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Wider Wargaming => Genre/Period Discussion => Ancients to Renaissance (3000BC - 1680) => Topic started by: streetgang on 06 March 2025, 01:53:16 AM

Title: 9 Years War Ireland
Post by: streetgang on 06 March 2025, 01:53:16 AM
Picked up the recent Helion release on the Nine Years War. Pendraken has a good amount of what one would need. The question is what rules? I'm thinking Tercios for bigger battles, perhaps one of Daniel Mersey's Lion Rampant variants for smaller battles.

Is there anything else that anyone can think of?

Any proxies for Irish horse or command?
Title: Re: 9 Years War Ireland
Post by: pierre the shy on 06 March 2025, 03:16:49 AM
I used ELM 20 Irish horse (from the late european medieval range) to depict "traditional" native Irish horse in my War of the 3 Kingdoms Irish armies, so they should be fine for the 9YW period.

For command what about EL 22 from the Elizabethian range - they look pretty generic?

We use For King and Parliament for all our W3K games, but not played 9YW. If you like grids its right at the end of the period covered by To the Strongest! rules...

Title: Re: 9 Years War Ireland
Post by: d_Guy on 06 March 2025, 04:10:05 PM
Impetus:Baroque might do the trick.
Title: Re: 9 Years War Ireland
Post by: Scorpio_Rocks on 06 March 2025, 04:34:09 PM
We tend to use Warlord's Pike and Shotte - they work are fairly simple and fast to play. You may have seen our large participation game at Hammerhead using Pendraken figures.
Title: Re: 9 Years War Ireland
Post by: fred. on 06 March 2025, 07:45:28 PM
I'd suggest Irregular Wars rules wise. 

The Pendraken Irish figures are good, I've got a fairly large army of them painted up
Title: Re: 9 Years War Ireland
Post by: streetgang on 07 March 2025, 09:58:20 PM
Thanks gents, much appreciated! I'm a big fan of Irregular aware (I actually think I have these armies in 15mm unpainted for IW).I think the plan, thus far in my head, is to base them on 30mm or 40mm squares and a few pike and shot units on 30x60mm or 40x80mm. That will allow me to use Irregular Wars smaller battles and Tercios for larger battles.