Donde No se Ponía el Sol

Alea Magazine #30.

Donde No se Ponía el Sol (English: "Where the Sun Never Set") is a wargame which comprises four battles from the era of the Spanish tercios:

Nieuport 1600 With the strategic aim of capturing Dunkirk, Spain's major port in northern Europe, Maurice leads Anglo-Dutch forces from Ostend and engages the tercios in the "Battle of the Dunes".

Otumba 1520 After Moctezuma is deposed, Cortes abandons Tenochtitlán and is pursed by Aztec forces to the plain of Otumba.

San Quentín 1557 French forces advance into Picardy to raise the Spanish siege, but are ambushed crossing the River Somme before they can enter the town.

Tunis 1535 Charles V assembles an expeditionary force to recover Tunis from the Ottoman corsair Barbarossa and restore their client Sultan Hassan.

English rules available from Ludopress

Further scenarios published in subsequent editions of Alea : Salses, 1639, and Alcazarquivir, 1578 (#31); Ostia, 1497 (#32); Nördlingen, 1634 (#33); Pavia, 1525 (#35)