Fred’s 2022 Painting and Gaming Diary

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Looks good

[fred.]

Thanks both- yes an enjoyable smaller game. And at the smaller end of Irregular Wars games too

[collegialhoagie]

Looks like a fun game and an interesting matchup, thanks for sharing

[fred.]

Looks like a fun game and an interesting matchup, thanks for sharing

Thanks


Not entirely sure how likely it was historically - but seems at least plausible!

[fred.]

For King and Parliament (FKaP) 

This week we went forward 100 years or so in time, and returned to good ol' Blighty. Played scenario 2 from the Marlowe to Maidenhythe fictional scenario book. Figures are nearly all Pendraken. 

Parliamentarian forces furthest from the camera attacking the Royalists across two commons, hence the lack of terrain on much of the table. A fairly asymmetric battle, with Parliment just having 3 units of horse, but having better quality foot and a unit of guns. 
The Royalists have a lot of cavalry (7 IIRC) but limited foot, and what they have is poor quality with a low amount of shot. 

Parliament's forces pushed ahead initially, and maintained a good battle line. On the right flank a Royalist Forlorn Hope garrisoned the village, but these were shot out pretty easily by the two Parliamentarian regiments. Artillery fire was smoke and noise, but to no effect. 

Parliament's cavalry surged ahead on the left flank, to engage the Royalist cavalry. The initial charge by the Parliamentarian Dutch Horse saw them coming of worse against the smaller Royalist units. The Royalist cavalry then charged back in - and broke 2 of the 3 enemy cavalry units!!



General Grey (under a saltaire banner for no good reason) decided he needed to join his remaining unit of Horse to sweep away the distrupted Foote unit in-front of them. This didn't go to plan! The pikes of the foot proved too steady and Grey himself was killed! (In game terms this was highly unlikely - the foot had 3 x 20% chance to hit, and managed 1 hit, the cavalry unit saved, but the General with an 80% save chance failed, then managed to roll badly on the Wounded chart, and was seriously wounded, so removed from the game 40% chance of this happening).



This left Parliament really struggling from a Morale perspective having lost 10 of their 14 medals - the Royalsist had only lost 3 by this stage. 


There was now a fairly ineffective infantry fire fight in the centre. Both sides taking the odd disruption but nothing significant. 



On the right flank the Royalist horse had pursed the fleeing Parliamentarian horse, and where brought under control once they reached the hedges, but where unable to get turned back around to return to the fight. 

On the left flank the Royalist cavalry advanced, and turned to be able to move into the flank of the Parlimentarians. Parliaments infantry on the left occupied the village, but struggled to move much beyond the hedges. 

This left a hanging flank - which the cavalry charged into (although as I write this I wonder if we missed a rule here, as the cavalry went through an enemy Zone of Control - the unit in the village - and I think they should have had to stop when entering this). With 10 attacks on an already damaged unit, this was a fairly predictable result. 



In the infantry fire-fight somehow the poorer Royalist troops prevailed shooting off two enemy units!

All in all a rather decisive (and quick) Royalist victory. 

[mmcv]

Very nice, don't often see cards used for it in smaller scales (I've generally gone chits for activation then cards or dice for combat), what frontage are your ECW units? They look damn fine all lined up like that.

[fred.]

Thanks - the units are 120mm frontage (3 x 40mm square bases) The movement trays are a little bit wider. 

The cards are some quite small ones, I guess about quarter size, that I got 6 packs off eBay for about £5. I think they are normally sold to go in party gift bags. 

[paulr]

   

You're right Fred, that horse couldn't ride across the front of the occupied village

[fred.]

Thanks for confirming Paul. Strange how I missed it last night - as it was a remote game I was the mover of figures so wasn't playing a side so should have picked this up. Probably wasn't material as I think 3 units were killed in that turn to break the Parliamentarians 

This makes it 2-0 to the King!

[fred.]

From the conversation on another thread about live projects I thought a little photo of my desk would be informative (even just for me to inform me of what I've got going on)

[fred.]

Napoleonics
British Dragoons, Infantry & Commanders
French Dragoons and commanders

ECW
Scots pike and shot unit


Epic 6mm
Tyranid bio-titan (just one the others are for painting and basing guides)
Tyranid genestealers (still in bag)
Squat mole mortars and crew
Spaceport builds (painting touch up)
Monorail (MDF)

Boxer Rebellion (28mm)
Japanese Marines
Sailors (bought painted just need basing)

Renaissance
Black Band - pike, guns, gendarmes and command - probably the most figures
Empire Command base - a small repair job
Lots of bags of stuff hiding at the back
Japanese Peasant Archers

WWI/WW2
European Houses

6 headings
15 different forces/terrain

[fred.]

ECW Scots Pike

Think these guys are pretty much painted now

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Superb!

[pierre the shy]

Very nice Fred.....I recognise those figures, got a few myself 

[fred.]

Thanks both - they can move onto the basing stage - and perhaps I'll get a few of the others based up at the same time. 

Lots of stuff that needs finishing - so that should be the next focus.