What Is This All About Then?

I am embarking on an English Civil War project as well as my Oldhammer WFB 3rd edition project; Warm Ale and Mud.

I decided to do this as my WFB ‘armies’ are complete and whilst I have plenty of buildings and villagers to do, the hankering for a force took over.

Combine that hankering with the fact that much if not all my Warm Ale and Mud terrain and buildings could pass as English then I would not really need to make much if any ECW terrain at all. 

So it seemed to make sense, a nice diversion but without too much extra work.

Now, there are many ECW rules out there but if any of you are familiar with my Warm Ale and Mud WFB project you will know that I like small scale skirmishes that are story driven and entertaining in their own right.

Big battles are not what I want with my 25mm games.

So ruleswise I wanted something that would work at smaller scope clashes and ideally as teeny tiny scraps, almost like rpg scenarios with just a dozen or so models per side, much as with my WFB.

Enter then, Warhammer English Civil War.  (WECW from now on).

I shall be using these rules as I am familiar with the game mechanics and they allow ‘skirmishes’ and ‘brawls’.

I know NOTHING about the period but some quick reading has increased my knowledge from 1 on a scale of 1 to 100 to a 2. So double, which can’t be bad!!

As is my want I am not doing it quite as one would expect.

I have opted to go Parliamentarian as my home town of Birmingham seems to have been aligned with them more than the King.

BUT….  My ‘army’ is obviously not a regular army.

It is a company, sort of.

It is a free company of soldiers, mostly foot with a troop of cavalry and a gun.

It is Captained by Andrew Stockton of Irish decent who made his money in the printing game in Hamstead in the Midlands.

With war having broken out and being mostly Parliament loyal he and his lads attach themselves to whatever regiment is near by and they fight with them. Except when they don’t. Often as not Stockton takes his company off to do whatever he fancies at the time, that could be a spot of looting, some robbery, smuggling, special assignments from a rich employer, or sometimes just settling private matters with the lads.

In game terms, this allows me to wander around fighting in full scale pitched battles as part of a regiment, to small clashes with his company, and tiny covert assignments of just a handful of men.

Quite probably not what happened, but then again who really knows, but more importantly, fun to do.

Figures are ordered and I shall update the blog when they are here.

Thanks for dropping by!!