Age of Muskets Volume I: Tomb for an Empire (English)

Tomb for an Empire" reflects the struggle that took place on the Iberian Peninsula from 1808 to 1814. It was a very complex war since troops and interests from very diverse nations were involved: Great Britain sent its army to defend Portugal and continue its fight against France ?in the context of the great European Coalitions against it, in Spain itself the war took on the character of a civil war since the supporters of reforms in the monarchical regime confronted the defenders of absolutism and , all of them with the name of "Patriots" confronted the puppet monarchy of José I Bonaparte and the occupation of Spanish soil by French troops and their allies - Italians, Neapolitans, Poles, Germans, Swiss, Dutch and the Spanish "Sworn ?. Spanish, British and Portuguese form a "Band", the ally. France and its allies and satellites form the "Imperial Bando". One player (or team) controls each side. The game allows play the entire war from July 1808 to April 1814, start the entire campaign at various later dates - November 1808, May 1809, January 1810, January 1811, or February 1812 - play only parts or campaigns -The War in Levante from 1809 to 1813, Napoleon's campaign- or just a few loose battles -Salamanca, Vitoria...
The title highlights the importance that the struggle in Spain had for the Napoleonic Empire.

Components:

• 2 maps of 70x50 cm (they form a map of the Iberian Peninsula of 70x100 cm)
• 8 Terrain Tabs for pitched battles
• 2 sets of Player Aid Sheets (3 Sheets in each set)
• 3 Headquarters Deployments
• 2 d10 dice
• 1 set of Army Sheets (with permission to photocopy them).
• 1264 counters (6 templates)
• 1 Booklet of Rules of the Series ?Age of Muskets?< /span>
• 1 ?Tomb for an Empire? Exclusive Rules booklet, Scenarios and historical and designer notes.

"Tomb for an Empire" is not "a game". It has 6 introductory battle scenarios -to learn how to handle the battle subsystem- and 18 campaign scenarios, which are ordered in progressive complexity and go from the 1st (Bailén, with less than one turn in duration) to the entire campaign. start from any year (scenarios 14 to 18). Each turn gives a lot of itself and many things can happen in each of them. It is the first volume of the Series? The Age of the Muskets?.