Monday, 29 September 2025

Massed 'Dominion of' titles!

 Well, this lot popped through the door recently, a very nice treat. 


Many, many pre-printed 'Dominion of the' titles. These are all Lulu prints which are so much nicer than my homegrown printing efforts and only a couple of pounds more than the PDF equivalents.


As I'm planning on running Alexander the Brief at a few more events, the author very kindly sent me a couple of display copies of Dominion of the Spear and Dominion of Pike and Shot. An added bonus is that these books also contain all the scenarios for each period as well. Result!

The only downside to having the books is that they don't come with a separate QRS. As John Salt discovered with the WRG (neu) rules, Lulu seem incapable of printing those. But fear not, the QRS is printed on the back cover of the book! A very clever solution. 


I've already got the PDF of Frederick the Great, but I also ordered the Lulu version as it is so much nicer. I was vaguely thinking of doing a mini campaign of the '45 using them, but then I discovered that this edition also includes the AWI/Stuart rebellion etc already (Dominion of the Claymore/Tomahawk?). So that has saved me the bother and includes an extra battle I'd never even heard of from the '45.


Being long interested in the WSS, I just had to have this too. As an added bonus it includes a load of stuff for the ever mysterious Great Northern War as well. A period I've always been vaguely interested in, but could never be bothered to actually do anything about it. Now I have rules and a ton of historical scenarios, there is no excuse. 

What a fantastically good value set of stuff. I'd highly recommend the Lulu versions of these rules as they are very inexpensive and look so much better than my PDF prints. Hats off to those of you who understand the mysteries of booklet printing and can do it themselves, personally I'd rather pay a bit more for someone else to figure out how to do that.


2 comments:

  1. I've been doing some cheeky printing and binding at work for my "Dominion of" rulesets - someone has to keep the knowledge of the old technology alive...

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    1. I was pretty expert with the ring binding machine at work. Ahem. Sadly not an option now I'm retired. The push fit binders work OK, but only for thicker documents. I've no idea if you can even buy those any more, and we also seem to have run out of paper clips at home. All this twentieth-century tech!

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