Historical Note : The game’s title refers to the heavy casualty rates and the names given to many of the fields after the battles: Bloody Meadow, Bloody Field, et al.īlood & Roses is designed for quick learning and easy play. Most fighting was on foot … and it was quite vicious. And while many English men-at-arms were mounted, they did so almost entirely for transport.
It was also the introduction of gunpowder – mostly field artillery – in noticeable numbers. This was warfare in which most men were truly 'of iron', heavily and totally armored to such a point that their mobility was suspect. GMT’s series on Warfare in the Middle Ages, Men of Iron, enables you to see and simulate a major turning point in military weaponry and tactics, with the third game in the series, Blood & Roses.īlood & Roses focuses on the battles of the Wars of the Roses in England, between 14.
