There is a really nice series of video's on how to play the Twilight of the Sun King (1680-1720) being made. They also give a good overview of the game. The other rules in the system use similar rules mechanisms and principles and so it will also help with the other sets - Twilight of Divine Right (1620-1670) and Twilight of the Soldier Kings (1730 -1770)


You can see the first episode here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Y7obBFqSQ

There seems to be a decade missing in these rules, and I've wondered why this would seem to be so. Or is 1670-1680 covered in one of the sets? It's not that nothing happened in this period, I would say:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Dutch_War

The dates are just approximate to give a general idea of what they cover. The Divine Right set covers up to the end of the wars of the 1670's - the Franco Dutch war, the Scanian War and the Russian Ottoman war, the last of these finishes in 1681. Probably the first Sun King war is the Great Turkish War of 1683. But it might be that some other wars might be better fought with a set covering another era - i.e. if say an old-fashioned army if fighting in 1700 in a way more appropriate to the earlier era.

Hopefully, a scenario book with Franco Dutch war scenarios will be published later this year or early next year. The society magazine already has one for Seneffe 1674.

The second and third parts of the video on the mechanisms of the Twilight of the Sun King rules have been put online. The other rules in the series share similar mechanisms although the details vary.

Part 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYlgV6pvH_g

Part 3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DxEh71aB1c

Bummer! I thought this was going to be a guide to getting the vampire films into the correct chronological order.