The Greate Civile Warre Campaign - The Battle on the Black Moore .

 

So 'S' came round for our first ECW game . I deployed first , my force was 2 Trained Foote , 2 Raw Horse and one Veteran Horse . Simon drew cards that gave him 2 Trained Foote, 1 Raw Foote, 1 Veteran Foote (The King's Lifeguard ?) , but all his 3 units of Horse were Raw !.

My deployment , I was feeling somewhat intimidated being out numbered by his Foote.

'S's line up, he was bothered by the fact that his Horse was poor .

He advanced boldly and both sides started a firefight , I advanced my Horse on my left to counter his.

'S' put King Charles at the head of one of his Squadrons of Horse and charged mine - broke it and caused another unit of Horse to rout and he pursued both off the table ! 

My Lord Fairfax charge a unit of Royalist Horse and beat it but my Foote now unsupported on their left and out flanked were rolled up and fled ! . Fairfax left the field with his Regiment of Horse just as the King returned from the pursuit to find his enemies had fled ! , a glorious victory for the Royalist cause and he could continue his march . Fairfax retired to try and gather his scattered Army and fight again. A rather quick game but the rules worked well and we are both looking forwars to the next one .

Ye Greate Civile Warre Campaign.

The King raises his Standard at the towne of Scarbourgh and amasses his forces before marching across the country to reach and lift the Siege of Chester. This will be a series of games played between myself and my wargaming comrade 'S', we will be using Wofun 28mm figures and  a set of rules by Andy Callan (free rules from Wofun)

King Charles the First and his escort  (played by 'S'). The Royalists find their line of march blocked by the enemy and they are forced to deploy.

My own alto ego , having intercepted the King's army I am going to deploy my forces to block his progress.

The table laid out ready for the game. The blue dice delineate the deployment area for the Royalists and the red for the forces of Parliament. A fairly neutral set up a few hills on either flank and some marshy ground near the sheep pens on the Parliament right ..The forces will be chosen with the drawing of cards to find the troop types which adds a degree of uncertainty to the Generals . Hopefully the game will be played out on 'S's next visit .

 

 

2D basing for the ECW .

Been finishing off my my basing of the Wofun ECW figures, I use terracotta coloured Milliput to fill the gaps in the bases .

I'd like to branch out into Montrose's Highland campaign in the future and I got a few Scottish figures . Here we have Alasdair Mac Colla , Montrose's second in command with his piper and bodyguard.

And here is James Graham 1st Marquess of Montrose withe the Royal Standard. The edges of these figures need inking in with GW ink to cut down the white glare on the edges and some bits of flock etc onto the bases to finish them off.

 

Another year, another project.

I have recently sold off one of my lesser used collections of figures and having cash burning a hole in my pocket I caste my eyes around for something to spend it on. I've had this book for quite a while and it includes a very playable set of rules in it.  I've never amassed any ECW armies in 28mm having been put off by the thought of painting up two armies - enter the 2D Wofun plexiglass figures !.

I ordered their starter set in 28mm - here is a Royalist Regiment of Foote, 48 figures on 6 bases. I have filled the gaps in the bases with brown 'milliput' and painted the edges of the figures with brown ink to cut down the shine.

King Charles I , the chap that caused all the trouble.

A Troope of Horse .

A gunne and crew. The gun is mdf and a bit fiddly to put together .

The down side of 2D figures , but the plus side is that I had them unboxed based up and on the tabletop the following day .- instant wargaming ! . 

A rather nice command group, I've added tufts of foliage to the various bases . I realise that these flat figures are not every bodies cup of tea, but the idea of getting figures onto the tabletop and start playing games is a great selling point for me.