A strong defensive position is squandered by the hapless rebel leadership, effectively ending the Bohemian Revolt. Incredibly, the war it ignited would continue on, engulfing most of Europe for three decades. A simple battle to get your feet wet.

A letter from King Charles convinced Prince Rupert of the Rhine that he ought to fight a much larger army. Parliament won a lopsided victory. Only the stubborn stand of the Whitecoats prevented total disaster. This has more moving parts than the White Mountain scenario.

The battle that won Canada for the British. This battle introduces Counter-attack Reactions.

The battle that ended the Wars of the Roses, and saw the ascendancy of the Tudors. This small and curious scenario gives you a peek at the Absorb reaction and introduces Command actions, turning on the timely arrival of fresh troops.

The Grand Alliance broke the French line – but paid for it with heavy losses. French commander Villars wrote to the king after the battle: "If it pleases God to give your majesty's enemies another such victory, they are ruined."

Henri IV defeated his Catholic opposition, thanks in part to enemy mercenaries who were sympathetic to his cause. It wasn't enough to win over Paris; his rule would not be accepted until he converted. This is a tricky scenario – a dance of screens.

Complicated politics saw French and English troops on both sides of this battlefield, widely admired as Turenne's masterpiece. You will need to master all three Reaction types to triumph here.

A diversionary attack by Grant disguised Clinton's advance on the Patriot flank. Outgunned, outmanned, outnumbered and outplanned, they've gotta make an all-out stand – at least until the main body of the army can escape. For experienced players.

From C3i #32

From C3i #32

If Polyaenus is to be believed (a big if!), Philip isolated the Greek left with a faked retreat, while the teenaged Alexander destroyed the famous Sacred Band of Thebes and smashed the Greek right.

Persia's light cavalry is no match for our boy's infantry and Companions, and it doesn't help the Persian cause that no one is really in charge. About the only thing they have going for them is they're on the other side of a river. Will it be enough?

Darius had a numerical advantage – how much exactly is impossible to say – but most of his troops were ineffectual light infantry that weren't actually engaged. Both sides concentrated their strength on their right, and it was a race to see which side's left would collapse first.

Numbering somewhere between 100,000 and one million (!), Darius's army vastly outnumbered Alexander's. But he was still trying to fight the Macedonians with Persian methods, and after some hard fighting, Alexander broke the Persian left.

Crossing the river with a small part of his army, Alexander was initially outnumbered, and the enemy's fearsome elephants threatened to break the phalanx. But daring and complicated maneuvers threw the Indian army into disarray, securing victory for Alexander in his last major battle.

One of the many battles fought by Alexander's successors (the Diadochi), this one proved tactically inconclusive. But the capture of Eumenes's baggage was enough for his Silver Shields to turn him over to Antigonus for execution.

Like Gabiene and many other battles from the Wars of the Diadochi, this battle saw two armies that were mostly identical in structure and tactics. And like many ancient battles, the death of a single man, the enemy commander (in this case Antigonus), was sufficient to secure victory.

One of the most famous actions of the day saw fewer than three thousand men mount a desperate, hard-fought, and ingenious defense of the Union left flank against he repeated assaults of nearly five thousand butternuts.

The decisive battle of Caesar's Civil War saw him square off against his old ally Pompey the Great. Knowing he would lose a straightforward clash of arms, Caesar gambled everything on a bold stratagem.

In a dense fog, a massive – but badly coordinated – Russian army launched a surprise attack. As the fog lifted and fresh Allied troops poured in, their desperate, doomed defense improbably turned into a lopsided victory.