"An English Civil War Regiment of Foot, in 15mm at 1:1" Topic

I had a thought, and well… this happened. More pictures, rationale and other nonsense link

That really is sadly impressive….

Given that's double typical depth (6-man files) it shows why strong units might sometimes form up in two battalia in the field.

Woohoo!! Amazing! Sir, I salute you!

Nice, be interesting to see how they look 6 deep. In fact you have enough to do 2 'typical strength' regiments at 1:1.

There have been proposals that 8 rank deep deployment was used by the Parliamentarians at Edgehill. Odd to think that ECW 8 ranks is a deep line, but Napoleonics 9 ranks deep is a column 🤔

Thanks all, if only my kitchen table was bigger…

11 more regiments and you can put on a game.

Would definitely need a bigger kitchen table. And movement trays the size of sofas.

Love it – even doing a second one to look at a melee and fire between two units would be interesting

That. Is. AWESOME!!

A great way to visualize what a unit would look like.

Mr Pig must be a rich man now.
Very nice.

martin

Wow – very impressive!

Thank you. I've often thought of doing this but haven't, even though my game table is a ping pong surface.

Amazing! Well done!

This clearly demonstrates why in wargames wheeling is so limited or can't be done. You look at a 24-figure unit and you think it's easy to wheel, but when you see this, you can understand why you shouldn't be able to wheel so easily. It's impressive.

[whistles] Impressive!

Thanks all, glad you liked it.

Lovely to see so many miniatures.

Discussed lightly in this thread:

TMP – The footprint of the Tercio, Dutch and Swedish battalions

The files may have been six feet apart (maybe siz/eight/ten/twelve ranks deep. But this would have been a forming-up and manouevring schema.

So the 1,000 person battalion at ten ranks deep would have been at least 600 feet wide.

In the actual fight they might have marched the rear-half of the file alongside the front-half – thus doubling the number of files.

So the 1,000 person battalion would now have the same width but be half the depth.

Or could be that the shot keep the deep files and wide spacing so that a pair of files could march out front to fire; whilst the pike doubled files to receive a charge = although at six feet apart a lot of enemy shot would whiz past into thin air.

* I believe that the ten companies would have been equalized and then used to form five-company battalias. (circa 300 feet or 100 yards wide)

Thank you Stoppage. This exercise was always going to be slightly flawed due to kitchen table parameters. The whole thing has promoted some very interesting discussion, particularly over on Twitter.