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

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

goat major wrote: ↑Sun Jan 27, 2019 9:02 pm I asked a question how can you agree with me ?

I thought it was a rhetorical question.

Count Belisarius wrote: ↑Sun Jan 27, 2019 9:23 pm I'll settle for just agreeing and decide on who and what later...

Before I comment, what do you mean?

I thought it was one of his most sensible posts

See. The Goat knows...

goat major wrote: ↑Sun Jan 27, 2019 9:02 pm 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.

Count Belisarius wrote: ↑Sun Jan 27, 2019 9:38 pm See. The Goat knows...

Yes, that must be it.

goat major wrote: ↑Sun Jan 27, 2019 8:26 pm 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.

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?