Never Mind the Billhooks: Wargaming Guide

Billhooks is a fast-action game of late medieval European warfare, set at the small battle and big skirmish level.

In order to play, you will need around 100 figures a side, lots of D6s, and a six by four foot table. Everything else you need is included in this book. A typical game can be played through in around 90 minutes.

The game uses a card-driven turn sequence and simple but exciting combat mechanisms, with loads of dice rolls, to produce battles that are full of period flavour but always unpredictable.

Billhooks Deluxe gives you a ‘Core’ Wars of the Roses ruleset and then expands that to cover seven new Theatres and Conflicts from across Western European Christendom c.1350-1525. You will find troop stats and special rules for Irish Gallowglass, Hussite War Wagons, and Landsknecht Pikemen along with all the other troop types to be found on battlefields of the period, from Hundred Years’ War France to Renaissance Italy.

The following are the Theatres and Conflicts in this book:

Albion – The Wars of the Roses
Gallia – The Hundred Years’ War
Bohemia – The Hussite Wars
Helvetia – The Swiss-Burgundian War
Italia – The Italian Wars
Northumbria – The Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers
Lusitania – Late Medieval Portugal
Hibernia – Warfare in Ireland

You will also find a Modelling Masterclass chapter with a comprehensive guide to painting, modelling, and kitbashing 28mm plastic figures.

This package contains a 180-page softcover book.