Wednesday, 11 December 2019

Battle of Naseby - Battle Report

Naseby - a fairly straightforward ruck, really, as its a classic line up and have at each other.

Royalists put all of their cavalry on their left flank, with the infantry lined up across the rest of the table. Parliament went for cavalry on both flanks, infantry slightly more weighted to their left


Deployment and battle lines







The cavalry on both sides begins jostling for position, before Cromwell initiates a charge, the Cavaliers countercharge THEN find themselves charged in the flank by a second regiment of horse. A gigantic ruck ensues, which would see the cavalry battering each other all game on that side of the
field.


Meanwhile, the rest of the armies on both sides advance and begin trading shots. One unit crosses the hedge to engage Okeys Dragoons and makes short work of them





 More Ironsides push through the ranks to get at the enemy



Royalists brace themselves for the charge


On the other side of the table, the rest of the cavalry scrap it out, whilst Rupert calls them forward





Royalist centre advances



Parliament cavalry threatens shotte, but can't get near enough due to the pikes



Cromwell finally sees off Rupert, who gallops off table in pursuit of baggage and such


Lone unit of Cavalier horse, left getting shot to crap


Lines begin to close, whilst things heat up






Both sides advance in the mist






Once cleared, lines are quickly restored but an almighty fight breaks out between the infantry on the Parliament left




Ironsides take an absolute battering and break



Charles and his guard oversee the centre. Its not looking good though.



Rupert returns and gets an absolute fucking kicking for his trouble. Even Cromwell himself got stuck into this one


Superb Royalist rolling.


Charles finds his centre getting flanked and those puritan chaps getting rather close.


Whilst on the Royalist right, Parliament begins to break through.


The killer blow - the Eastern Association smashes across the rear of the Royalist force, who find themselves in dire straits and are forced to retreat. 



Then there is a breakthrough on the other flank from Parliament and its all over.





Big win to Parliament. Ironsides are NAILS, absolutely took every charge they received, fought back, kept it together and rallied for the end phase. Ruperts aggression played against him there.






Sunday, 8 December 2019

ECW - Baggage, Limbers, Camp

Getting through the last parts of the ECW pile now. Various bits and pieces, hurriedly bashed out to get them done and dusted.


Big baggage wagon? 25 mins from beginning to end - fast!







Gun limbers. Bit of a pain to build, but add a lot of character and niceness to the look of the table



This fellow having his leg sawn off - been waiting in the painting queue for about 5 years now







As has this chap, leading the mules and such




Lastly, a galloper gun. Put it onto two bases, mainly for ease of painting over anything else.



And with that............ECW 100% painted. No more models kicking about in a pile, in stray boxes or elsewhere. Unless I buy something else, of course.



Thursday, 5 December 2019

ECW - Cromwell, Charles I, Prince Rupert

Final set of characters. Speed painted as I can always return to these later and detail them more, as to be fair - these are pretty crappily painted and I can do a lot better than this, when the wont takes me. 

Not likely for some time though! I mean, I think these took 15 mins for all three, from undercoat to basing.



Cromwell




Charles I


Prince Rupert





Wednesday, 4 December 2019

ECW - Commanded Shotte

Regiment of commanded storming party for the English Civil War.






Again, very quickly knocked out and done, but still came out fine.


Also, with the odds and sods left over from various sprues, I also put together some various characters on foot, for various uses.


Monday, 2 December 2019

Battle of Naseby



Date: Sunday 8th December 2019, 12.00-18.00
Place: Old Sergeant, Wandsworth.

Table size: 8X6

Objectives

Objectives: Parliament

Defeat the Kings army, secure Parliamentary military dominance in England

Objectives: Royalists

Defeat Fairfax and the New Model Army, secure control of Royal Oxford


Royalists take first turn.

Cavalry brigades will not break unless all regiments in the brigade are shaken.


Deployment

Parliament

NMA to deploy along the southern edge of the table.

Okeys Dragoons may deploy outside of the main line, in advance and off to a flank, if they wish

Skippons Sniper may deploy in advance of the main line, if suitable cover presents itself


Royalist

Royalists to deploy along the northern edge of the table


Orders of Battle - Parliament


Fairfax (CIC Command 9 )

Pike (Standard)
Musket (Standard) - First Fire
Musket (Standard) - First Fire
Storming Party (Standard) - First Fire
Dragoons (Standard) - Marauder
Medium Cannon

Skippon (Command 8)

Pike (Standard) - Brave
Musket (Standard) - First Fire
Musket (Standard) - First Fire
Pike (Standard)
Musket (Standard) - First Fire
Musket (Standard) - First Fire
Commanded Shotte (Large)
Sniper
Light Cannon

Cromwell (Command 9)

Ironsides (Large) - Elite, Stubborn
Ironsides (Standard) - Elite, Stubborn

Ireton (Command 8)

Ironsides (Standard) - Elite, Stubborn
Ironsides (Standard) - Elite, Stubborn


Orders of Battle - Royalist

King Charles I (CIC Command 8)

Pike (Standard) - Elite, Valiant
Musket (Standard) - First Fire
Musket (Standard) - First Fire
Medium Cannon

Astley (Command 8)

Pike (Standard)
Musket (Standard) - First Fire
Musket (Standard) - First Fire
Pike (Standard)
Musket (Standard) - First Fire
Musket (Standard) - First Fire
Storming Party (Standard) - First Fire
Light Horse Cannon

Prince Rupert (Command 9)

Horse (Standard) - Galloper, Ferocious
Horse (Standard) - Galloper, Ferocious

If a regiment of Prince Rupert horse breaks an enemy on the charge and has a follow up move available, by destroying the enemy charged in a single combat, a command test must be taken at -3.

If failed, the cavalry will gallop straight towards the Parliament baggage camp two full moves, in pursuit of baggage, loot and cheap whores.

If passed, the follow up move can be taken as normal, as Rupert thinks better of it.

Langdale (Command 8)

Horse (Standard)
Horse (Standard)



Sunday, 1 December 2019

November 2019 Painting Tally

ECW Commanded storming party - 16
ECW characters, mounted and foot - 8
Surgeon- 1
Windmill - 1
Baggage wagon - 1
Baggage animals 1
ECW limbers - 2
Galloper gun - 1
Galloper gun limber - 1

Month total - 32
Year total - 809

Only 32 - light months work!