"2nd Newbury - homebrew rules and The Kingdom is Ours" Topic

Just posted a couple of AARs for the 2nd Battle of Newbury:

- with my homebrew rules – link

- with The Kingdom is Ours – link

Can't say I could get along with The Kingdom Is Ours – any ruleset that needs almost 100 dice rolls to resolve a relatively simple melee isn't fast-play in my eyes. Dividing everything by 4 (dice, kills, activations) made a big difference. A few nice ideas though to steal for a new homebrew set, and I think I'd echo the discussion in another thread that the "ideal" ECW ruleset still seems elusive.

My ECW rules playtests and AARs at link

Nice pictures on your blog. And some interesting thoughts on TKIO.

Thanks for sharing

Thanks for the report on TKIO. I bought these rules and they looked too complicated for my taste, so I've never used them. Now I don't think it's just me. If others like them, that's great.

If you are aiming to do large historical battles you might want to take a look at the Twilight of Divine Right rules from the Pike & Shot Society – pikeandshotsociety.org

Some information here – link

and here – link

Hi David, I apologise for possibly hijacking your thread, but I found your blog fascinating, and saw the playtest of FK&P of Adwalton Moor. As a co-author, I was, of course, interested! One of the points you raised was that combat was less bloody than TtS. I found this curious, as that was my first response when Simon proposed it. He pointed out that drawing two cards each with a 30% chance of a hit, plus a small chance of two hits, rather than one card with a 50% chance of a hit, actually resulted in more hits! I pointed out that we would need to educate people to expect more failures on individual cards, or the results might tend to depress the men a tad! Obviously we did not educate people well enough! Another puzzled question, if I may? Did your two players share the same pack of cards? We always have a double pack for each player, which changes the odds a bit. Apologies again for asking you to go back to a playtest which took place a couple of years ago, but I am genuinely curious.

Will give Twilight of Divine Right on my next ECW outing – thanks for the heads up.

Re: FK&P I think we shared a pack – but as you say a while ago. I do like card driven mechanics, faster than dice usually, and I play all my games on grids, so certainly likely to give FK&P another outing – will make sure we use two decks!

Thanks all for other kind comments.

Thanks for responding, David. If you do give FK&P another go you might like to look up the To the Strongest forum on Tapatalk. It has a couple of threads on FK&P, and Simon and I look in regularly. So if you have any queries, we will be happy to try and answer them. In the meantime, enjoy Twilight of Divine Right!