Rules list for Pike and Shot era games

[Radar]

https://m.facebook.com/groups/792409668842460/permalink/793747698708657/

[Cholmondely Percival IV]

Thank you. The link works but it looks as though one can only download the rules by joining the group, which means joining Facebook - a step too far for my liking.

[Cholmondely Percival IV]

A further entry: Wargame the English Civil War 1642 - 1651 in the Paper Soldiers series by Peter Dennis, with rules by Andy Callan.

[Friends of General Haig]

@Cholmondely Percival IV - no problems with your diligence and effort in searching out further rules - all info. much appreciated (although the next update to the list is going to be a big one!  ).

@Radar - thanks for providing the link and the Witchfinder rules, Mike  .

@NickNorthStar - thanks for following up.

[Vis Bellica]

For completeness, you could also mention that For king & Parliament now has two scenario books available, both written by me and available along with the rules from the Big Red Bat's shop:

[Friends of General Haig]

Thanks so much for these, Rob. 

I am going to add a separate list for scenario books and these will be a great addition.  I guess the new Montrose books will perhaps go in this list as well?

[nicknorthstar]

Just another thing about the Archworld rules, I recalled that is was this picture in the book that inspired me to buy it. I think it was the first time I'd seen a piece of art trying the depict the close quarter struggle of a pike block. Hope you like it. (I'm probably not supposed to reproduce the art)

[Vis Bellica]

Thanks so much for these, Rob. 

I am going to add a separate list for scenario books and these will be a great addition.  I guess the new Montrose books will perhaps go in this list as well?

Yes, and I can't wait for them to be published either!

[Friends of General Haig]

Just another thing about the Archworld rules, I recalled that is was this picture in the book that inspired me to buy it. I think it was the first time I'd seen a piece of art trying the depict the close quarter struggle of a pike block. Hope you like it. (I'm probably not supposed to reproduce the art)

That’s a really striking picture, Nick.

[Cholmondely Percival IV]

I did say I might have missed some of the rules listed by Caliver Books and I’ve now noticed two that I’d overlooked.

The first is Pike and Shot by Slitherine (no author given but said to be based on Renaissance Field of Glory) and comes in CD-Rom form. It appears to be a set of miniatures rules rather than a computer game but this, along with other details, would require further research.

The second is a printed rule set titled Renaissance Warfare dating from 1998 and attributed to ‘Gore T’. There is more information here:

https://littlemenatwar.com/renaissance-warfare-rules-for-tactical-miniature-battles-from-1494-1690-a-d/

BGG also has an entry but no reviews.

[Radar]

Pike and Shot by Slitherine is a computer game

[Cholmondely Percival IV]

Thanks for the clarification. Unfortunately Caliver Books’ descriptions are often lacking in basic information, as in this case. Have you played it, by the way?

[Radar]

Yes. Expect a review on KeepYourPowderDry imminently

[Cholmondely Percival IV]

For anyone who may be concerned about me, I do have a life; it just happens to consist of obsessively exploring rabbit holes of various kinds depending on whatever impulse happens to possess me at any given time.

With that out of the way, here are some more rules currently listed by Caliver Books for the pike and shot era, omitting some that appear to merely overlap with it (though there seems to be no hard and fast rule about this and I have to admit I’m not being entirely consistent).

As a case in point, I’ll begin with Face Another Foe: Wargaming the Lace Wars, 1650 - 1750 by Jon and Diane Sutherland. There is second volume, including army lists and scenarios for this.

The remainder are more specific to the pike and shot period as normally understood, beginning with a revised edition of a classic tome:

Wargaming Pike and Shot by Don Featherstone. I don’t know what other additions have been made, but this edition includes a set of ECW rules.

English Civil War Sieges: Rules and Scenarios for Wargames by Stephen Maggs, published by Partizan Press.

For God, King and Country: A Guidebook to the English Civil War, published by Canadian Wargames Group. Includes ECW rules and ten scenarios.

English Civil War: Secrets of Wargame Design by Wally Simon. Subtitled A Tabletop Toolkit of Ideas, Analysis and Rules Mechanisms. Includes a set of “very basic” solo rules.

There are also some naval rule sets but I will leave that area to those who are more nautically inclined.

[Radar]

The Featherstone P&S book does not have a set of rules in it, just a scenarios book.

(I've got the first edition)