
The first player to bring in their Formation(s) from Reserve gains a second Morale Cube.
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Barnet
14 April 1471
House of Lancaster
Cards 52B – 56B
Morale: 1
House of York
Cards 57B – 62B
Morale: 2
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Tewkesbury
4 May 1471
House of York
Cards 63B – 67B
Morale: 2
House of Lancaster
Cards 68B – 71B
Morale: 3
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Stoke Field
16 June 1487
An Imposter, Lambert Simnel
Cards 72B – 75B
Morale: 3
House of Tudor
Cards 76B – 82B
Morale: 1
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Base Game

Gaines's Mill
27 June 1862
Union
Cards 83A – 87A
Morale: 2
Confederate
Cards 88A – 91A
Morale: 2
From C3i #32
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Bouvines
27 July 1214
French
Cards 83B – 86B
Morale: 1
Coalition
Cards 87B – 91B
Morale: 2
From C3i #32
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Age of Alexander

Chaeronea
2 August 338 BCE
Philip II
Cards 92A – 96A
Morale: 1
Greek Alliance
Cards 97A – 101A
Morale: 3
If Polyaenus is to be believed (a big if!), Philip isolated the Greek left with a faked retreat, while the teenaged Alexander destroyed the famous Sacred Band of Thebes and smashed the Greek right.
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The Granicus
May 334 BCE
Various Squabbling Satraps
Cards 102A – 108A
Morale: 3
Alexander III
Cards 109A – 114A
Morale: 1
Persia's light cavalry is no match for our boy's infantry and Companions, and it doesn't help the Persian cause that no one is really in charge. About the only thing they have going for them is they're on the other side of a river. Will it be enough?
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Issus
5 November 333 BCE
Darius III
Cards 115A – 121A
Morale: 3
Alexander III
Cards 122A – 129A
Morale: 1
Darius had a numerical advantage – how much exactly is impossible to say – but most of his troops were ineffectual light infantry that weren't actually engaged. Both sides concentrated their strength on their right, and it was a race to see which side's left would collapse first.
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Gaugamela
1 October 331 BCE
Alexander III
Cards 130A – 135A
Morale: 1
Darius III
Cards 92B – 100B
Morale: 4
Numbering somewhere between 100,000 and one million (!), Darius's army vastly outnumbered Alexander's. But he was still trying to fight the Macedonians with Persian methods, and after some hard fighting, Alexander broke the Persian left.
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The Hydaspes
May 326 BCE
Alexander III
Cards 101B – 107B
Morale: 1
Porus
Cards 108B – 113B
Morale: 3
Crossing the river with a small part of his army, Alexander was initially outnumbered, and the enemy's fearsome elephants threatened to break the phalanx. But daring and complicated maneuvers threw the Indian army into disarray, securing victory for Alexander in his last major battle.
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Gabiene
316 BCE
Eumenes
Cards 114B – 119B
Morale: 2
Antigonus
Cards 120B – 123B
Morale: 2
One of the many battles fought by Alexander's successors (the Diadochi), this one proved tactically inconclusive. But the capture of Eumenes's baggage was enough for his Silver Shields to turn him over to Antigonus for execution.
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Ipsus
301 BCE
Antigonus
Cards 124B – 129B
Morale: 2
Seleucus
Cards 130B – 135B
Morale: 2
Like Gabiene and many other battles from the Wars of the Diadochi, this battle saw two armies that were mostly identical in structure and tactics. And like many ancient battles, the death of a single man, the enemy commander (in this case Antigonus), was sufficient to secure victory.
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Gettysburg

Little Round Top
2 July 1863
Union
Cards 136A – 143A
Morale: 1
Confederate
Cards 144A – 149A
Morale: 2
One of the most famous actions of the day saw fewer than three thousand men mount a desperate, hard-fought, and ingenious defense of the Union left flank against the repeated assaults of nearly five thousand butternuts.
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The Wheatfield
2 July 1863
Confederate
Cards 150A – 156A
Morale: 3
Union
Cards 157A – 167A
Morale: 3
Confederate assaults caused the Union to retreat, then Union assoults caused the rebs to fall back, and on and on, back and forth, possession of the Wheatfield changing hands repeatedly, neither side gaining any real advantage, with thousands of casualties
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The Peach Orchard
2 July 1863
Confederate
Cards 168A – 177A
Morale: 4
Union
Cards 136B – 143B
Morale: 2
Sickle's line formed a salient at the Peach Orchard, which collapsed under pressure from the Confederates. Sickles himself was hit in the leg by a cannonball. To counter rumors that he had died, he sat up on his stretcher and puffed at a cigar to show that he was still breathing.
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Cemetery Ridge
2 July 1863
Confederate
Cards 144B – 147B
Morale: 1
Union
Cards 148B – 154B
Morale: 3
Anderson's attack on the Union center came close to breaking it, opening a gap in the line. The line – perhaps even the Union – was saved by the 262 men of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment, which charged a brigade over five times its size, suffering 215 casualties.
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Culp's Hill
2 July 1863
Union
Cards 155B – 161B
Morale: 1
Confederate
Cards 162B – 165B
Morale: 3
Impressive defensive works constructed on the initiative of Brig. Gen. George Greene (a civil engineer) allowedh a desperately thin blue line of around two thousand men to beat back nearly five thousand rebs. (Before playing, be sure to read the "Geary" card and keep its effects in mind.)
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2nd Day of Gettysburg
2 July 1863
Union
Cards 166B – 172B
Morale: 2
Confederate
Cards 173B – 177B
Morale: 2
The Confederates attacked the Union line en echelon in a series of bloody assaults. Meade shuffled men from one part of the "fish hook" to the next, pushing back and plugging holes in his line. At the end of the day, the line held.
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English Civil War

Edgehill
23 October 1642
Royalists
Cards 178A – 185A
Morale: 2
Tactical Victory: 18
Parliamentarians
Cards 186A – 193A
Morale: 3
Initial success on the wings and a stubborn infantry contest had all the makings of a decisive Royalist victory. But the cavalier cavalry pursued the main roundhead horse, and the unsupported infantry was scattered by Parliamentarian reserve cavalry.
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1st Newbury
20 September 1643
Parliamentarians
Cards 194A – 199A
Morale: 2
Royalists
Cards 200A – 206A
Morale: 1
A surprise attack grabbed key terrain and threatened the Royalist flanks. Recovering from the chaos, a counterattack broke the roundhead center, splitting Essex's army. An attempt to envelop the two halves was thwarted by the London Trained Bands.
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2nd Newbury
27 October 1644
Parliamentarians
Cards 207A – 211A
Morale: 1
Tactical Victory: 16
Royalists
Cards 212A – 216A
Morale: 2
Tactical Victory: 16
Attacked from opposite directions and outnumbered more than two to one, the King appeared to be doomed. But the enemy just couldn't coordinate; stubborn Royalist resistance denied Essex anything more than a tactical victory.
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Naseby
14 June 1645
Royalists
Cards 178B – 183B
Morale: 2
Tactical Victory: 20
Parliamentarians
Cards 184B – 190B
Morale: 2
The New Model Army at last achieved decisive victory at Naseby, leaving Charles without a field army. It was also a political victory, as they captured (and published) letters in which the King plotted with foreign troops against his subjects.
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Tippermuir
1 September 1644
Covenanters
Cards 191B – 196B
Morale: 4
Royalists
Cards 197B – 202B
Morale: 0 - see below
If any Royalist card Routs, the Covenanters win immediately.
Meanwhile, in Scotland, Montrose sought to block the intervention of the Solemn League and Covenant, and near Perth won a decisive victory – supposedly losing only one man to Elcho's two thousand dead. Yeah, sure.
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Auldearn
9 May 1645
Covenanters
Cards 203B – 208B
Morale: 5
Royalists
Cards 209B – 216B
Morale: 0 - see below
If any Royalist card Routs, the Covenanters win immediately.
400 desperate men defend Auldearn from a Covenanter army nearly 2,000 strong. Their only hope is that Montrose will arrive in time to turn the tide. He better hurry it up!
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Base Game

Pharsalus
9 August 48 BCE
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
Cards 217A – 220A
Morale: 2
Gaius Iulius Caesar
Cards 221A – 225A
Morale: 2
The decisive battle of Caesar's Civil War saw him square off against his old ally Pompey the Great. Knowing he would lose a straightforward clash of arms, Caesar gambled everything on a bold stratagem.
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Inkerman
5 November 1854
Russian Empire
Cards 217B – 220B
Morale: 1
Anglo-French Alliance
Cards 221B – 225B
Morale: 2
In a dense fog, a massive – but badly coordinated – Russian army launched a surprise attack. As the fog lifted and fresh Allied troops poured in, their desperate, doomed defense improbably turned into a lopsided victory.
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The Grand Alliance

