Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Welcome to the first compendium to the Valour & Fortitude rules. It was just over a year ago that we published the second edition of Valour & Fortitude in Wargames Illustrated. In the last twelve months we’ve added numerous new army sheets to the game, so that they now cover most of the armies that took part in the Napoleonic wars, as well as armies from several other conflicts. This supplement includes the army sheets we’ve brought out for the American Civil War and Franco-Prussian War, plus two brand-new and never-seen-before army sheets covering the First Carlist War. The American Civil War was one of the most important conflicts of the 19th Century, and a wargaming period that is only surpassed by Napoleonic battles and World War Two in its popularity. Ideating the representation of post-Napoleonic Wars technology was challenging; luckily for me, John Simmons lent his encyclopaedic knoweldge of the period to the effort. The result is a pair of army sheets that demonstrate the revoutionising impact that new weaponry, like rifled muskets and sophisticated artillery, had on battle methods. The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 was another fascinating conflict. Even though it was fought only a few years after the American Civil War, it saw the introduction of breech-loading rifles, machine-guns, and modern breech-loading artillery. It was a highly asymmetrical conflict, with the French benefiting from having longer-ranged Chassepot rifles, and the Prussians from their revolutionary Krupp artillery. For V&F, it took a considerable amount of fine-tuning to reflect the benefits of the new types of weaponry without over-stating its impact. The First Carlist War is a more obscure conflict. It took place from 1833 to 1840, and was fought between the conservative Carlists and the more progressive Isabelinoes. Both sides used uniforms, weapons, and tactics very similar to those used in the Napoleonic Wars, but several factors made the conflict a unique one. The Carlist armies came from quite mountainous regions, and primarily used light infantry tactics. Although they were led by some exceptional commanders, they were hindered by a severe lack of ammunition, and infantry units often went into combat with fewer than half a dozen rounds of ammunition each. The Isabelinoes fielded a more conventional army, and had somewhat less inspired leadership, but benefited from the support of British, French, and Portuguese troops. All in all, it is a colourful and unusual conflict that featured many of the characteristics of the Spanish Civil War fought a century later. When taken together, the six army sheets included here show how warfare evolved and changed from the Napoleonic period through to the FrancoPrussian War, however, these army
