ECW - just for arguments sake you understand

[Count Belisarius]

I'll settle for just agreeing and decide on who and what later...

[Jeremy]

I have forces purchased and unpainted for ECW, so that’s what I plan to build. I like Simons Imaginations idea and think it will work well

[Essex Boy]

I asked a question how can you agree with me ?

I thought it was a rhetorical question.

[Essex Boy]

I'll settle for just agreeing and decide on who and what later...

Before I comment, what do you mean?

[goat major]

I thought it was one of his most sensible posts

[Count Belisarius]

See. The Goat knows...

[Paul]

I asked a question how can you agree with me ?

I'd take it...it doesn't often happen!

To be fair a wider scope would mean I already have a useable Elizabethan army. However where rules cover wide periods it normally means a lot of compromises and even then the writers normally recommend only pitting armies from the same period against each other.

[Essex Boy]

See. The Goat knows...

Yes, that must be it.

[Etranger]

I’m not a renaissance expert by any means. Would an imaginations game easily fit across the whole renaissance period or is it more sensible to pick - say - 17th C ?

The Dutch managed to get an Eighty Years War out of it! Troop types and formations changed over the period, but not universally and not contemporaneously. For example the Spanish were still using tercios (probably quintessentially Renaissance) against the Dutch linear (What we'd consider to be typical pike and shot warfare) formations.

There was also a bit of P&S warfare in North America,so all sorts of unusual encounters are feasible.

[Paul]

Osprey publish a book specifically aimed at 1590-1660. There is probably a good reason for those dates so that might be a good starting point?