BARRAGE

Piquet Supplement for Early Twentieth Century Warfare

1904-1935

BARRAGE covers:
Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905
World War I 1914-1918 (All Fronts)
Russian Civil War 1918-1921
Russo-Polish War 1919-1920

Other Wars in this era that could use the basic BARRAGE rules:
Balkan Wars of 1912-1913
Greco-Turkish Wars of the 1920s
Chinese Warlord period of the 1920s and 1930s

Scale:
1" = 25 yards
1 infantry unit is a company (4 stands)
1 cavalry unit is a squadron (4 stands)
1 Machine-gun unit is a Machine-gun section or platoon (1 stand – representing 2 Machine guns)
1 Artillery unit is a battery (2 stands per battery – 2-3 guns per stand)
1 Tank or Armored Car unit is 2-3 vehicles (represented by 1 model)
1 turn = 15 minutes

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German 21cm Lange Morser (15mm scale) by Mal Wright

Basing:

  6mm 15mm 20mm/25mm Figures Per Base
Infantry .75" x .5" 1.5"x.75" 2"x 1" 3 Infantry
Machine guns .75" x .5" 1.0"x 1.0" 1.5"x 1.5" MG, gunner, loader
Trench Mortar .75" x .5" 1.25"x 1.25" 1.75"x 1.75" TM and two crew.
Artillery 1" x .75" 1.5"x 1.5" 2"x 2" Gun, 3 crew
Cavalry .75" x .5" 1.25"x 1.25" 2"x 2" 2 Troopers

 

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Red Army Lettish Rifles - 15mm Peter Pig figures - by Eric Burgess

Barrage is available from Piquet Inc.!!
BARRAGE is available directly from Piquet Inc. Visit the Piquet website for order information.

OK, what is included in BARRAGE?
Point of Attack: 20th Century Warfare Master Rules
Supplemental Rules for Barrage
Tables of Organization & Equipment and Army Ratings (Sample)
Battles, Offensives and Sequence Deck Lists (over 200 battles listed)
Period/Theatre Specific Stratagems

What is covered in BARRAGE?
Machine Guns (Target Reference Points, Area Fire), Flamethrowers, the introduction of Light machine guns, tanks, armored cars, armored trains, SOS barrages, Interdiction Barrages, Creeping Barrages, Smoke, Gas, Air support, theatre specific stratagems for spice, Pre-Battle Bombardment, and much more!

View the BARRAGE cover! PDF format (190KB) - JPG format (662KB)

See the Review of Barrage on the WargameReview Website by Andy Finkel.

If you have any questions please drop me an e-mail: Eric Burgess (author)

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