Balkan Wars book - updated edition

Our Balkan Wars scenario book, Bloody Big Balkan Battles!, is now available in an updated edition in pdf (from SkirmishCampaigns) and print (from On Military Matters).

BBBB lets you refight those great battles of 1912-1913, the prelude to WWI, that saw the end of the Ottoman Empire in Europe and the formation of the basic modern borders in the Balkans. This expanded edition now includes 18 scenarios:

The First Balkan War, 1912-1913

Sarantaporo (Ottomans vs Greeks)

Kirkilisse        (Ottomans vs Bulgarians)

Kumanovo     (Ottomans vs Serbs)

Lule Burgas   (Ottomans vs Bulgarians)

Yiannitsa       (Ottomans vs Greeks)

Prilep              (Ottomans vs Serbs)

Monastir         (Ottomans vs Serbs)

Chataldja       (Ottomans vs Bulgarians)

Bizani             (Ottomans vs Greeks)

 

The Second Balkan War, 1913

Bregalnitza    (Bulgarians vs Serbs)

Kilkis-Lahana (Bulgarians vs Greeks)

Doiran            (Bulgarians vs Greeks)

Kalimantsi     (Bulgarians vs Serbs)

Kresna Gorge (Bulgarians vs Greeks)

Additional scenarios                                

                        Aleksinac       (Ottomans vs Serbs, 1876)

                        Velestino       (Ottomans vs Greeks, 1897)

                        Gribovo          (Ottomans vs Greeks, 1897)

                        Driskos           (Ottomans vs Greeks, 1912)

To help players to portray the complex terrain of the Balkans on their tabletops, we also plan shortly to make available files for printing custom battlemats for each scenario. Follow this blog or join the BBB io group to keep informed about this.