ECW project - For King and Parliament

[Techno]

Nah....The (HAH !) Lab 'puppy' knows the difference between me and the 'bar stewards' I shoot, when I have to.

Cheers -The sniper.

[paulr]

The Marsden Moor road trip went really well, even with 60+ units on the table we had around 10 players all up so we were comfortably able to complete 2 games in a day. The results were historical with 2 Parliamentary wins in the end, though the Royalists did not make it easy in either game.     

It was indeed a very enjoyable day out, thanks for the lift Pierre

[paulr]

Managed to make a start on the three Covenanter foot regiments

The limited armour and helmets base coated & highlighted

[pierre the shy]

A few ECW related pictures:

Royalist "standing regiments" - since they were raised in 1639 and had an initial outfit of armour for the pikes I have included three EC 16 figures per pike block to represent armoured men.

In order to differentiate the Royalists I did not use the traditional Scots saltire flag since the Covenanters used it so extensively amongst their regiments. The "Lion Rampant" flag is reserved for the personal use of the King or his designated leutenant (in this case Montrose) so it will only appear on Montrose's command stand when made. Instead following the green harp colours I used for the Irish Brigade I chose to show the "Scottishness" of these guys by using the arms of Scotland on a blue background as used by the Kings Footguards in 1650. The colonels colours are all adopted from those made available on the fabulous Project Auldearn 1645 blogsite at http://auldearn1645.blogspot.com/      

The Strathbogie Regiment:


Three regiments together:


from behind:



Marsden Moor 25mm Game:

In the first game I controlled the Parliamentary left wing cavalry - 2 brigades of raw Dutch style horse and Leven's Scots cavalry brigade.  



Next door to me Paul had Leslie's Scots foot:



After lunch we swapped sides and I ran some of the Royalist foot. Unfortunately Cromwell's cavalry overwhelmed the Royalist right wing cavalry in fairly short order so Rupert lead out his bodyguard of supercharged Swedish style cavalry to save the day (middle centre just behind the ditch)



Unfortunately the raw Scots lancers that they fought first hadn't read the script and drew two 10's, while Rupert's veteran supertroopers drew no hits, even after Rupert's replay and so were destroyed....opps    Rupert himself was a little more fortunate and survived to join a nearby friendly foot unit.

The banter around the table during this game was fantastic and it really was worth the trip.

Lastly one picture for DGuy showing my thinking of how to depict highlanders - 5 irregularly placed figures in front (trying to show as a "highland charge") with 3 other figures in the rear. All the figures are from Pendraken's Jacobite range except the highland archers which come from the Early C16 range.



I hope you can see the pictures alright through your "sniper" ghille suit Techno 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very nice

[d_Guy]

Wow!
Much as happened on this thread since my last visit. The Kiwi's are definitely all in! Thanks for posting the pics (yours and the game as well) and like the decision to make the Royalist standing regiments useable for Dunbar by switching out the command strip. Good looking units to boot.

The highlanders will also look good in that configuration, anxious to see them painted up. The sabot system that we all use will allow for multiple configurations.

[Techno]

Looking good !

Cheers - Phil

[paulr]

Those standing regiments have based up well

The game was definitely enjoyable, sorry the Royalist right flank didn't last longer but Byron being forced to charge Cromwell's better Horse didn't help

Looking forward to painting the Highlanders

Base coated the jackets & trousers of the 3 units of Covenanters ... grey

[paulr]

Dry brushed the jackets & trousers of the 3 units of Covenanters ... light grey

Base coated the bonnets of the 3 units of Covenanters ... blue

Dry brushed the bonnets of the 3 units of Covenanters ... light blue

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Easy street...

[d_Guy]

Hope you know that I constantly use your diary as a tutorial.   

[paulr]

 

[pierre the shy]

Easy street...

We havent discussed the 4 stripe tartans for the highlanders yet ☺

[paulr]

 

Officer's jacket and trousers base coated, a variety of not greys

Started dry brushing the officer's jacket and trousers, a variety of not greys

[paulr]

Finished dry brushing the officer's jacket and trousers, a variety of not greys

Base coated caps, hats and boots

Dry brushed caps, hats and boots

[pierre the shy]

Real life got in the way for Paul and myself this week I'm afraid Techno so no new pics this week, should be back on track next week with some Covenant regiments to show off.....very slack 

   

[paulr]

Despite real life I managed to get the scabbards and belts done

Should get more done today, pikes done already

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

You okay?

[paulr]

Yes, very busy at work, apologies if it sounded overly dramatic...

Bags & apostles done
Musket stocks and barrels done
Pike tips and swords done

[pierre the shy]

Next lot of covenant m & p units fully "prepped and piked" for delivery on Saturday.

Flags, bases and labels done for current batch.

Spent an hour on Google maps last night trying to make sense of the Battle of Alford.....there are many accounts but not two seem to agree entirely on where and what happened when. I found traces what I was looking for (boggy ground) so I think I know what approach I will take terrain wise for this game which will be the first with some of the new units once a few more are complete. The Roy Maps from the 1750's are very useful too.....thanks to the good folks at the National Library of Scotland for digitising them so that I can see them 12000km away.