Black Powder Miniatures

What is Black Powder?

Black Powder is Warlord Games' rules for mass battles of the musket era: the Marlburian wars, the American Revolution, Napoleon, the American Civil War and the colonial wars, fought in 28mm with units of ten, twenty or more models rather than a skirmish handful. It's the ancestor of the same publisher's Hail Caesar (further back, the ancient and medieval world) and Pike & Shotte (the century between the two) — three rulesets covering one long run of history with a shared big-battle feel, a different game from Warlord's own Bolt Action, which handles the Second World War at platoon scale with order dice instead.

Because the rules ask for nobody's figures in particular, this page is filed by war rather than by maker: a Perry French line infantry box, a Victrix British one and a Warlord Epic Battles brigade all sit under the Napoleonic Wars, so the buyer planning an army sees every option for it at once.

Starting an army

A Black Powder army usually starts from a boxed infantry regiment or two, built out with cavalry, artillery and command figures as the list needs them. Where a war has an Epic Battles range, a single starter box puts a whole smaller-scale wing of the army on the table in one purchase, which is the faster and cheaper route into a big-battalion game like this one.

What we list, and from where

Every kit here is one a shop we compare actually sells, and the price on each card is what that shop was charging when we last checked it — never a manufacturer's list price shown as if you could still pay it.

Some wars have no priced kits yet and show as grey names in the strip above. That is a gap in what our partners stock, not in the period.

Where next

Every Warlord Games system · Hail Caesar, the ancient and medieval rules · Other historical periods · Match a uniform colour to a real paint