By Fire and Sword

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Juhu!!!!

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Kurzer Bericht über ein Divisions-Level Turnier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5k2SBZ7de8&feature=youtu.be

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New historical Skirmish Force - Swedish defense of Karelia in 1656


We're happy to present to you today the winner in our Historical Skirmish Force competition.

Authors: Juha Heinänen and Samu Somppi have done an excellent job preparing description of the Swedes and Muscovites forces, fighting during the first summer of the Russo-Swedish war of 1656-1658 in Finland.

Both Swedes and Muscovites players should be very happy with these forces. Swedes receive force with defensive skirmish rule and Muscovites are able to use – for the first time on the Skirmish level – units of dvorians and town streltsy as well and brand new and very interesting unit of the cossack boatmen.

We hope you will like both forces and we will see them during your battles. That's the best way you can express your appreciation for Juha and Samu's hard work! Also, we are waiting for pictures of both Skirmish Sets painted by you!

Of course, both forces will appear in our publication ,,Armies of By Fire and Sword".

You can download file here


By Fire and Sword Team

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News from "By Fire and Sword" Team

1.New releases – during next year you may expect a wave of new releases every month (largely sets unlocked during our KS campaign, but of course not only!). Next wave of releases will be announced at the end of August.

2.Of course we're also preparing brand news sets and refreshing old ones. Below you can see news models from SWE-4 set (reiters with arquebuses), they will replace current models within few weeks.

3.Changes in ,,By Fire and Sword" Team. Due to lot of other tasks Michał ,,Kadrinazi" Paradowski has decided he will be no longer moderator and administrator of our forum and will focus exclusively on writing new materials. All questions regarding BfaS forum should be addressed to Michal ,,Glorfindel" Molenda

4. Pola Chwały (Division level tournament, 26th-27th of September at Niepołomice Castle near Kraków) - we will have more news (including rulespack) at the begininng of the next week.

5. ,,Armies of By Fire and Sword" We have finished preparing materials for the first chapter of the AoBFaS. Materials have just been sent to Rafał (our graphic) and Maciek (our translator). Work on next chapters is also quite advanced.

By Fire and Sword Team

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Spielbericht auf Divisionsgröße. Polen vs Osmanen:
http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2015/08/by-fire-sword-sobieski-vs-turks-aar.html

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Schweden vs Tataren Teil 4:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTALx742ers&feature=youtu.be

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Nette Idee für das Zählen von Munition:
http://forum.oim.wargamer.pl/viewtopic.php?lang=en&f=59&t=6093&view=unread#unread

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New sets in our online store!

Today we have added new products to our online store.

SWE-15 Veteran Reiters



IMP-1 Imperial Commanders



IMP-2 Imperial cuirassiers in armor



SIE-2 Comitatus / Szekely cavalry



BRA-4 Prussian commanders



TER-40 Wooden walls 1



AKC-39  Forage markers



Here is a direct link to our webstore:

http://sklep.wargamer.pl/group/en/new-products/1/long/name/asc/3

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Neues Let`s Play Video. Top 5 Game Mechanismen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbem4nTqD-Y

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'Armies of By Fire and Sword. Volume I' approaches!

Our work on 'Armies of By Fire and Sword' are so advanced, that we've decided to share with You table of contents:




Royal City of Gdańsk – 2x skirmish + 2x divisions

Courland


Old (already available in Polish, some of the in English, all of them more or less modified) skirmish groups:

Gosiewski's Foray (Lithuania)

Cossacks from Ovruch's pulk

Muscovite skirmish from Khovansky's division in 1661

Haji Gerey skirmish (for both Turks and Tartars)

Swedish skirmish near Tykocin in 1656

Lithuanian skirmish under Michał Obuchowicz in 1660

Karelia in 1656: Swedes and Muscovites


New skirmish groups:

Cossacks and Tartars skirmish group - August 1651

Lipkas' skirmish from fortress of Bar, 1672+ (both Turks and Tartars)

Foray of garrison of Słuck in 1660 (both Poles and Lithuanians)

