"The Lessie's Moor Scenario using For King and Parliament" Topic
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Guillaume deGuy | 26 Sep 2017 9:20 a.m. PST |
I am currently working with a draft copy of For King and Parliament and just did the "Lessie's Moor" scenario which was recently demonstrated at COLOURS. This is a 10mm game (mainly Pendraken) and scaled down to play on a 3x4 foot tabletop. The AAR is here: link |
Joe1870 | 26 Sep 2017 1:46 p.m. PST |
I am interested in seeing these rules when they become available. |
Gonsalvo | 30 Sep 2017 6:08 a.m. PST |
Great post; I hope to play the same action with the final play test rules in the next weeks. In the US we don't have the advantage of the background from the TV series, though! :( Peter |
BigRedBat | 30 Sep 2017 7:39 a.m. PST |
Hi Peter, "The Archers" is a quintessentially British radio show, which I must confess I have very rarely heard, myself. It started in 1951 and has a cracking theme tune. Andrew loves it, though! I reckon you could probably download it in the US, it's on Radio 4. Won't help much with the rules, though! :-) |
Mollinary | 30 Sep 2017 7:59 a.m. PST |
Hi All, BRB exaggerates somewhat, but I have often found myself listening to it on the car radio over the decades, as I drove to cricket matches, so it has gradually been absorbed into my system. What I did love, however, was being able to drop recognisable(at least to many Brits) characters and story lines into our playtesting games, where historical battles didn't provide the particular test of the rules mechanisms I was looking for. As Bill has noted there are a number of command and control challenges in the game, which are quite deliberate – we were at the stage in rule writing where the new command and control rules required a thoroughgoing test. I am happy to report that the system stood up to the challenge well! Andrew |
Tom Stubbs | 30 Sep 2017 10:02 a.m. PST |
Timothy Bentinck, who plays David Archer, was Sir Thomas Lacey in By the Sword Divided, the BBC series in 1983 and 1985 about our Civil War. |
Elenderil | 30 Sep 2017 11:48 a.m. PST |
There were two battles fought in Borsetshire during the Civil Wars. The battle near Ambridge early in the war and a second towards the end fought deeper into the county (source BBC Archers webpage maps of Ambridge and the county). I was present at the reenactment of the 350th anniversary of the Battle of Ambridge in 1993 (AKA the BBC recorded us as background sound effects at Oakwell Hall). Other than that and reports of a ghostly civil war drummer haunting the Bull little is known of these actions. I applaud your attempts to bring these events to a larger audience 😊 Don't forget Ned Larkin or Walter Gabriel's part in events….me old pal me old beauty. |
Mollinary | 30 Sep 2017 1:10 p.m. PST |
Hi Elenderil, I think your post should say 'There were two battles RECORDED AS fought in Borsetshire during the Civil Wars' I hope our journey with these rules will discover a number more! Andrew |
Elenderil | 30 Sep 2017 1:36 p.m. PST |
Good point well made Andrew. Keep the reports of this little known theatre of war coming. |
Guillaume deGuy | 01 Oct 2017 9:05 a.m. PST |
Thanks, Gonsalvo. I had never heard of "The Archers" (I'm in the States also) and even after reading Andrew's scenario, did at first not grasp it's origin. Ended up spending time sampling the enormous body of material available (Wikipedia, YouTube, BBC, cartoons… 😀). As Elenderil suggests, Borsetshire provides much scope. Andrew and Simon have the rules working really pretty well and they are great fun to play. Plan to do Inverlochy (1645) next. |
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