No more planning for set-piece battles between herds of dinosaurs.

France would love a game that descends into a set-piece battle.

The beginning (before opposing pieces come into contact) is usually a set-piece battle, with players setting up their favoured openings.

It is not our role to fight set-piece battles.

The French, in this hard-fought set-piece battle, lost 7,389: 944 killed, 6,294 wounded, 156 prisoners.

This was a "set-piece battle," the kind he'd read of in old man-books.

But set-piece battles seldom come off, as they were about to discover.

For this scenario, the game uses two mapboards as the scene of a large set-piece battle.

There were only five major set-piece battles during twenty-eight years of hostilities.

Neither side could afford heavy casualties or sustained campaigns, so conflicts seem to have been resolved by a single set-piece battle.