"Royalist or Roundhead?" Topic

Who would you have sided with?

Family history points to Royalist…so says those ancestors who survived.

Not Cavaliers?

Head and heart say Parliament, but…
I'd never have had the choice – my city was staunch Royalist, and that would be that.

I usually end up playing Royalists on the tabletop, though, because some of our group prefer playing Parliamentarians, whilst I don't mind either way.

fashiion would dictate Cavalier, easily.

Royalist

Those Roundheads were way too stodgy

Royalists sure knew how to party!

Royalist

Royalist

Parliament.

Parliament …

Royalist. I like Prince Rupert character so much!
Marco

Mercenary! I'm a foreigner. :-)

- Ix

Royalist.

I'm with "1066 And All That" on this.

Royalists – "wrong but romantic"

Parliamentarians – "right but repulsive"

Tough choice….

I normally play Parliament, but at heart I'm a Covenant Scot.

Jim

Fashion and a deep aversion to religious fanaticism = Royalist!

Montrose Scot.

Parliament leveller

Confederate Irish

Another vote for the Confederate Irish!

Montrose Scot although being from Mackenzie stock I dare say I would have flipped flopped a bit!!

Parliamentarian (40 years re-enacting the same).

Royalist. But that is with the benefit of hind sight.

St Albans boy from way back, so probably Eastern Association by birth.

Roundhead because it led to the end, albeit briefly, of monarchy – a system of government with I loathe. I am against the system, not the person, and it would have been much fairer if Charles I had not been executed; much better to have exiled him and his family and hangers on instead. It saddens me that, within a few years of the execution, the English concluded that they could not carry on without a king – such an infantile attitude. They might as well have exiled Charles then brought him back.

Exile Charles and he'd set about raising an army and plotting his return on day one.
Fight another war, exile him again, rinse and repeat.

His complete belief in the Divine Right of Sovereignty remained serenely undiminished in the face of all evidence to the contrary.

Having said that, I reckon the restoration was a common-sense compromise based on the understanding that the ship needs both (A) a competent helmsman and (B) a decorative figurehead, and that things run a lot smoother when those roles are separated.

I will be playing the Royalist at Brent Oman's house this Saturday. My friend Terry will be driving, so I'll have to sit in the back. His hero is the Darth Vader of the ECW--Cromwell.
John and Rupert's dog

If gaming, Cavaliers. I love the charge with cold steel, firing pistols in melee, pursuing after the fleeing Roundheads, usually off the board's edge, where we all meet at the local for a few rounds (with heady heads).

If during the day, I'd likely be trudging along with a London Trained Band, but not far from the city before I would lose interest.

I have no use for royalty. Parliament.

Irish!

Royalist.

"How so you know he's a royalist?"
"He has it tattooed on the back of his neck."

I do actually have a tattoo of the word "royalist" on the back of my neck, or upper back really.

Royalist. The Parliamentarians helped create all of these modern problems.

As a descendant of complete and utter peasants (both sides), I'd probably have done whatever the local big-wig told me to. Had I been a gent, I'm not sure; I'm a royalist now (not least because it's so much fun winding up modern-day republicans), but I'm not sure I would have been back then, given that there were taxes and stuff involved.

Roundhead then and Roundhead now, even though I am (probably) descended from Edward III.

Roundhead and Leveller .

Royalist (my name should make that clear)…

covenanter

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Parliamentarian

"Fashion and a deep aversion to religious fanaticism = Royalist!"

This, even though I hate royalty and all it's trappings almost as much as religion.

Family history dictates that I would look on in wry amusement and wonder what all the fuss was about.

Royalists. They needed all the help the could get.

Parliamentarian of a Digger variety

Cheers
Ian

My family are Catholic so Royalist it has to be.

HH

As a fairly liberal-minded individual my natural inclination would have been to side with Parliment but I also root for the underdog so… Royalist.

Probably Royalist.

Irish.

Like Clarendon, I would be a moderately reluctant Royalist.

Mollinary

I share the distaste for religious fanaticism, so probably a Royalist, but with Leveller tendencies.

Parliament (also been reenacting them for decades). The Divine Right of Kings if left alone would have led to either a french style revolution or an 1848 event. Unless of course William of Orange still arrives in 1688

Reenacted Parlimentarian for years and I have no problem with that.