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Born in Weimar in the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Bernard was the eleventh son of Johann, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Dorothea Maria of Anhalt.. Bernard received an unusually good education and studied briefly at the University of Jena, but soon went to the court of Duke John Casimir of Saxe-Coburg to engage in knightly exercises.
Thirty Years War, subtitled "Four Battles", is a "quadrigame" — four separate board wargames packaged in one box that use a common set of rules — published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1976. The four games simulate different battles during the Thirty Years' War, and were sold individually as well as in the quadrigame format ...
Following the Swedish defeat at the Battle of Nördlingen in 1634, Bernhard's mercenary army had come under the pay of France. Having been pushed to the west bank of the Rhine by the Imperial advance, Bernhard's army had settled in Alsace during 1635 and had done little except help repulse the Imperial invasion of France under the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand and Matthias Gallas in 1636.
The complete Wings of Liberty campaign, full use of Raynor, Kerrigan, and Artanis Co-Op Commanders, with all others available for free up to level five, full access to custom games, including all races, AI difficulties, maps; unranked multiplayer, with access to Ranked granted after the first 10 wins of the day in Unranked or Versus AI.
The Battle of Nördlingen [b], fought over two days from 5 to 6 September 1634, was a major battle of the Thirty Years' War.A Imperial-Spanish force led by the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand and Ferdinand of Hungary inflicted a crushing defeat on the Swedish-German army led by Gustav Horn and Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar.
In Issue 25 of the UK wargaming magazine Phoenix, Chris Bramall was impressed by the strategic thinking necessary, and wrote "it is my belief that Rocroi is the best game of the four [in the Thirty Years War quadrigame]. Admittedly it lacks balance but only if the French player is skilful.
Tannenberg (Test Series, 1969 / Second edition published in S&T #69 as companion game to The Great War in the East quadrigame, 1978) Task Force (1981) Tchernaya River (Crimean War quadrigame, 1978) Terrible Swift Sword (1976) Thirty Years War (quadrigame, 1976) Time Tripper (1980) Titan Strike (1979) Tito and his Partisan Army: Yugoslavia, 1941 ...
In his 1977 book The Comprehensive Guide to Board Wargaming, Nick Palmer thought that Freiburg was "awful", and called it the "Unsatisfactory component of the otherwise excellent Thirty Years War Quad." He noted that "the Campaign game is unplayable due to certain baffling misprints." He concluded "the game remains a series of slogging matches."