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For this one we’re stepping back a generation from the English Civil War, to the tumultuous opening decades of the Seventeenth Century - Jacobean England under the Stuart ascendancy. A febrile time of spies, conspirators and insurrectionists; recusant householders of the old faith sheltering wily Jesuits and other assorted enemies of the state.
Ranged against them are sworn household men of the Crown’s loyal officers - intelligencers, agents, enforcers and inquisitors. Plus Gentlemen Pensioners, Yeoman of The Guard, and other forces of the state.
Not forgetting a colourful background cast of actors and playwrights; whores and apothecaries; doctors of magick, alchemists, astrologers and so on. It’s a setting rich in possibilities.
The original concept was a set of figures for skirmish games loosely based around the Gunpowder Plot - and this first Jacobean release indeed caters to that infamous episode.
But the figures can be used for all sorts of encounters set in this slightly earlier period - from the Dutch Revolt to the Thirty Years War.
They lend themselves exceptionally well to games set in the English plantations in early colonial era North America. Also to the ‘folk horror’ genre currently back in fashion thanks to the ‘Devilry Afoot’ rules.
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