Battle of Justice Mills 13th Spetember 1644 refought

[pierre the shy]

It's very late here and I'm sure Mrs Shy will bend my ear for staying up past my bed time but I did finish a write up of the test game we played on Saturday of Justice Mills, another of Montrose's battles from his very sucessful 1644/45 campaign in Scotland. For a change I have tried to write it in vaguely C17th speak, with comments on the actual game in italics below the pictures. Here is a link to the blog:

https://betweenthelines10mm.blogspot.com/2022/11/battle-of-justice-mills-september-13.html

Any comments/criticisms/compliments gladly accepted. I hope you find the C17th speak comprehensible!    

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Nice report there.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Cracking report

[Steve J]

Fine report there Pierre .

[paulr]

Despite a fearful charge by Lord Fraiser's pistol armed troop of horse which did much execution amongst the Irishes lead by one Colonel MacDonnell and would have seen them off (3 hits!!)

That was definitely an Oh Feck moment for the Irish, saving all three hits was a 'godsend' 

An interesting and challenging game. If the Covenanters had got more infantry across to their left it could have all gone pear shaped for the Irish who were starting to run low on ammunition

[mmcv]

Good game.

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, but what are you house ruling to give it the more celtic fringe feel?

[pierre the shy]

Good game.

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, but what are you house ruling to give it the more celtic fringe feel?

Morning mmcv

Have a look at DGuy's blog:https://in-red-coat-rags-attired.com/for-king-parliament-local-rules/

We are currently working on a few things that will hopefully see the light of day early next year to make  the Celtic fringe more accessable     

[mmcv]

Morning mmcv

Have a look at DGuy's blog:https://in-red-coat-rags-attired.com/for-king-parliament-local-rules/

We are currently working on a few things that will hopefully see the light of day early next year to make  the Celtic fringe more accessable     

Thanks. I knew dguy had done a lot around those conflicts, but hadn't seen that post on the rules. 


When I finally get my current batch of ECW done I'll probably move things northwards. Slow going as mostly all I have left are horse units, which I can only stomach painting a couple of at a go!

[pierre the shy]

We're hoping to get all Montroses stuff sorted out by the end of the year and then move on to various Irish battles up to 1649.

[d_Guy]

I liked the report Peter. You and I both seem to draw the worst chits at the worst time! In my play throughs Montrose lost once (catastrophically) and barely won once until he got a result similar to yours!

mmcv: the present download is still basically the original Celtic Fringe extension for FK&P although we are on the 6th revision at the moment. As Pierre said we hope to wrap Montrose (1644/45) in a couple months and then move on to Ireland. We have had to do more tweaks to deal with the 1641 insurgency and the early day of the Confederation.

I visit your blog occasionally. You have a large number irons in the fire!

[mmcv]

I liked the report Peter. You and I both seem to draw the worst chits at the worst time! In my play throughs Montrose lost once (catastrophically) and barely won once until he got a result similar to yours!

mmcv: the present download is still basically the original Celtic Fringe extension for FK&P although we are on the 6th revision at the moment. As Pierre said we hope to wrap Montrose (1644/45) in a couple months and then move on to Ireland. We have had to do more tweaks to deal with the 1641 insurgency and the early day of the Confederation.

I visit your blog occasionally. You have a large number irons in the fire!

I do, I am at times envious of the singular focus you all seem to have on particular projects. I tend to get very focused on a project for a while then once I've a good core of it done I look for a little variety and jump between other projects. I'm trying to be a little more controlled by having one project on the go for a particular era, but what constitutes an "era" can be suitably fuzzy...


I have determined I'm not starting any new ones until I get at least one or two "finished" to a reasonable degree. Very little time for painting at the moment though, so more time for thinking about projects... 

[d_Guy]

I've been working on this for five years which bespeaks a singular lack of focus  Peter actually completed other projects in the same time!

PaulR, among other things, is now editing which has brought much needed discipline!

Yes, thinking about other projects brings those "Look, Squirrel!" moments.

[mmcv]

Haha, yeah flitting between projects does take longer, but is more relaxing than just working on one thing, for me anyway. Though I find I usually get a bit of a burst when the end of an army or project is in sight as get a buzz from finishing them. I found I enjoyed painting more when I switched from trying to batch paint 100+ figures in one go to just focusing on painting up a unit (or couple of small units) at a time. Was much more satisfying having something finished after a couple of sittings rather than chipping away for weeks then finishing all at once. Much more motivating. That's partly why I jump projects a well, avoids the temptation to start taking on more and more similar units in one go.

[paulr]

... I found I enjoyed painting more when I switched from trying to batch paint 100+ figures in one go to just focusing on painting up a unit (or couple of small units) at a time. Was much more satisfying having something finished after a couple of sittings rather than chipping away for weeks then finishing all at once. Much more motivating...

Absolutely, I recently did a large batch of cavalry then moved back to doing smaller batches of foot. The quicker progress on the smaller batches was much more motivating

[mmcv]

Absolutely, I recently did a large batch of cavalry then moved back to doing smaller batches of foot. The quicker progress on the smaller batches was much more motivating

Cavalry is the mind killer.