We are in the happy position that between the three of us we now have more than enough 15mm English Civil War units to do some decent sized games (with plenty more units to come). Using the Warlord Epic Pike and Shotte rules we set up an encounter scenario based on one out of a magazine again. I had also devised some random event cards based on some ideas of my own and a few borrowed from other rule sets. Ian as commander of the Roundhead forces selected a card which made an opposing commander drunk with a minus on his Command level. Ian played it on Oliver Cromwell who was leading my cavalry. For us Nigel pulled a 'Bluff' card which we also placed with our cavalry in a weak attempt to 'bluff' Ian into thinking it was something more worrying...I am not sure it worked.
Deployment, Parliament (Nigel and I) on the left, Ian's Royalists on the right.
Oliver Cromwell getting drunk on a hill with his troopers.
The Royalist cavalry facing their Parliamentarian foes engaged in a face off for the first 4 turns.
Nigel soon got his foote troops lining the hedge and was getting the better of a firefight with the Royalists.
Ian tried using 'column' to get his foote units quickly into position; sadly his poor command throws slowed him down.
Ian's cavalry getting ready to charge.
Ian's infantry trying to move forward.
The bottom three cavalry units are mine. Being drunk clearly inspired Oliver Cromwell as my three units routed three of Ian's units and made the fourth unit withdraw 'shaken', (the unit with the yellow counter).
With their cavalry wing destroyed and their infantry advance stalling before it had even begun, the Royalists conceded and a Parliamentarian victory was declared. This was another fun game and it seems like these rules are now our rules of choice for the ECW as they are fast and fun.
Fast and fun is always good
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