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Hold the Line:
Highland Charge Expansion
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Hold the Line
now looks at one of the most fabled conflicts in history, the Jacobite
rebellions, in Highland Charge. These uprisings were, as of 2013, the last
battles fought on British soil. Featured here are five battles from the fearsome
contest: Sheriffmuir, Glen Shiel, Prestonpans, Falkirk, and Culloden. The game
closely aligns with the Hold the Line system, but includes rules for Highland
charges, Scottish militia, and of course the feared Highland clan units.
James II lost
his throne in 1689, but he and his supporters did not give the fight to reclaim
his rights and titles. From 1689 to 1745 no less than four major Jacobite
rebellions broke out in the Scottish highlands, often with limited aid from
France and Spain. The battles were the last hurrah for a dying way of war. The
Highlanders relied on assault tactics, in particular the feared Highland charge.
The Loyalists, made up of British regulars and Scottish militia, used the linear
tactics of the day, including volley fire, artillery barrages, and bayonets. For
a time the Highlanders seemed to be tactically superior until the shattering
defeat at Culloden, a battle that proved the ultimate superiority of musket and
artillery fire over the claymore.
As the Jacobites
can you reclaim the throne for the Stuart dynasty? As the Loyalists can you
protect the Hanoverian succession and deal a final death blow to absolutism in
Britain? Across the way the bagpipes can be heard. The clans have mustered, the
sound of cannon deafens, men shout commands, smoke fills the air. You must Hold
the Line!
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