Renaissance Skirmish Project in 15mm - 🧨 New Pic 14 March

[M.P.]

I'd welcome your feedback!

Mind filling out this short form so I have your info?

https://forms.gle/uvtNLMsLdfX19XUg9

I'm planning on sending out the first round of playtest rules to folks outside of my inner circle this weekend.

I've got a handful of those types as options right now, I think you'll be happy to see.

The special characters will likely come up during campaign play.

I'm planning on the progression system to be based around the warband as a group, rather than individual characters or troop selections.

So that as you advance, you "unlock" special characters or locations (e.g. a favored tavern, a blacksmith, a chapel) that give you various benefits you may select from... or at least that's the idea so far.

O that sounds so cool , can't wait to read the draft.

[M.P.]

I'm thinking about doing a board for your game. Will it change something game-wise if I reduce grid from 4" to 4cm? Or is it just a matter of aesthetics?

[WillPhillips]

I'm thinking about doing a board for your game. Will it change something game-wise if I reduce grid from 4" to 4cm? Or is it just a matter of aesthetics?

That's quite a jump! The grid is used in two chief ways:

• Movement and action (e.g. shooting, etc.) ranges
• Unit placement: you can have three bases in each square "zone," as seen here:

(I've overlaid the grid lines as my board has a fairly faint grid.)

So if you want to reduce the grid, you'll need to reduce the base sizes and, in turn, probably go down in scale. Here's my recommendation on sizes from the current draft of the rules. The smallest grid I'd use is 2" or 5cm for 6 or 10mm figures.



Your question is a good one and one I may explicitly address in the rules. Thank you for asking!

Also, please note my 25-32mm sizes are a bit of a hopeful guess. Getting three mounted figures or a small canon on a 2-2.5" may be asking too much!

[WillPhillips]

Just wondering why you went for multiple figures on a base?

A couple reasons:

• I wanted to have the lowest base count I could reasonably get away while still having a variety of model type.
• I wanted to avoid having a lot of different base sizes and different model counts on each base. (I've achieved with one exception: the terrain/scenary unit type called "Strongpoints," which uses a larger base.)
• So the common base size became what I could get a small cannon or horse-drawn cart on. That meant I needed to multi-base other types of figures to that size. At 15mm, that's 1.5" or 38/40mm.
• I was impressed with the diorama-style bases seen in big base games like Baroque and Kings of War and was interested in emulated that with a skirmish sized game.

[M.P.]

That's quite a jump! The grid is used in two chief ways:

• Movement and action (e.g. shooting, etc.) ranges
• Unit placement: you can have three bases in each square "zone," as seen here:

(I've overlaid the grid lines as my board has a fairly faint grid.)

So if you want to reduce the grid, you'll need to reduce the base sizes and, in turn, probably go down in scale. Here's my recommendation on sizes from the current draft of the rules. The smallest grid I'd use is 2" or 5cm for 6 or 10mm figures.



Your question is a good one and one I may explicitly address in the rules. Thank you for asking!

Also, please note my 25-32mm sizes are a bit of a hopeful guess. Getting three mounted figures or a small canon on a 2-2.5" may be asking too much!

Thanks for the answer , so I'll stick to the 4" grid. Another question - I'd like to playtest 15XX with a ruthenian highlander (primarily equiped with high quality fowling pieces and some pole arms) warband and the so called "harnicy" warband (arquebuse-equipped mercenaries hired by the county's representative to fight highlander bandits) - which unit types and basing should I consider for them?

[WillPhillips]

Thanks to all of you who sent me your contact info to playtest my rules.

I've emailed out links to the current playtest (and a Facebook playtest group, if you're on there).

Thanks to good ole COVID-19, my ability to playtest them with local gamers at local stores has been severely limited, so I'm looking forward to getting some feedback from others while we hunker down and ride out the pandemic.

[WillPhillips]

Thanks for the answer , so I'll stick to the 4" grid. Another question - I'd like to playtest 15XX with a ruthenian highlander (primarily equiped with high quality fowling pieces and some pole arms) warband

Without giving away all the in-development rules just yet , both of those concepts are totally do-able.

There is a Foot group with Pikes & Polearms as an option and a Shot group. The Shot group has three otions: heavy muskets, lighter arquebuses and calivers, and bows or crossbows. Both Foot and Shot more-or-less represent trained soldiers and each Group uses two bases (so six figures each). Depending on how you want to represent your Ruthenians, you could take a Group or two or Foot and the same of Shot.

OR, you could represent them as Rabble, which uses three bases (so nine figures for a Rabble Group).

Parties all have four Groups, so you could play around with those numbers to get what you like.

the so called "harnicy" warband (arquebuse-equipped mercenaries hired by the county's representative to fight highlander bandits)

This is probably a place where I would use the Shot Group again.

Parties have four Groups, but you have to use at least two different types of Groups. So you may want to pair the mercenaries with a Foot Group, Dogs, or one of the other Groups you see in the playtest rules that makes sense.

Also keep in mind that there are Party-level stats and qualities that will also help differentiate between the Ruthenian highlanders' Shot and the mercenaries' Shot if you choose to use both.

which... basing should I consider for them?

For 15mm, I'm using 1.5 inch (38-40mm) round bases for everything except for the "strongpoints" - terrain pieces you can select for your Party that grant various buffs. For those, I'm using a 2" round base (50mm).

That said, there is some flexibility in basing. I call that out in the rules.

[M.P.]

Thank you for your answer . I've read the draft, I am very impressed.

[WillPhillips]

Most of my time on this project has been focused on refining and testing my rules, but I recently took some time to knock out a few pieces of terrain in a very quick, slap-dash way.

https://tabletop.willphillips.org/2021/01/21/small-15mm-terrain-update/











Few more pics on my blog.

[Mr.J]

Very nice, I like the shrines.

[M.P.]

Lovely terrain .

[WillPhillips]

Tragedies in real life have taken my focus away from this project over the last two months.

Starting to circle back to the rules and painting.

Currently putting together a magnetized micro-diorama I can display an example warband with when I start to playtest the rules at game shops this summer.

WIP of the terrain: