The Twilight of the Divine rules is a set designed to fight large historical battles on a reasonable sized table and with a reasonable number of figures in the era of the Thirty Years War and English Civil Wars (1618 - 1660). The player is the army commander seeking to marshal the full forces that their historical counterpart had to achieve victory and not some colonel or brigadier controlling a few battalions or squadrons in the fight for some sector of a battlefield. The concentration is on the 'big picture' rather on relatively unimportant details. The rules reward historic tactics and practices while making typical 'gamer' tactics obsolete. So, players will want their forces to be in at least two lines with a reserve and not strung out in a line as is commonly done in other rules.

In addition to the scenarios in the rules there are currently three scenario books with scenarios of historical battles in Western and Central Europe in this era.

Scenario Books:

ECW: By the Sword Divided covers the battles of the English Civil Wars.

TYW1: Europe's Tragedy covers the battles of the Thirty Years War.

TYW2: To the Peace of the Pyrenees covers European battles from the Thirty Years War and the period up to 1663.

There is also a supplement to these rules, With Fire And Sword,  which extends these rules to Eastern Europe in this era along with three scenario books for these wars, see below.

For more detail on these rules click here Twilight of Divine Right.

You can purchase these on this catalogue page Divine Right Catalogue or via the Main Catalogue.

These rules and scenario books are published by the Pike and Shot Society.