English Civil War Project posts.

[Bishop Lord]

As mentioned in the General area of the forum I'm starting out on a very new project for me,ECW with Pendraken miniatures and I will be posting up my progress on my Blog. So I thought I would put a post here so that I can update with fresh links as they appear,for those of you who are interested to view the progress from idea to battlefield. Hopefully it will also start up some friend;y and constructive conversation about the period,so people with far more knowledge of the period may share their thoughts. So here's the link to the first post 'ECW inspiration'... general musings.

http://grandscalewargaming.blogspot.com/2011/12/ecw-inspiration.html

Jason

[Sandinista]

Try "The Readiness of the People" by A J Hopper, and "The Civil War in Yorkshire" by David Cooke both good reads

[Nosher]

Tis surely a wonderful period

I have loads of PD ECW to work on in 2012 but will try to find the time to photograph some of my Baccus ECW regiments and put them onto my blog in the New Year along with unit names. The great thing about the ECW is that just about any combination of colours could be argued to be right given that most units got what coat colours their commander could afford.

Looking forward to seeing progress on this one

[Fenton]

The English Civil War by Richard Holmes is vry good

http://www.amazon.co.uk/English-Civil-War-Military-Wordsworth/dp/1840222220/ref=sr_1_80?ie=UTF8&qid=1324138481&sr=8-80

[Bishop Lord]

Next post made on Blog regarding ECW this post is about some scenery here's the link for anyone interested.

http://grandscalewargaming.blogspot.com/

Jason

[Fenton]

I'm about to go down this route myself, though I still might opt for 6mm ( Sorry)...Bishop  Are you going for 4cm depth or 6mm depth?..Personally I am thinking of 6cm because it would make the cavalry the same depth,What are you thoughts?

[Bishop Lord]

I'm going with 40mm x 20mm bases as it will then fit in with various rules sets and I'm starting with a WMA variant which we are all using at our club, all ECW armies used are Pendraken so when some action is fought I will post up some picces

Ive also posted up the next instalment of my ECW venture (still on the buildings stage at the moment though) on the Blog:-
http://grandscalewargaming.blogspot.com/

Jason

[GordonY]

Looking forward to the piccies Bishop, at the moment I'm waiting for Leon to post me the start of my ECW project.

Good rules for this are Regiment of Foote by Peter Pig, I've played them and they really do give the flavour of amateur soldiers commanded by bungling incompetents. Fun!!!!!!!!

Gordon

[nikharwood]

Nice looking village - what's the WMA variant you're playing? Tony Barr's Renaissance Master or another one?

[fred.]

The paper houses from Brummbar's site look good, I've got a few of them, and I think I should get some more printed and made up, the ones I have are rather shiny as they were printed on a colour laser, rather than an inkjet.

[jchaos79]

I could suggest as a complement the rick priestly rules "1644".  It is great book for the period and have great pics (28mm). I do not use the ruels but could be usefull if you are interested in apporach the period

[broeders]

We're wargaming Marston Moor on Saturday.  the battle report will be on my blog next week

http://philbancients.blogspot.com/

[Steve J]

We used to regularly play this as a board game that came free with a wargames magazine in the early '80's. Many happy memories of battles fought at the end of a long design project as a way of unwinding, naturally accompanied by beers .

[nikharwood]

battles fought...as a way of unwinding, naturally accompanied by beers .

Sounds great - what time would you like me to arrive? 

[Bishop Lord]

Hi,

Just to say my Parliamentarians arrived this week so Ive painted the Generals command stand and have posted the photos on my blog.Hope you like.

http://grandscalewargaming.blogspot.com/

variant you're playing?

Ive down loaded a few variant sets for WMA, but first off I will be playing the one a chap from our club has put together.

Good rules for this are Regiment of Foote by Peter Pig

I'm hopefully going to be having at look at these as well.

I could suggest as a complement the rick priestly rules "1644

I would agree good sir, is a great book for ideas and eye candy.