April 25, 2024
Lion of the North (GMT)
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If you are a collector of wargames, you want it pristine, unpunched and shrink-wrapped – and you’ll pay a hefty price for the privilege. But if you plan to play the damn thing, why not get one in equally fine condition, but with the 480 counters already neatly punched, trimmed, sorted, and ready to play right out of the box. Here’s your chance with GMT’s Lion of the North, an out-of-print, third volume in its popular and critically acclaimed Great Battles of History (GBoH) series.The box and all contents are in excellent condition. Complete. The war for minds and souls had been raging for ten destructive years when the vaunted, virtually undefeated Catholic army of the Hapsburg emperor and his allied German states looked across the gentle valley of Breitenfeld directly into the blinding rays of the dawn of modern warfare. By the end of the day, Tilly's lumbering army lay smashed beyond redemption, the victim of rapid-firing artillery, fast-moving infantry and hard-charging cavalry. The prediction had come true: Breitenfeld signaled the ascendancy of Gustavus II Adolphus, King of Sweden, the Lion of the North. The Thirty Years' War signaled the dawn of modern warfare ... a return to the supremacy of linear tactics, drill and discipline, to what some historians call "the return of the legion." Lion of the North represents two of
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