Flashing Steel is a fast paced, skirmish level, romantic Late Renaissance, miniature war-game system for two or more players. Based on the popular Song of Blades and Heroes mechanics, the rules are simple to learn but laden with lots of crunchy tweaks. This is both a war-game and a chance to do a little story-telling about your army.
1560 to, say, the early 1700’s: the Age of Exploration. Religious wars tear Europe apart. Families are split by the English Civil War. The Dutch break away from Spain after a titanic 80 year struggle. Spain attempts and fails to invade England in the largest naval operation to that date. The seas are opened to suicidally brave mariners who bring back the wealth from the New World, and who are in turn harried by Privateers from every other nation. The Turks knock on the borders of the Holy Roman Empire. Sweden grows to be one of the First Nations, and then recedes again. Transylvanians sweep down from their forests. And Shakespeare writes about it all.
Save the Queen from the machinations of the only man who really has a plan for the kingdom; resist the the spread of poisonous Protestantism; scheme with the revolutionaries to assassinate the Prince; board the enemy vessel and take what is not yours by right. And through it all, do it with style: in well dressed simplicity, an easy smile and a cutting remark, and murderous slash with your sword that leaves enemies cowed and ladies fanning themselves.
Do you have what it takes to survive during the Peak of European Civilisation?
Flashing Steel 
I just bought the Flashing Steel rules wholly on the basis that you guys are working on a supplement for the Scarlet Pimpernel. Great job and looking forward to reading more about your upcoming projects! I’m a big fan of the SobH rules, and Flashing Steel looks like it will be a lot of fun!
All the best.
Giles.
Welcome, Giles. Hope you enjoy the Flashing Steel rules. I will put up an announcement about how Scarlet Pimpernel is going soon. It is well advanced – though actual publication depends on whatever Andrea has on the overall production plate.
Andrew
Where Muskuteer profiles ever published?
Good call. Most of my time has been spent pursuing the new work of Forged in Blood and Scarlet Pimpernel but you are absolutely right, we need to publish some profiles for the land forces as well as the pirate profiles that came out in the book. I’ll talk to Andrea about getting some profiles into the Ganesha magazine, Talespinner.
Thanks again,
Andrew