War of the Austrian Succession

Fight across the battlefields of eighteenth-century Europe in War of the Austrian Succession, a detailed tactical wargame covering the major campaigns, battles, and theaters of the vast dynastic conflict that reshaped the balance of power in Europe. From Mollwitz and Chotusitz to Dettingen, Fontenoy, Rocoux, Lauffeld, and Culloden, War of the Austrian Succession places you in command of the armies that fought for crowns, territory, dynastic survival, and continental dominance. What began as a

Fight across the battlefields of eighteenth-century Europe in War of the Austrian Succession, a detailed tactical wargame covering the major campaigns, battles, and theaters of the vast dynastic conflict that reshaped the balance of power in Europe. From Mollwitz and Chotusitz to Dettingen, Fontenoy, Rocoux, Lauffeld, and Culloden, War of the Austrian Succession places you in command of the armies that fought for crowns, territory, dynastic survival, and continental dominance. What began as a succession crisis following the death of Holy Roman Emperor Karl VI quickly expanded into a sprawling European war involving Austria, Prussia, France, Britain, Bavaria, Spain, Sardinia, the Dutch Republic, Jacobite rebels, and countless allied states and auxiliary formations. Take command in War of the Austrian Succession, where detailed tactical maps and historically grounded orders of battle place you in control of armies fighting across snow-covered plains, fortified cities, mountain passes, rivers, villages, and sprawling continental battlefields. Every battle is shaped by the realities of eighteenth-century warfare: rigid linear tactics, cavalry shock action, artillery deployment, militia reliability, command limitations, fatigue, terrain, morale, and the growing importance of light troops and maneuver warfare.