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Flintloque

This page gives you some information and useful links about the world's greatest and biggest black powder fantasy wargame system Flintloque 3rd Edition.  Flintloque is a skirmish game where you take charge of a section of characters in one of two dozen different armies in a world at war.  Narrative driven, full of fun and unlike any other wargame out there.  You can choose where you jump in with a choice of interchangeable game books all with full rules and also an artillery expansion book.


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FLINTLOQUE THE SKIRMISH - WAR IN CATALUCIA

THE FIRST BOOK IN THE SERIES FOR FLINTLOQUE 3RD EDITION A  FANTASY MINIATURES GAME SET IN THE WORLD OF VALON A REALM OF NAPOLEONIQUE WARFARE.

NOW THAT THE BINDS OF WYLDE MAGICKE HAVE BEEN LOOSENED THE TYRANT ELVEN EMPEROR MORDRED LEADS THE FERACH EMPIRE ON WARS OF  CONQUEST USING THE POWER OF BLACK POWDER.  WITH CATALUCIA UNDER HIS HEEL THE EMPEROR NOW WANTS AL-GARVEY TOO BUT THE ‘IRON DUKE’  GENERAL WHEELING-TURN AND HIS ORCISH RED COATS STAND AGAINST HIM. 

CONTENTS: FULL RULES, THE WAR IN CATALUCIA, THE ARMIES OF CATALUCIA, CHARACTER AND SECTION GENERATION AND SKILLS, SOLO PLAY, SCENARIO CREATION AND THREE STARTER SCENARIOS, PULL OUT SHEETS (SECTION  ROSTER, GAME COUNTERS, QUICK REFERENCE) AND MUCH MORE...


FLINTLOQUE THE SKIRMISH - DEATH IN THE SNOW

THE SECOND BOOK FOR FLINTLOQUE 3RD EDITION SET IN THE WORLD OF VALON INTRODUCES THE UNDEAD AND THEIR VAMPYRE MASTERS.

THE ELVEN EMPEROR MORDRED SEEKS AN EVEN GREATER SOURCE OF POWER AND ASSEMBLING THE BIGGEST ARMY VALON HAS EVEN KNOWN HE INVADES THE  WITCHLANDS.  BUT THE ELVES AND THEIR ALLIES UNCOVER A FROZEN HORROR WHEN THEY ARE OVERWHELMED BY THE DARK CZAR’S ENDLESS BATTALIONS OF THE UNDEAD.   AND SO BEGINS THE HELLISH RETREAT FROM MOSKOVA.

CONTENTS: FULL RULES, THE WITCHLANDS WAR, THE ARMIES OF THE UNDEAD, THE GRANDE ARMEE DU NORDE, CHARACTER AND SECTION  GENERATION AND SKILLS, SOLO PLAY, SCENARIO CREATION AND THREE STARTER SCENARIOS, PULL OUT SHEETS (SECTION  ROSTER, GAME COUNTERS I & II)  AND MUCH MORE...


FLINTLOQUE THE SKIRMISH - GRAPESHOTTE

THE THIRD BOOK IN THE SERIES FOR FLINTLOQUE 3RD EDITION BRINGS THE QUEENE OF BATTLE - THE ARTILLERY - TO THE WORLD OF VALON.  NAPOLEONIQUE SKIRMISH INCREASES IN CALIBRE WITH FULL RULES FOR  ARTILLERY IN FLINTLOQUE ALONG WITH OTHER SPECIALIST RULES FOR FORTIFICATIONS, SAPPERS, BREACHES, MINES AND MORE.  

ALSO INCLUDED IS THE ARMOURY, AN ACCOUNT OF ALL THE COMMON AND UNIQUE FIRELOCKS USED BY ALL THE ARMIES OF VALON.

FOR USE WITH ALL FLINTLOQUE GAME BOOKS, SUCH AS WAR IN CATALUCIA AND DEATH IN THE SNOW, THIS EXPANSION BRINGS GUNNERS INTO THEIR OWN!  PULL OUT TEMPLATES FOR CANNON FIRE, HOWITZER BLAST AND GRENADES.


FLINTLOQUE THE SKIRMISH - BIER & BONES

THE FORTH BOOK IN THE SERIES FOR FLINTLOQUE 3RD EDITION SEES THE OSTARIAN EMPIRE FIGHTING FOR ITS LIFE AGAINST THE FERACH.

BEFORE THE INVASION OF THE WITCHLANDS AND THE CANKER OF THE   CATALUCIAN ULCER THE EMPEROR MORDRED FORGED THE CONFEDERATION OF FINKLESTEIN AND SUBDUED BURROVIA BEFORE TAKING HIS ARMEE AGAINST THE DOGMEN OF OSTARIA AT THE BATTLE OF OSTERBLITZ.  SOON THE DWARVES OF KRAUTIA  JOINED THE FRAY AND THE FUTURE OF VALON WAS FOR THE TAKING.... 

CONTENTS: FULL RULES, THE WARS OF UROP, THE ARMIES OF OSTARIA,  KRAUTIA, BURROVIA AND OTHER MINOR POWERS AND ALLIES. CHARACTER AND SECTION  GENERATION AND SKILLS, SOLO PLAY, SCENARIO CREATION AND THREE STARTER SCENARIOS, PULL OUT SHEETS (SECTION  ROSTER, GAME COUNTERS I & II) AND MUCH MORE...