WTK Scots and plus an Irish

[SV52]

Expanding existing armies.  Ran out of steam with two cavalry regiments still to go, same old mistake; trying to do too many at once. So in the meantime while I shamble off to do something different:

For the Covenant:




For Montrose and the King:


No pretence to historical accuracy, my own artistic license 

[Roy]

They look blooming well good   

[d_Guy]

I like them SV52 as they serve the purpose of getting enough units together to actually play a game. The sometime forgotten advantage of 10mm is to base them like 28mm ( figures to base) and gain a near tripling of ground scale - bigger battles in smaller spaces.

As to historical accuracy, there is a good deal of dogma surrounding how this time and place should be done. I think there is still a great deal of room for interpretation and yours convey a decent "look and feel" which to me at least is the point. So, 

Hope you'll' get back to the horse. 

You may have mentioned before but do you have a specific rules set in mind?

[sunjester]

Looking very nice!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very cool!

[SV52]

Many thanks for the replies comrades.

de Guy: A man after my own heart.  I try to limit the numbers on figures, these are on 40mmx20mm and 40mmx30mm bases.  Once the horse are done the army will have 7 foot, 4 horse, 1 dragoon base and three guns (plenty to move around and keep track of for a solo gamer).  The Montrose crowd are roughly similar but sparser numbers.  Rules not yet defined but 'One Hour Wargames' pike and shot on hex terrain the most likely

The boys at Pendraken towers were good enough to let me have a non-standard order for these fellas 

[d_Guy]

 

I play solo also.

FWIW - I did a variant on One Hour Games for Musket and Pike (Which includes a couple of great ideas from Norm Smith) with Montrose's campaign specifically in mind. A PDF of the current version can be found on my blog here:

https://inredcoatragsattired.com/homebrew-rules-empty/one-hour-wargames/


It's worth mentioning to all again that the 30 generic scenarios provided in Neil Thomas's book are more than worth the purchase price alone.

[paulr]

 

Looking good SV52

[SV52]

I play solo also.

FWIW - I did a variant on One Hour Games for Musket and Pike (Which includes a couple of great ideas from Norm Smith) with Montrose's campaign specifically in mind. A PDF of the current version can be found on my blog here:

https://inredcoatragsattired.com/homebrew-rules-empty/one-hour-wargames/

It's worth mentioning to all again that the 30 generic scenarios provided in Neil Thomas's book are more than worth the purchase price alone.

That makes interesting reading, more or less where I was going too.  Unsure about including artillery though; as Mr Thomas says, it was so ineffective as to not be worth bothering with. Especially true in the Scottish case as the ordnance was of light calibre and poor quality (frame guns for example).  It does look good on the table though...

I'll get the horse done and, together some simple scenery and have a game.

[SV52]

Looking good SV52

Thanks Paul 

[Womble67]

Very nice indeed

Take care

Andy

[FierceKitty]

What is WTK? Much as I favour "War of the Kilts", I fear I'm wrong there.

[d_Guy]

 It does look good on the table though...

Yup! 

For game purposes I think of the guns that I substituted in as the heavier field guns, Sakers and that sort. I added them to mostly function as an impediment  to the side that gets them! If you are doing a scenario where you have to get some or all your force across the board and you draw one or two of the beasts things get very problematic (If you decide to fire them they can no longer move!). Very unhandy. 

Incidentally, I rationalized their absence in the original rules by figuring that the light field guns (like the frame guns you mentioned) are simply folded into the offense fire of the foot.

What is WTK? Much as I favour "War of the Kilts", I fear I'm wrong there.

I want to know also, but would embrace War of the Kilts as well.

[Fenton]

Are we talking about the Bishops War?

[paulr]

WTK Wars of the Three Kingdoms; England, Scotland, Ireland 1639 - 1651 I believe

[Techno]

 

Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

Used to be known as the English Civil War(s).

Probably inaccurately.

[SV52]

What is WTK? Much as I favour "War of the Kilts", I fear I'm wrong there.

The War of the Three Kingdoms (WTK or W3K), a much more accurate description of the 17th century unpleasantness than ECW.

[SV52]

Are we talking about the Bishops War?

No the BIshops Wars were 1638 1639, when Charlie boy tried to force the book of common prayer onto the Scots Kirk, bad mistake.  He went  to war with Scotland to force the issue and was badly beaten.  He then went to the English parliament to get money to fight the Scots again, that cost him his head in the long run.

[FierceKitty]

The War of the Three Kingdoms (WTK or W3K), a much more accurate description of the 17th century unpleasantness than ECW.

Makes sense. But it sounds like something from 8th century China, doesn't it?