ECW project. For King and Parliament rules.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

You need to add Width= within the [img] tag. Can never remember the number but 500 and 800 come to mind.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

800

[DecemDave]

I know.  they don't call us toysoldierman even though we have hundreds of them.  But just one sheep and.......

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

800

Knew it were one of tut 2.

[sheepman 1]

Seems a bit better.
Thanks guys, Dave.

[paulr]

Still looks more ECW than TYW to me

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[mmcv]

Very nice

[Raider4]

Agreed, these are very nicely done.

(possibly) stupid question - shouldn't it be "For King or Parliament"?

[mmcv]

(possibly) stupid question - shouldn't it be "For King or Parliament"?

I believe it comes from the start of the war where a man was stopped by some royalists and asked if he was for king or parliament and he replied "I am for King AND Parliament" as the Parliamentary side still professed loyalty to the King, and insisted that it was simply the King was under the influence of unsavoury advisors who led him astray, thereby giving legitimately to their cause.

The Royalists killed the man as a traitor if memory serves.

[sheepman 1]

What do you guys recon to the slight mix of uniform colours, I would guess that complete uniformity would have been difficult to achieve even at the beginning of a campaign never mind when wear and tear set in. I decided to have a theme colour using the little info out there but I thought every man identical would be a little unrealistic. Just a guess of course but what do you think?
Dave.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Sounds right - colourfast dies are late 19th Century at the earliest. Certainly Newecastles Lambs would be varied shades as they wore undyed wool. New Noddle would be reasonably uniform in colour red is more stable than most.

[mmcv]

I'd say you're probably right on that. Certainly early on there wasn't a lot of uniformity unless the Colonel specifically bought coats for everyone. Most of the Royalists were clad in red or blue a bit later, but there were a mix of others too. Parliament would have been a bit more of a hodgepodge. There was also a lot of "brigading" where understrength regiments were mixed together so you'd see a mix of coats there.

I'm doing Naseby at the end of the war. New Model Army are all in red, but for the  Royalists I'm doing a mix of all one colour regiments (like Rupert's bluecoats) then a mix of mostly red and blue coats with a few other colours thrown in for good measure for some of the others where they're brigaded together.

[DecemDave]

I'm doing early war and I did an early unit in "civvies" i.e. browns, greys and the like intermingled but I didnt like it much when based - just looks a mess and so I went to "red" regiment, "yellow" regiment etc with a bit of shading for variety.  Multi-colour is probably more correct early war for the majority of units except maybe for the regular royalists and a few well equipped trained bands.  But there is only patchy knowledge on coat colours and the various re-fits and campaign wear mean you are unlikely to be completely wrong whatever you choose except for a few famous units.

[jimduncanuk]

800

1024 is a better number especially for bigger screens.

[sheepman 1]

I see a couple of regiments had purple coats, was purple an easy colour to obtain? I associate it with more wealthy individuals or had it become more accessible by the ECW period.
Dave.