Infantry Attacks: A Contemptible Little Army

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On 23 August 1914, the British Expeditionary Force, dispatched to France to fight alongside the French Army, ran head-on into the German First Army near Mons, France. The BEF, composed of long-service volunteer professionals highly trained in marksmanship and rapid fire, slowly gave ground to superior German numbers in Britain’s first battle of the Great War. Kaiser Wilhelm II had dismissed them as “a contemptible little army,” words he would come to regret.

A Contemptible Little Army is a stand-alone game in the Infantry Attacks series, our World War One equivalent to the long-running Panzer Grenadier series. Units are companies and squadrons, and the thirty-six scenarios represent actions from the pivotal Battle of Mons and its aftermath, that heralded the opening of the bloody four-year struggle on the Western Front.

The 429 pieces are the die-cut, silky-smooth type seen in all of our recent games. They're just plain fun to handle. These are the best wargame counters ever made.

There are four semi-rigid mapboards, the same type found in Panzer Grenadier games. They are fully compatible with the Panzer Grenadier boards — you can play scenarios from either series on mapboards from the other game system.