Swedish (Finnish) skirmish under general Horn in 1658

Muscovites under Alexander Potyomkin in 1658

Turkish garrison of Raszków in 1674

Polish-Transylvanian skirmish in 1653 (only for Polish army)

3x Noble levy skirmish group 1646-1660


Old divisions (all currently available in English):

- Tugay Bey (Tartars)

- Ivan Bohun in 1651 (Cossacks)

- Ivan Khovansky in 1660 (Muscovites)

- Robert Douglas in Courland in 1658-59 (Swedes)

- Cossack division from autumn 1648

- Hussein Pasha at Khotin in 1672 (Turks)

- Jan Sobieski at Podhajce in 1667 (Poles)

- prince Bogusław Radziwiłł (Poles and Brandenburg)


New divisions:

- Lithuanians of Pawel Jan Sapieha at Podole in autumn 1655

- Muscovites of Semen Urusov in autumn 1655

- Allied division at Ładyżyn – 18th July 1672 (Cossacks, Tartars and Turks)

- Allied avant-garde at Brześć in 1657 (Swedes, Brandenburg and Transylvanians)

- Swedes under Stenbock at Nowy Dwor in September 1655

- Cossacks under Anton Żdanowicz in Poland in 1657

- Muscovite border defence 1648-1676


Miscellaneous:

- Polish pułk of lanowa infantry from voivodship of Sandomierz in 1655

- Imperial cuirassier regiment of Caprara

- Cossack camp-master

- Turkish 'czaus' (sultan's messenger)

- Polish and Lithuanian volunteers and partisans' commanders


Note: this table of contents is not final, we may add (rather then remove) something for it. We show skirmish and division here as 'old' and 'new' to make it easier for You to spot new stuff; the way it will be presented in the book will be slightly different.

You may noticed that there are some currently available pdfs that are missing here: Danes, Swedes from border of Halland and Scania, 'The Invincibles', Czarniecki's division and Piaseczyński's regiment. The reason for it is simple – they will be published as a part of the another book, which will be focused on war in Denmark and Swedish Pomerania. Our reliable Michał 'Kadrinazi' Paradowski gathered plenty of materials and it's already working on it – we want to assure that it will be worth to wait for it, even if You don't play brave Danes. To answer any possible questions – not publishing date for this book yet.

Regarding 'Armies..' – we would like to publish them in December 2015. For the first time in history of BFaS we would like to publish both Polish and English versions on the same time.

By Fire and Sword Team

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Endlich ein adäquater Ersatz für die seit Jahren vergrfiffene GW-Matte:

Today we would like to present you second product to reach our webstore in the near future.

It's official "By Fire and Sword" Gaming Mat. It's 72" x 48" (183x122 cm) perfect for Skirmish level games as well as for smaller Division level games. The mats are made of foam and flocked with a thick layer of static grass which makes them very durable.

Beschaffenheit soll so sein wie die alte GW-Matte (nur besser). Kosten 150Zloty. Das sind ca 37€.

[lupo]

Sehr schön, da werden sich viele leute freuen

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Zur Info: Es gibt ne eine Charge an Würfeln. Diese neue Charge hat wie bei den drei neuen Sets (HRR, Transylvanien und Brandenburg-Preußen) das Symbol auf der 1 anstatt auf der 10.

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New sets in our online store!

Today we have added new long awaited products to our online store.

BRA-6 Brandenburgian light artillery



FLAG-IMP Sztandary cesarskie



ACK-38 Brandenburgian casualty markers



AKC-43 ,, By Fire and Sword" range finder




TER-35 "By Fire and Sword" gaming mat



TER-42 Noble House 2



below is the link to our webstore:

http://sklep.wargamer.pl/group/en/new-products/1/long/created_at/desc/3

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We proudly present you cover art from the Cossack Tabor box set which will be available in a few weeks. Box will contain 8 Cossack wagons (4 with cannons) and base of Cossack camp-master, new kind of commander whose rules will be published in "Armies of the By Fire and Sword"