Saturday 4 August 2018

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:


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


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.




6 comments:

  1. Peter- Well done on the ECW Hinchliffe and Minifigs collection- I know you've been working on this Project for some time and pleased you have near completed all the Armies- well done indeed. Cheers. KEV.

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    1. Thanks KEV. I am hoping to complete all the units over the next two months. I am averaging just over one unit a week.

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  2. Hi Peter,

    I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with! Your D3 WW2 rules are great.

    Cheers

    Jay

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    1. Hi Jay, Glad you liked the WW2 rules. It will be interesting to see in what direction these ECW rules go in.

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  3. A nice period to do. Warlord Games brought out an ECW centred module for their Pike and Shotte rules, called ‘To Kill A King’ and it is one of heir better supplements and makes a very good one source read for the wargamer, including several scenarios.

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    1. Thanks for the tip on the rules supplement. I am enjoying the painting with all the colourful standards, which look good on the tabletop.

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