Wargaming with Jacobites 1745

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The Jacobite Rising of 1745 offers a widely varied portfolio of very playable actions ranging from small unit skirmishes up to larger battles involving several brigades on either side - and the purpose of this handbook is not to lay out a prescribed set of rules for Highland warfare but to highlight the salient features of the armies involved and more importantly how the battles were actually fought, in order that existing preferred sets of rules can be adapted according to personal taste. As will soon be apparent although the Jacobites present a colourful and exciting alternative to more familiar 18th century armies, their organisation and fighting methods were not so very different from that of some of their contemporaries and recreating both armies and battles are surprisingly straightforward.