ECW army painting close to finish

The last week, and weekend, was very productive on the painting front with four English Civil War units completed. This leaves only two units remaining to paint, one of which is on the painting table halfway through the painting process.

Three of the units painted which got plonked into the middle of a W40K game for photographing

I need to complete all the figures before I can start the planned ECW campaign. Well, that is the goal I have set so there are no unpainted stragglers left behind. Once complete I will have:

Parliamentarians

• 6 x cavalry (trotter) units
• 6 x infantry (mixed musket and pike) units
• 2 x artillery units
• 1 x cavalry (lobster) unit
• 1 x commanded shot unit
• 2 x dragoon units
• 1 x command stand

Royalists

• 6 x cavalry (trotter) units
• 6 x infantry (mixed musket and pike) units
• 2 x artillery units
• 1 x infantry ("Cornish" pike) unit
• 1 x commanded shot unit
• 2 x dragoon units
• 1 x command stand

I may choose to add one or two more units overtime, but these forces provide the basis for a variety of armies, be they cavalry based or infantry based. It would be a rare game where they would all be deployed on my 6x4 foot tabletop, it gets too crowed for my liking with more than 12 units.

Meanwhile on the gaming front I have been messing around with some rule ideas for my W40K armies. Here are some photos of a game. The odd looking "alien" dead trees are dried seaweed I collected while on a beach walk a number of years ago.