Horse & Musket II: Sport of Kings

Game design: Sean Chick
Art: Ilya Kudriashov
Hex Number: 23
Duration: 60 to 90 minutes
Players: 2
Solitaire Suitability: High
Theme: 18th Century
Series: Horse & Musket 
MSRP: $60.00

This is an expansion. You need “Horse & Musket: Dawn of an Era” to play this game.

The ambitious task that designer Sean Chick has set before himself with his series Horse & Musket is to trace the development of battlefield tactics, doctrine, and technology from the end of the seventeenth century to the middle of the nineteenth over the course of six volumes. This second volume picks up where Dawn of an Era left off, covering 1721 – 1748. This is a dramatic and colorful era, “the pinnacle of classic linear combat”. Memorable personages such as Nader Shah, Maurice de Saxe, and Bonnie Prince Charlie march their grand armies across your hex grid. Stealing the spotlight is the young and untested Frederick II of Prussia. Early on he suffers embarrassments and setbacks, stumbling into victories by the skin of his teeth. But by the time this volume concludes, he will have become one of the greatest leaders in military history. 

Gulnabad – March 8, 1722 – Zenith of the the Hotak Dynasty
Mehmandost – September 29, 1729 – Safavid Restoration
Samarra – July 19, 1733 – The Fate of Baghdad
San Pietro – June 29, 1734 – The Blurred Line Between Bold and Reckless
Guastalla – September 19, 1734 – The Day the World Lost
Ogoula Tchetoka – March 25, 1736 – Father Senat’s Hymn
Ackia – May 26, 1736 – Bienville’s Blunder
Karnal – February 24, 1739 – Death Knell of the Mughal Empire
Grocka – July 22, 1739 – The Treaty of Belgrade
Stavuchany – August 17, 1739 – Stănileşti Avenged
Fort San Lazaro – April 20, 1741 – “To Admiral Vernon, the scourge of Spain”
Mollwitz – April 14, 1741 – “We’ll retreat over the bodies of our enemies.”
Chotusitz – May 17, 1742 – Frederick II’s First Victory
Fontenoy – May 11, 1745 – “Gentlemen of the French Guards, fire.”
Hohenfriedberg – June 4, 1745 – Der Hohenfriedberger Marsch
Prestonpans – September 21, 1745 – Accidental Cannae
Soor – September 30, 1745 – “God is against us.”
Kesselsdorf – December 15, 1745 – “O Lord God, let me not be disgraced in my old days.”
Culloden – April 16, 1746 – Tragedy on the Moors
Lauffeld – July 2, 1747 – Ligonier’s Charge

• (176) 5/8″ counters
• 28-page Volume II Scenario Book
• 1 (4-page) Player’s Aid Card
• 36 Special Scenario Rule cards
  

You can purchase the Print-and-Play version here.