ECW - just for arguments sake you understand

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Please no-one say DBR or FOG-R

And what exactly is wrong with FoG:R???

If we do imaginations, you can run the full gambit from Condottieri up to Polish winged Hussars.

Oh no, you didn't just mention the "H" word in front of the P-U-R-P-L-E one did you?

[Jeremy]

Sorry Baron. I know you like them. I just really, really don’t.

[Etranger]

I like Pike and Shotte, but I would, wouldn't I? Baroque would require us all the base our troops the same. Good luck with that!

EB can provide guidance.

[Purple]

This is deeply frustrating.
For years I’ve been saying ECW in 28mm and you’ve all been telling me I’m bonkers.
Now I’ve fallen in love with Essex 15mm range, you all start brandishing about the period!

My problem, I’m ahead of the curve.

[Jeremy]

I gave a HUGE Royalist army away to my mate when I left SA. All fully painted and 100% Essex miniatures

[Essex Boy]

This is deeply frustrating.
For years I’ve been saying ECW in 28mm and you’ve all been telling me I’m bonkers.
Now I’ve fallen in love with Essex 15mm range, you all start brandishing about the period!

My problem, I’m ahead of the curve.

Welcome to my world.

Iain

[FreddBloggs]

The idea of Purps being in EB world with white stilletos and TOwie is a terrible threat to humanity!

[Timmo]

This is deeply frustrating.
For years I’ve been saying ECW in 28mm and you’ve all been telling me I’m bonkers.
Now I’ve fallen in love with Essex 15mm range, you all start brandishing about the period!

My problem, I’m ahead of the curve.

Don't do it – check out Eureka's new 18mm range. If I didn't have armies already this is the way I'd go. Thing with ECW armies is really I think they should be considered cavalry armies with infantry support, which is why I think they really suit 15/18mm so well. It's not just buying them but the space they need to deploy. If I was starting from scratch I'd get a few regiments of cavalry painted first for each side, to get a leg up.

[Etranger]

... and you need a lot of (mostly rubbish) cavalry for the ECW.

[Timmo]

…it tended to misbehave frequently. At Lansdown a large chunk of the Royalist horse took one look at Hasselrigge's (spelling with as many of the letters allowed as possible) Lobsters and fled. Mind you they may have had a point. The Lobsters were fully tooled up Londoners looking for a scrap.

What I find odd about the ECW is not very long afterwards the hard core Royalist horse from the Oxford army destroys the Lobsters who got themselves caught in a traffic jam. Until recently I didn't realise that the Earl of Essex feared the Oxford horse so much that he kept away from wide open spaces.