"BP Pike and Shotte and ECW Campaign Updates on Blog" Topic

I've updated Steve's Fieldworks with a ditty on casualty counters for BP Pike and Shotte (thanks to Brian Smaller…I snagged HIS idea) and announcing a mini ECW campaign at my gaming house…The Rat Palace Redux. Enjoy!!

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Steve Miller
DFW Irregulars

Beautiful game. Makes me want to pull all my ECW figure out and run a game of Warhammer ECW. How do you like Pike and Shotte compared to WECW?

Pike and shotte is a Cadillac compared to WHECW as a Yugo. Easy to teach, easy to learn, and dice driven enough to not get the same result game after game.
My group likes it. I'm not going back to WHECW. And no Virginia, it's not the same thing as WHECW! LOL

Steve Miller
DFW Irregulars

OK next question while I do not agree with your assessment that you get the same results in WECW my concern with Hail Caesar!, et. al., is that you need tons of figures. Currently with my being able to run games of WECW I have well over 400 figures that comprise both Royalist and Parliamentarian forces, will I have to buy even more in order to run a decent game of Pike and Shotte? All my figures are single based which is another issue I see to switching to Pike and Shotte.

whitemanticore,

I've not played either rule set . . . but I have had to deal with individually based figures.

It is easy enough (and inexpensive) to construct sabots made of cardstock bases and thin balsa railings to hold the individually based figures.

Just remember to allow space for the railings you'll be gluing on (as well as for a touch of wiggle room).

If your bases are metallic, you might want to add a some "sheet magnet" on top of the cardstock. And remember that such does not lose any of its magnetism if you paint it.

-- Jeff

Hi Jeff,

Actually as a rule all of my figures are based either on square metal or on round fender washers in order to facilitate using moving trays with magnetic sheeting. Of course my movement trays are currently sized for my 28 mm ECW for playing Warhammer not Pike and Shotte. However, making new movement trays/bases with magnetic sheets is not a problem and you already mentioned the above methods in your post which I currently use in my own construction of movement trays.

Whitemanticore…you asked me about the game. I did give you my observations. You have enough figures to play both sides. Individual figures do not make a tinker's dam. If you've got enough to play and have movement trays, you're wired and cookin' with gas. P&S moves, shoots, melees, morales and plays by the unit. Individual figs don't "figure in". Try it you'll like it. I did and never looked back.

Steve Miller
DFW Irregulars

No problem pilum40 I am attempting to get clarification as 1) P&S is not a cheap rule book, and 2) I did not want to have to rebase or buy all new more figures. I have long been interested in the Hail Caesar mechanics as my understanding is that it is much like a 28mm version of Warmaster. I think Warmaster is one of the best games ever designed so a version based on that mechanic would indeed interest me. I appreciate the information.