Renaissance of Infantry, subtitled Tactical Warfare, 1250 A.D. to 1550 A.D., is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. in 1970. It was designed by Albert A. Nofi with graphics by Redmond A. Simonsen and first appeared as Tactical Game 14, a pull-out game in issue 22 of the magazine Strategy and Tactics in September 1970, before being sold as a boxed set and a flat-pack tray edition. The game sets out to show how infantry gradually overtook cavalry as the dominant arm of medieval armies, and it simulates twenty famous battles including Bannockburn, Crecy, Bicocca and Agincourt. It comes with 500 counters, a paper hex map scaled at 100 metres per hex and a sheet of rules. In 1975 the publisher reworked it as Yeoman, part of the PRESTAGS series of pre-seventeenth century tactical games. Contemporary reviewers praised it as fast and bloody, magazine editors listed it among the top wargames of all time, and it was chosen for the 2007 book Hobby Games: The 100 Best.
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Playing Time PublisherSPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.) 2 Game Category Game Category Game Category Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game MechanicRatio / Combat Results Table 2 Game MechanicScenario / Mission / Campaign Game 2 Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Minimum Players Maximum Players Sport
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1. Renaissance of Infantry (Wikipedia)
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is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications in 1970
2. Renaissance of Infantry: Tactical Warfare, 1250 A.D-1550 A.D (BoardGameGeek)
- Playing Time: 240
- Designer: Albert A. Nofi
- Publisher: SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.)
- Game Category: Medieval
- Game Category: Renaissance
- Game Category: Wargame
- Game Mechanic: Dice Rolling
- Game Mechanic: Grid Movement
- Game Mechanic: Hexagon Grid
- Game Mechanic: Line of Sight
- Game Mechanic: Movement Points
- Game Mechanic: Ratio / Combat Results Table
- Game Mechanic: Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game
- Game Mechanic: Simulation
- Game Mechanic: Variable Set-up
- Minimum Players: 1
- Maximum Players: 2
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