ECW - just for arguments sake you understand

[grizzlymc]

Handy, having all those heads on spikes like that.

[Essex Boy]

I suppose there's no point me suggesting 20mm or 1/72? SHQ and Tumbling Dice?

Thought not.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Thanks, Huw - I knew I'd seen them somewhere.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Don’t let your ‘friend’ get too hung up on uniforms, I very much doubt the supply arrangements were that competent. Most ‘coloured’ regiments would have a fair smattering of Buff/earthy browns/very off-whites in their clothing range.

On "another forum" I've suggested your friend look at "local" forces, who - like the early war "big" armies - would have largely been in civilian clothing. As LT suggests, this would have involved various shades of "undyed wool/cloth" for the foot and dragoons, and buff coats (usually sleeved, but sometimes sleeveless) for the horse. And don't fall for the "coats/flags the same colour" myth, as many folk have done, including Soiled Nit re-enactors (one unit insists on having black coats, as well as flags in spite of no evidence for the former - which was a notoriously expensive colour to dye; also, I'm fairly sure that Lord Brooke's Regiment is actually referred to as having purple flags, rather than purple coats).

[Jeremy]

I thought EB was the authoritative voice on skirmishing pikes?

[Essex Boy]

Actually, I only have one 20mm unit painted and not such a huge pile of lead - I'd be very happy to do ECW in another scale.

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[Jeremy]

I have shed loads of Warlord plastics which need an excuse to be painted.

[Essex Boy]

Of course, deciding on scale will be as nothing compared to the problem of deciding on rules!

[Paul]

I suppose there's no point me suggesting 20mm or 1/72? SHQ and Tumbling Dice?

Thought not.

I've always liked them but, given the lack of variety of ranges in the scale, I suspect the suggestion might fall on dead ears.

Of course, deciding on scale will be as nothing compared to the problem of deciding on rules!

Surely a 'Rank and File' variant?


Of course if you want a Pike and shot period where Pike was actually was actually significant the Rennaisance/Elizabethans would be better

[Essex Boy]

Yep.......20mm is a non starter.

Woohoo.......Rank and File rocks.

Renaissance and Elizabethan? Never heard of them.