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Blood & Roses

By: GMT Games

Type: Boxed Game

Product Line: Men of Iron Series


Product Info

Title
Blood & Roses
Publisher
Product Line
Category
Sub-category
Author
Richard Berg
Publish Year
2014
Dimensions
9x12x2"
NKG Part #
2147541232
MFG. Part #
GMT1319
Type
Boxed Game
Age Range
10 Years and Up
# Players
1 - 2 Players
Game Length
120 Minutes

Description

Men of Iron is a play-orientated series of games covering the wide spectrum of land battles from, roughly, the era just prior to the first crusades to the arrival of gunpowder. This is a historical simulation series not so much intended to show what happened, but why things occurred as they did.

Blood & Roses focuses on the battles of the Wars of the Roses in England, between 1455 and 1487. This was warfare in which most men were truly "of iron", heavily and totally armored to such a point that their mobility was suspect. It was also the introduction of gunpowder – mostly field artillery – in noticeable numbers. And while many English men-at-arms were mounted, they did so almost entirely for transport. Most fighting was on foot … and it was quite vicious.

Components:

  • Two 16" x 34" backprinted maps
  • Two and 1/2 Color Countersheets
  • Two 11" x 25" Player Aid Cards
  • One 8.5" x 11" Player Aid Card
  • Rule Book
  • Battle Book
  • Two 10-sided dice