"First "Pike & Shotte" Game -- ECW" Topic

Well Sunday Rob, Murdock, Alex and I fought our first ever "Pike & Shotte" game.

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We played on my 5' x 8' table using 28mm figures. I ran my cavalry figures with my Royalist partner, Rob running his foot. David and son Alex ran Murdock's troops.

David also posted an account of this battle:

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-- Jeff

Thanks for posting Jeff.
I am just having a look at these rules.
I see several people have made minor changes to them.
Clif

thanks, good to hear some 'first time' impressions

I am interested in these rules, but due to table limitations would like to make a unit up from 3 X 50mm bases – is there any reason why that would not work?

Norm,

Due to my pain during play on Sunday, I am in no shape to try to answer your question.

However the 3 x 50mm unit size will work well for the free "Victory Without Quarter" rules. Here is a link:

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One advantage of the VWQ rules is that they play well as a "solo" set of rules as well as face-to-face. I like them but our Parliamentary player does not, so we are trying other rule sets.

Whatever you choose, have fun, sir.

-- Jeff

Jeff, top link, thanks very much, I have done saved to iBooks and will read tonight. Cheers norm.

My only negative recollection of the VWQ rules was that there was a lot of artillery shooting. However, as the game is card driven that is easily solved by removing artillery cards from the deck.