Fleurus
1 July 1690
French
Cards 226A – 231A
Morale: 1
The Grand Alliance
Cards 232A – 239A
Morale: 3
Luxembourg split the French army in two, attempting a risky double envelopment of Waldeck's line. He succeeded, and the enemy only escaped total destruction by the skin of its teeth. Both players should read the "Retreat to Nivelles" card carefully before playing.
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Marsaglia
4 October 1693
The Grand Alliance
Cards 240A – 245A
Morale: 2
French
Cards 246A – 251A
Morale: 2
In this scenario, if a player loses both linked formations, they immediately lose (if it happens to both players at the same time, The Grand Alliance wins).
Catinat's superb generalship and innovative use of a mass bayonet charge turned nearly even odds into a smashing victory.
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Chiari
1 September 1701
French
Cards 252A – 257A
Morale: 2
Tactical Victory: 15
Austrians
Cards 258A – 263A
Morale: 2
Tactical Victory: 22
Eugene's careful defense and choice of terrain negated the French numerical advantage, resulting in a decisive victory that persuaded the English and Dutch to join Austria in its war against France, getting the Grand Alliance band back together.
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Blenheim
13 August 1704
The Grand Alliance
Cards 226B – 233B
Morale: 2
French & Bavarians
Cards 234B – 242B
Morale: 3
The towns of Blenheim, Oberglauheim, and Lutzingen anchored the Franco-Bavarian army, and they did not expect the enemy to dare an attack. At first, it seemed a folly, but a French blunder created the opening Marlborough needed for a breakthrough and a decisive victory.
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Ramillies
23 May 1706
The Grand Alliance
Cards 243B – 247B
Morale: 1
French
Cards 248B – 254B
Morale: 4
Tactical Victory: 16
Villeroy stretched his army to secure his flanks. Seeing an opportunity, Marlborough risked envelopment with a much shorter line that allowed for a greater concentration of force against weakpoints in the enemy's line. Marlborough's gamble paid off in a lopsided victory.
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Denain
24 July 1712
The Grand Alliance
Cards 255B – 259B
Morale: 2
French
Cards 260B – 263B
Morale: 2
As Eugene marched toward Paris and final victory, his supply line was overextended. It crossed the Scheldt at Denain, a fortress held by only 10,000. A cunning night march allowed Villars to bring 24,000 to bear against the doomed defenders. His victory at Denain ended Eugene's advance.
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Charles Alexander of Lorraine

Hohenfriedberg
4 June 1745
Prussia
Cards 264A – 266A, 272A – 267A
Morale: 2
Austria
Cards 273A – 278A
Morale: 3
Tactical Victory: 24
After a daring night march, the Prussians planned to overwhel the Saxons with a surprise attack, then roll up the Austrian flank. But a staggered river crossing gave Charles time to hastily form up, forcing Frederick to improvise. The Austrians were obstinate but were ultimately routed.
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Soor
30 September 1745
Austria
Cards 279A – 285A
Morale: 4
Tactical Victory: 24
Prussia
Cards 286A – 291A
Morale: 2
Here Charles had overwhelming numbers, devastating artillery, favorable terrain, and the element of surprise. Which makes his lopsided defeat all the more humiliating. But he came close. "At Hohenfriedberg I fought for Silesia," Frederick recalled later, "but at Soor, I fought for my life."
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Rocoux
11 October 1746
Pragmatic Alliance
Cards 292A – 297A
Morale: 3
Tactical Victory: 28
French
Cards 298A – 303A
Morale: 1
Meanwhile, in the Austrian Netherlands, the dynamic Maurice de Saxe had the Pragmatic Army of Maria Theresa's allies on the ropes. Charles marched to their rescue, took command, and then... the Austrians sat on their hands and watched while they got the tar beat out of them at Rocoux. Huh.
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Prague
6 May 1757
Prussia
Cards 264B – 270B
Morale: 2
Austria
Cards 271B – 279B
Morale: 3
Tactical Victory: 28
Urged to attack, Charles declined, confident his formidable defenses would throw back any frontal assault. So imagine his surprise when the Prussians made a play for his rear. Charles sent Browne to fight them off. The battle went poorly for the Austrians, but did inflict heavy losses on the Prussians.
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Breslau
22 November 1757
Austria
Cards 280B – 284B
Morale: 2
Prussia
Cards 285B – 290B
Morale: 3
Tactical Victory: 20
Charles's only major victory was at Breslau against the Duke of Brunswick-Bevern. But before you go patting him on the back, bear in mind that to pull that off, he had to throw 84,000 men against the Duke's 28,000. It took all day, and until the final hour, the outcome remained in doubt.
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Leuthen
5 December 1757
Prussia
Cards 291B – 296B
Morale: 2
Austria
Cards 297B – 303B
Morale: 3
Tactical Victory: 13
Frederick brought 33,000 against the flank of Charles's 66,000 in a textbook example of an oblique attack. It was Old Fritz's most complete and brilliant victory, suffering a mere six thousand casualties, while the dumbfounded Charles lost twenty-two thousand – a third of his army.
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