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Osprey’s Blue Wargame Series continues to roll on with this release. The focus in these rules is Pike and Shot battles of the 17th century. However, unlike many games from this genre it is focused on skirmish between small units as opposed to full scale battles. If you are familiar with the Rampant series of rules, then you know the scale and design philosophy behind these rules. Before reading further, I recommend you take a look at my Lion Rampant and Dragon Rampant reviews first. Pikeman’s Lament uses the same core rules with some improvements. With that in mind, this review will try to focus on the difference between this rules set and the previous two that were mentioned.

You can find all the juicy details at my blog.
http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2017/01/ospreys-blue-wargame-series-continues.html

I'm tempted by this ruleset for some reason I can't quite put my finger on, especially since I've never had much of an interest in 17th century warfare, and I don't know of anyone else who'd be up for collecting a force. But the proliferation of plastics under Warlord has made collecting models for this set of rules easy and cheap.