Dell’arte Della Guerra - campaign and battlefield rules for the Italian Renaissance

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This set of table-top and campaign rules are designed to be used to represent
the period of the early renaissance in Italy in the second half of the 15 Century. Each player represents a family of Condottiere, who take on contracts on behalf of one of the great Italian powers and fight each other in one of the endemic wars between
these powers.

Real Time Wargames Gamebooks aim to inspire new and veteran Wargamers alike with novel sets of rules for a variety of periods. The systems are adaptable to any scale between 2mm & 28mm.
This Gamebook contains:
 » A brief summary of the period and details of the forces of the participants.
 » A set of campaign rules including status sheets and counters.
 » A set of battlefield rules that can be used to resolve campaign actions or can be used independently to fight one-off battles of the period.

The rules are all “period specific” thus avoiding the need to write them in a way that they need to cover every eventuality in a large range of campaigns or theatres of war. Instead they concentrate on a specific war and model just the key features of that campaign, making for brief but historical rules.