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ALBANS, Hertfordshire, 22 May, 1455 ............. 3  \nBLORE HEATH, Sta൵ordshire, 23 September, 1459..... 6  \n2nd ST. ALBANS, Hertfordshire, 17 February, 1461..... 10  \nTOWTON, Yorkshire, 29 March, 1461 .......................... 15  \nBARNET, Greater London Area, 14 April, 1471............ 19  \nTEWKESBURY, Gloucestershire, 4 May, 1471 ............. 22  \nBOSWORTH, Leicestershire, 22 August, 1485.............. 26  \nCombat Example............................................................. 31  \nMen of Iron Tri-Pack Counter Manifest (fronts) ............ 34  \nExtended Sequence of Play............................................. 36  \nGMT Games, LLC  \nP.O. Box 1308, Hanford, CA 93232-1308 [www.GMTGames.com](www.GMTGames.com)  \n© 2026 GMT Games, LLC  \nPREFACE  \nThe historical irony of the Wars of the Roses is that, while  \nthey were a major turning point in the life of England  \n(and considered as the end of The Middle Ages), the battles therein are, for the most part, so poorly covered that we know very little de¿nitively about most of them. The wars were fought by Men of Iron, literally. But how many, and, sometimes even where, is a matter of guesstimation. One thing we do know is that the battle¿elds were quite small.  \nThe Wars of the Roses were, at their heart, a conÀict between two branches of the Plantagenet family which had ruled England for three hundred years. Local nobles used the conÀict to gain power over their rivals. Families like the Nevilles decided to support the Yorkist side to strike out against their local rivals, such as the Duke of Somerset and the Earl of Northumberland. These rivalries and the very nature of civil war made the conÀict particularly brutal. There were many instances of a side calling ‘No Quarter’ and slaughtering their Àeeing foes, as well as executions of captured nobles.  \nIn this conÀict, the soldiers on both sides wore heavier armor than in the past, as defensive technologies had evolved from the Hundred Years Wars. Consequently, heavier hand-to-hand weapons were used to defeat the heavier armor. Pikes and spears were replaced by bills, halberds, and other pole-arms among the common foot soldiers. Men-at-Arms discarded their shield to use two-handed swords, axes, and maces to batter their opponents into submission, even if their armor could not reliably be penetrated. Men-at-Arms tended to dismount in combat to ¿ght on foot, rather risk their prized, and expensive, warhorses to longbow ¿re and other loss in combat. The longbow was still a fearsome weapon, but due to the heavier armor, not as feared as in the Hundred Years War where it helped the English win stunning victories when properly employed. Gunpowder weapons began appearing in greater numbers on the battle¿eld during this time period and  \nthe ease of training soldiers in their use would eventually spell the end of the longbow, though this would not occur for sometime. These factors meant that most battles were fought largely on foot by tightly packed, slowly moving groups of heavily armored men, which had to beat on each other for quite sometime before reaching a resolution. There are few sweeping cavalry charges in the battles. The tactics of the time seem to consist of lining up and going at each other until one side has had enough and quits the battle¿eld. Many of the casualties were inÀicted while the losing side was Àeeing from the battle.  \nMilitarily, both sides of the conÀict were often evenly matched as far as troop quality and tactics, since the vast majority of the combatants were English and sometimes recruited within miles of each other. This meant that leadership, both on the battle¿eld and leading up to the battle, often proved crucial. Many Yorkist commanders, such as Edward IV and Richard, Duke of Gloucester, were talented military leaders who won nume","cbCaifEouY1NQuNL","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifEouY1NQuNL","pdf",4887822,36,"English","# Preface\n## Table of Contents\n## Notes on Setup and Selecting Units\n## 1st St. Albans\n## Historical Background\n## Combat Example\n## Men of Iron Tri-Pack Counter Manifest","[{\"question\":\"What historical context does the preface provide for the Wars of the Roses?\",\"answer\":\"It describes the Wars of the Roses as a brutal conflict between two Plantagenet branches for control of England, shaped by local rivalries and power struggles among nobles.\"},{\"question\":\"How did equipment and weapons change according to the preface?\",\"answer\":\"Heavier armor became more common, leading to more use of heavier hand-to-hand weapons. 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