Game Preview: BattleLore Scottish Wars
By W. Eric Martin
December 4, 2007
Publisher: Days of Wonder
Designer: Richard Borg
Players: 2
Playing Time: Varies
Price: $30
Release Date: End of December 2007
Hammer of the Scots from Jerry Taylor and Columbia Games has already given gamers one take on the Scottish wars for independence, but just as there’s more than one way to tell a story, there’s more than one way to depict history in games.
Thus, Days of Wonder is bringing us the highland battles from a perspective that stands about three feet high. Yes, the Dwarves are back in a Scottish Wars expansion for BattleLore, and they’re part of the battles to toss out the English Edwards. Here are this expansions contents:
- 42 sculpted new figures including: 6 Iron Dwarves Cattle Riders, 8 Iron Dwarves Clan Chiefs, 12 Mounted Knights, and 16 Iron Dwarves Spear Bearers
- 24 New banners (12 for each camp)
- Rules Booklet with 5 new adventures - Stirling Bridge, Falkirk, Bannockburn, Dupplin Moor and Neville’s Cross.
- Seven Specialist cards, three Unit Summary cards and two Weapon Summary cards
| Pictures - Click the picture for a larger version | |
 | The cover |
 | And the back |
 | That’s a mighty big pole you’re toting... |
 | Red Mounted Knights? Yes, thank you! |
 | Cover the field in dwarves |
Posted by W. Eric Martin on Dec 4, 2007 at 06:00 AM in Game Previews / 4374
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DoW has a secret plan to bankrupt me - between Memoir ‘44 & Battlelore, I will have no cash but a whole lot of small plastic figurines. Don’t take this as a cue to stop - I’m loving it! Posted by Mark "Fluff Daddy" Jackson on Dec 4, 2007 at 07:54 AM | #
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Oh noes! Scottish Dwarves…
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I’m sure to buy this, and yet I am a bit surprised Days of Wonder continues to walk past the gaping hole in their line… MONSTERS! When do we get to send our lancers against a fire-breathing dragon? Where are the flying monkeys from the Wicked Witch of the West? I get that Battlelore is at its base a combat unit vs. combat unit type game. But this fantasy setting is being underutilized, (IMO). Posted by Kevin_Whitmore on Dec 6, 2007 at 11:43 AM | #
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