"The Great Battles of History series is back with Devil's Horsemen, an examination of the military tactics of steppe tribe warfare, as immortalized by the mighty armies of Genghis Khan and the Mongols. The game focuses on cavalry and archery action, featuring mounted archers of exceptional skill. Devil's Horsemen depicts the four major battles of the era—The Indus, The Kalka, Liegnitz and Ayn Jalut."
This Richard Berg and Mark Herman game is the tenth game in GMT's hugely successful GBoH series. It covers four of the major battles fought in the West to build the word's largest empire. Unfortunately, our histories of these conquerors were all written by the conquered. The four maps (2 full size backprinted mapsheets) are plain but that's the way plains (steeps) are. The 980 counters are the usual nice-looking, crowded with information GMT fare. The scenario book includes the necessary information to adapt Devil's Horsemen to the Simple GBoH rules. 100 yards/hex, 20 minutes/turn, 500 foot or 350 mounted/unit. |