"Bloody Big BATTLES!" now available in PDF

[Chris Pringle]

I know BBB has helped to sell a lot of Pendraken figures over the last decade. I hope that making the rules and scenario books available in PDF will open them up to even more players and sell even more 10mm figures! Here's the official announcement of the good news:

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SkirmishCampaigns: Bloody Big Battles now in PDF!

BBB PDF Order Page
https://skirmishcampaigns.com/bbb/

YES, the Bloody Big Battles! rules (BBB) and scenario books for a wide range of 19th-century and Napoleonic wars are now available in PDF

BBB Scenario Books

• Bloody Big European Battles!
• NAPOLEON'S Bloody Big Battles!
• Bloody Big Battles in INDIA!
• Bloody Big Balkan Battles! (1912-1913)
• Bloody Big HUNGARY '48 Battles!
• Bloody Big Peninsular Battles! (1808-1814) (forthcoming)
• Bloody Big Battles in Africa! (1801-1901) (forthcoming)
• Bloody Big Civil War Battles! (1861-1865) (forthcoming)
BBB was published over 10 years ago in 2014. The fact that 1000s of players have joined the BBB io group and Facebook page tells you it's popular. The fact that it hasn't needed a second edition tells you the rules are solid. The universally positive reviews of the game are collected on the BBB Blog:
https://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2016/10/collected-reviews-of-bbb-bloody-big.html

BBB ticks the boxes for all kinds of wargamers. If you love history – it's all about the history. If you want a challenge and a contest – BBB's tightly designed, well balanced scenarios will give you that. If you just want a fast and furious game – BBB's slick and quick mechanisms make the game rock on so that the situation changes every turn, and they inject just enough unpredictability and fog of war to make it surprising and entertaining while staying historically plausible.

Now we are making it easier for more of you to enjoy BBB:

• The rulebook and four scenario books are all now available in PDF.
• We have added two brilliant small 'training scenarios' to the rulebook.
• We have added new bonus scenarios to three of the scenario books.
• We expect to publish two more scenario books in 2026 (Peninsular War and Battles in Africa).
• Scenario books on the American Civil War are also nearly complete.
• Scenario books for other wars are also in preparation.
New BBB players will find they have joined an active, friendly and supportive community. Your fellow players in the BBB io group and on the BBB Facebook page will welcome and help you, as will the very responsive BBB team. The annual BBB 'Bash Day' conventions are great occasions if you can get to them. We hope you will enjoy BBB and we look forward to meeting you!

For more information:
https://skirmishcampaigns.com/bbb/

[Leon]

Excellent, hope that gets some more people into them!  Our PDF to physical copies is around 30/70 - 40/60 territory I think, so it's a good chunk of potential extra players/sales.

[Chris Pringle]

Thanks, Leon! 

[Nick the Lemming]

Which books have added scenarios, and are they available anywhere else for those of us who have the physical books? Also, awesome!

[kustenjaeger]

Excellent.

I was at a Lard day today (near Southampton) and two of us were trying to explain the benefits of BBB to the rest of the table.  Somewhat wierdly this conversation had no relevance to the game we were playing which was samurai skirmish!

Edward

[flamingpig0]

Excellent.

I was at a Lard day today (near Southampton) and two of us were trying to explain the benefits of BBB to the rest of the table.  Somewhat wierdly this conversation had no relevance to the game we were playing which was samurai skirmish!

Edward

Out of interest how did that go down? I mean the explanation not the Lard day as a whole

[Chris Pringle]

I'm interested in that explanation conversation too!

Nick, thanks for the question. Most of the scenarios are available in the io group.
BBB rulebook: Montebello (1859) and Langensalza (1866) (my two favourite 'training scenarios').
BBEB: Balaclava; Nachod, Trautenau. Skalitz, Soor (all APW); Katseljevo-Ablava (Russo-Turkish 1877-1878).

BBBI adds Bhudowal, not available elsewhere;
Napoleon's BBB adds Ligny, not available elsewhere.

Hungary 1848: haven't added any, I have good intentions but haven't written them yet.

[Nick the Lemming]

BBBI adds Bhudowal, not available elsewhere;

Any chance of getting this put up on the io too?