"The Lord God is my Armour!" - Gustavus Adolphus, refusing the steel body armour offered by his aides, 16th September 1632.

Since the beginning of the Italian Wars in 1494, Europe has been turned into an endless killing ground. Armies are raised one after another, sooner or later involving all the powers and kingdoms of the Old Continent in the conflicts. This is a time of cruelty and great military innovations. This is the era of the birth of Modern States and the definitive death of the Middle Ages.
This is the Iron Century!

Pike and Shot: Campaigns is released! The latest and comprehensive title in the Pike and Shot franchise is finally out!

Challenge yourself with 4 historical campaigns, including the eruption of Gustavus Adolphus’s innovative army into the Thirty Years War, the rise of the famous Roundheads during the English Civil War, and the great 1683 siege of Vienna by the Ottoman Empire, or choose your troops from 21 new skirmish army lists and lead them into furious battles across the Europe!
Your destiny awaits!

Grab the game here!

If you wish to learn more about the game, be sure to join us live on Twitch[www.twitch.tv] tonight for a gameplay session of Pike & Shot: Campaigns!

IMPORTANT!
Pike and Shot: Campaigns is a stand-alone release and includes all the content from the Pike and Shot base game and the Tercio to Salvo expansion. Any community scenarios you had installed for the previous Pike & Shot releases will have to be redownloaded for Pike & Shot Campaigns.

Owners of Pike and Shot get a 75% discount when upgrading to Pike and Shot : Campaigns. If you have a version from our site or an affiliated store you’ll have a serial. Your Pike and Shot serial will act as a discount code to give you 75% when applied to your shopping cart on the Slitherine or Matrix sites.

If you bought from Steam, all you need to do is go to the Steam page and your discount will be pre-applied. Please note the Steam discount is only valid until the 27th October so make sure you upgrade before then!

In addition, be aware that Pike & Shot: Campaigns is not multiplayer compatible with the previous Pike & Shot games. So if you have any PBEM++ games running from the previous Pike & Shot releases, then be sure not to uninstall your old game until these have been completed.

An incredible amount of work has been undertaken by the Pike and Shot community!

Dozens of new maps for both single player and multiplayer have been created and added to the game and now you can enjoy a wider experience of the religious struggles that raged all across the Old Continent during the 16th and 17th century.

The new maps cover some of the historical battles fought in the Thirty Years War, the English Civil War, the conflict between Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, and many others.

To download the maps just select “Historical” from the main menu and then “Download Community Scenario”. Once the download is complete, when you go back to “Historical” you will find the downloaded SP scenario(s) in the list (MP scenarios won't appear in the Historical list, but will appear in the MP lobby when you select New Challenge).

Are you ready to wear your armour and to march in the ranks once again upon the bloody battlefields of Europe?

See the list of scenarios here.[www.slitherine.com]

Get more information about the game here.

i]“Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry”[/i] (Oliver Cromwell)

Tercio to Salvo – the first expansion of Pike And Shot – has been recently released and to show you better the main features of this huge title we will stream it today on our official Twitch Stream Channel[www.twitch.tv] at 20:00 CEST/14:00 EDT for more than an hour!

Grab your musket!

Get more information about the game from its official product page

"Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.” (Elizabeth I – Queen of England and Ireland)

Tercio to Salvo – the first expansion of the acclaimed wargame set in the iron century, is finally released!

Following in the footsteps of the base game Tercio to Salvo introduces brand new conflicts and nations for a refreshing wargaming experience!

The expansion includes 10 historical scenarios that depict iconic European battles from the 16th and early 17th centuries and 49 new army lists for the skirmish mode, allowing the fans to generate an infinite numbers of what-if scenarios with diversified settings and troop types.

Get more information on Pike & Shot – Tercio to Salvo from its official page

Pike and Shot is updated to Version 1.0.4!

Important improvements will make the gameplay more enjoyable than ever, with more accurate stats for specific units and more choices in skirmish generated maps like the type of terrain.

The list is very long so be sure to check the full changelog here[slitherine.com]

Get more information about the game from its official product page

Join us today at 20:00 CET (19:00 UTC / 14:00 EST) as we start off the first of a Let's Play series for Pike & Shot! Pike & Shot was the surprise hit of 2014, bringing together engaging and clever gameplay with a setting that is overlooked all too often. This is a turn-based gem you cannot miss!

During the series we will be playing all the scenarios in order, giving you the chance to witness the full scope of content in the game, as well as the option to share strategies and tactics for specific problems. In addition, the series will give Surtur the chance to hone (actually, to built up) his skills as a field commander.

