Mustering the Troops .

The blame for this project must be laid squarely at the door of  'Vauban and Shandy' blog Vauban and Shandy - Flanders Garden Wargaming (shandyandvauban.blogspot.com) for getting my juices flowing for large scale ECW wargaming .

The figures are 54mm by 'A Call to Arms', here being cleaned up and glued temporarily to card for undercoating and painting . Pleasingly they are in suitable restrained postures (well with a couple of exceptions ) suitable for gaming .

I was lucky enough to get a deal from an 'on line' Model shop and got one of each of their boxes , they do a Command , Pikemen , Artillery crew , Field Gun , 2 boxes of Musketeers and 2 Cavalry  . I've also ordered some more odds and sods from Ebay to bolster my forces .

The next question was - which rules !? , I have decided on 'The Pikeman's Lament' it is designed for small actions/skirmishes which will be the main tabletop games portrayed in Borsetshire . It is based on the successful 'Lion Rampant' system which I have played a lot and like , they also have 10 scenarios which is very useful .

I also have a few Irregular 54mm which match very well with the plastics and I will probably use as personalities  - here we see Sir Brianne Aldridge talking to his game keeper Thomas Forreste . I hope to get a couple of small forces sorted out and try the rules out soon .