English Civil War game

During the week I was able to complete two artillery units for my English Civil War armies. While I still have a few more units yet to paint (4 infantry, 4 cavalry, 2 commanders and 2 artillery) I now have sufficient numbers for a trial game with a variation of One Hour Wargame Pike and Shot rules.

Troops and raid out on a hastily set up tabletop.

There are already some good variants out there from which I can draw inspiration:

• One Hour Wargames - English Civil War - A heavily modified OHW variant from Kaptain Kobold on The Stronghold Rebuilt.
• Hats, Horses and Hexes (Wargame Rules) - Takes the above variant and reworks them for a grid-based game. By Old Trousers of Numbers, Wargames and Arising About.

In my searching for some simple rules, I came across a site with quite a bit on ECW games using DBA style games.

• Solitary Wargames alone with rules there were some simple campaign ideas.

The above sources will prove very useful as I pull together some simple rules for myself. At the moment my intention is for the rules to use D3 dice for combat and use a square grid to regulate movement and shooting distances. The rules will be written up in a small booklet as I have done recently for my Napoleonic and WW2 rules. This constraint will help me keep the rules simple and straightforward.

Royalist position. Most figures are Hinchliffe with an odd Minifig thrown in.

Parliament forces positioned on a hill.

As I have mentioned in previous posts. These Hinchliffe figures were collected when I was in my early teens back in the early 1970's and never successfully painted up. They were boxed up in 1975 and only this year have I opened up the boxes and finally got around to painting them. So it is with great joy I get to push them around a tabletop this weekend.