ECW with the new Pike & Shotte Rules

[H.M.Stanley]

A friend has picked up the RB for me from Salute although i can't get my hands on them until later

I've dusted off my, sadly underused, 30YW/ECW Parliamentarian army used previously for WECW[WAB] and the unpainted figures i have for this

A clubmate, an ardent Royalist, is well up for this and another has a huge 30YW army, or two

I'm planning on running my pike-blocks in 24s with 2 x 12 sleeves of Shotte as my 16 fig pikes never looked right to me. Cavalry in 8 (or12) fig squadrons, depending on how much cavalry we want to put out in the games. Playability over aesthetics?

My infantry is multi-based, 4 x figs on a 40x40mm basing

I have painted (albeit that i need to bump up the infantry numbers as planned):

3 x Infantry Regiments
3 x Med/Hvy Cavalry
1 x Dragoons
1 x Cuirass [Early War]
2 x Artillery

To paint:

3 x Infantry Regiments
1 x Med/Hvy Cavalry
2 x Artillery

I'm looking forward to this, should be fun if Black Powder is anything to go by

Who else is doing this?

[OSHIROmodels]

I would certainly like too, ECW has always been a back burner project though (not having anyone near by to play with  ).

Let's us know what the book is like when you get your hands on it 

cheers

James

[joroas]

I had my set ordered from Amazon, suddenly Warlord seemed to have pulled them from their catalogue!!!!!

[H.M.Stanley]

I had my set ordered from Amazon, suddenly Warlord seemed to have pulled them from their catalogue!!!!!

Me too. Then the order sunk without trace

Cue my call tol the guys attending Salute

[Stecal]

Ordered the P&S book.  Have a pile of Warlord plastics to work on for a TYW Army.

Luckily WECW was always popular arround here so I can hopefully find some marooned WH opponents.

[Arthur]

I'll welcome some feedback when you get your copies : I'm officially curious. My only niggle about the rules is that they might potentially be a little too 'gamey' for my taste - i.e that the specificity of C17th warfare might get lost in the process of creating a fast-playing game.

[Arlequín]

My order was pulled too... maybe it was something to do with it being far cheaper on Amazon. Okay I know it was from comments I've picked up elsewhere.

 

[H.M.Stanley]

I'd say, after reading the rules, that its 95% BlackPowder with some interesting twists, some less so i.e Hedgehog and Caracole

My interest in the book is only ECW (30YW at a pinch) but i can't say that i'm thrilled how the lists are dealt with at first sight.

Still, we're going to give it a go a few times before we start straying from the rules as written

First game in a week or so 500 - 700 pts