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Mercenary, subtitled "Merchant Princes Alter the Course of World Events", is a board game published by Fantasy Games Unlimited (FGU) in 1975 that is a game of conquest set in medieval Europe during the period 1494–1560. Critics complained that there were large gaps in the rules.
Routiers (French:) were mercenary soldiers of the Middle Ages. Their particular distinction from other paid soldiers of the time was that they were organised into bands ( rutta or routes ). [ 1 ] The term is first used in the 12th century but is particularly associated with free companies who terrorised the French countryside during the Hundred ...
During the later Middle Ages, Free Companies (or Free Lances) were formed, consisting of companies of mercenary troops. Nation-states lacked the funds needed to maintain standing forces, so they tended to hire free companies to serve in their armies during wartime. [50]
These are board wargames set in the Middle Ages or medieval period, which in the history of Europe lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries. Pages in category "Board wargames set in the Middle Ages"
Greek Mercenaries: From the Late Archaic Period to Alexander. Routledge, 2004. [ISBN missing] Yalichev, Serge. Mercenaries of the Ancient World. Constable, 1997. [ISBN missing] Medieval. France, John, ed. "Mercenaries and Paid Men: The Mercenary Identity in the Middle Ages". Smithsonian History of Warfare. Vol. 47. Brill, 2008. ISBN 9004164472
Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood, fresco on canvas by Paolo Uccello (1436). The White Company (Italian: Compagnia Bianca del Falco) was a 14th-century English mercenary Free company (Italian: Compagnia di ventura), led from its arrival in Italy in 1361 to 1363 by the German Albert Sterz and later by the Englishman John Hawkwood.
The game opens with a scene showing two anonymous mercenaries fighting each other during a clash between French and English troops. They converse as they fight, setting the tone of the game as they discuss the nature of mercenaries (who change sides as it suits them), how there is no real right or wrong in the war, and how time seems to be standing still (even though the game covers events ...
Byzantine mercenaries (4 C, 15 P) C. Condottieri (6 C, 2 P) J. Jomsvikings (23 P) M. Mercenary units and formations of the Middle Ages (3 C, 25 P) N. Norman ...