The Stream will be live here[www.twitch.tv] at 20:00 CET (19:00 UTC / 14:00 EST)

Hi everyone,

Version 1.03 of Pike & Shot is now available. The game should update automatically the next time you launch Steam. The patch contains a number of fixes, as well as some rule changes.

Enjoy!

Version 1.0.3
1. Evaders and routers are now prevented from deviating by more than 90 degree from their initial or current direction of flight in each step of their flee move. Units evading will make an initial turn directly away from the charger. Units routed from close combat will make an initial turn directly away from the unit that broke them (or approximately split the angle if fighting multiple units).
Routers who cannot make any rout move at all because of the above are dispersed. Evaders will be caught in the back.
2. Keils no longer ignore the ZOC of enemy directly to their front.
3. Total maximum alternative unit texture folders permitted (including those in the Core set plus those in a particular campaign) increased to 32. (Was 16).
4. Game speed can now optionally be reduced to anything between 30% and 100%.
5. Corrected bug that prevented Side 1 intro popup from appearing in MP games.
6. Corrected bug that allowed pursuers to get free move to catch up with target of pursuit charge if it evades.
7. Corrected bug causing long-distance break-offs in extremely rare circumstances.
8. Corrected bug in tile Overlay sets which treated river-stream T-junctions and stream-stream T-junctions as interchangeable.
9. Corrected music bugs - prevented same track from restarting when switching menu, and made battle music play correctly on loading saved game or MP turn.
10. Random map scripts moved to /Data/Battle/Scripts to allow modded versions in custom campaigns to overwrite them. (Versions in /Tools/Slith_RandomMap/UI are now just shells and dummies to avoid issues with installation.)
11. Language localisation added for Troop Types in Editor, and alternative Skirmish campaigns.

Pike and Shot has been a surprise hit this year. Richard Bodley Scott delivered a little gem of game that managed to get the Thirty Years War back in the front pages of gaming publications and on the computer desktops of wargamers worldwide.

Now it's time for a first major update with a load of upgrades, changes and fixes, many of which are direct requests of the many players out there. The list is long and it goes from closer zoom-in function to units stats as well as some very specific gameplay changes to make the game both more playable and true to historical facts.

You can get a full list of changes from here or directly update you game by downloading the patch, but make sure you run it before you go back to the 16th century!

Changelog Version 1.0.2
1. Zoom In allowed to go closer.
2. You can now set up multiplayer skirmish games using custom force point distributions. (Useful for resolving battles for external campaigns). Note that these games must be private, that is password protected, to prevent the unwary being caught out in open games.
3. Prevented diagonal flank/rear charges across front of enemy unit.
4. Artillery are now much easier to destroy by close combat in open terrain because:
1. “Unprotected” artillery now have -200 POA instead of -100 POA in impact and melee combat.
2. Artillery drop cohesion on contact if charged in flank/rear by light troops.
5. Light troops attacking non-light enemy in flank or rear can now never have a lower net POA than they would have had if they charged those enemy frontally.
6. Light foot (including commanded shot) made less likely to evade from equivalent light foot, and light horse less likely to evade from equivalent light horse.
7. Overstrength Later Tercios no longer count as keils. (Note that they previously only counted as keils when they were at full starting strength of 1000 or more, so some already started below that strength and the others only qualified as keils until they had been shot at once or twice. The design has always intended that Later Tercios should not count as keils. Early Tercios, on the other hand, do.).
8. Corrected button tooltips in New Campaign creation dialogue box. Also in Plugin dialogue in Editor
9. Any remaining AP (at least 4) highlighted in yellow for greyed out units in Unit List.
10. Increase difficulty dialogue no longer appears in End Battle screen in Tutorial scenarios.
11. Edgehill and Nantwich scenario intro maps corrected.
12. Corrected some errors in the French translation.
13. Added missing button texture to End Campaign screens.
14. Corrected rare crash bug (which reported attempt to place unit on occupied tile).
15. Corrected a rarely occurring bug causing failure to fully cancel close combat between non-adjacent units.
16. Force selection screen icons for non-light horse archers and mounted crossbowmen corrected.
17. Added Rough Ground overlay to all three tile overlay sets.
18. Bridge objects automatically count as Roads. Ford overlay tiles automatically count as Tracks.
19. Corrected rare bug where unit pursuing evaders switched target but still also charged the evaders in the rear.
20. Further update to French text.
21. Removed light guns from French musketeers units. (They weren’t supposed to have them and they had not been included in the unit cost).
22. Nicer texture used for Saxon kurassiers in 1st Breitenfeld.