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So it's ECW for Ayton 2020?

tim.w wrote: ↑Wed Jan 02, 2019 9:08 pm So it's ECW for Ayton 2020?

If it’s 28mm, I’m in. If any other scale, I’m out

Paul wrote: ↑Tue Jan 01, 2019 8:14 pm

Wg Cdr Luddite wrote: ↑Tue Jan 01, 2019 5:41 pm Fred's right. 6mm is the way forward. The new Baccus WEC range is excellent.
And you'd still have most of that windfall left for things that matter like beer and pies !

Wow, imagine an Ayton sized game in 6mm. A whole county sized campaign over a weekend, at 1:1 figure scale. Has anyone ever gamed with 20000 6mm figures in one game?

Mind you, at Ayton you could probably do that in 15mm !!!

Yes- Ruarigh & co did Towton at 1:1. http://towton-2011.blogspot.com/2011/10 ... -over.html

Etranger wrote: ↑Tue Jan 01, 2019 8:25 pm As well as potentially poorer.

Re rules: Pete Berry's Forlorn Hope rules, although not without some issues (Timmo come on down!), would be my pick of the current crop.

Carnage & Glory, the computer moderated rules, have an ECW variant, which I have but haven't played. There's no reason to think that they won't work as well as their 18th and 19th century versions do.

I've ordered a new set of ECW rules. Hope they come soon. I'll let you know. Aimed at big battles with smooth fast mechanics. We'll see.

Forlorn Hope has a few issues. Firstly it's slow to play, secondly there is a major flaw in the combat mechanics that fly in the face of history. Basically the authors make the pike the most powerful offensive weapon and they base their cavalry tactics on what happened at Edgehill which isn't at all representative of what happened during the rest of the war. There are fixes though.

What rules are you waiting for, Timmo, if you don't mind me asking?

Iain

Jeremy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 02, 2019 9:20 pm

tim.w wrote: ↑Wed Jan 02, 2019 9:08 pm So it's ECW for Ayton 2020?

If it’s 28mm, I’m in. If any other scale, I’m out

.........errrrrrr...........no. Too easy...........

JHB, Kruger, Benoni, Pretoria, PE, and maybe Capetown.

Jeremy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 02, 2019 8:13 pm

HMS Priapus wrote: ↑Wed Jan 02, 2019 7:24 pm Thanks, I even get 2 weeks in South Africa out of it at the end of the month. Which I'm quite looking forward to. Appears to me a few meetings squeezed into an otherwise rather avocational schedule.

Where are you visiting?

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 02, 2019 10:02 pm What rules are you waiting for, Timmo, if you don't mind me asking?

Iain

I don't mind you asking at all.

These…
https://www.wargamer.com/reviews/twilig ... ine-right/

I'm going to change them from IGOUGO to card activation. I've done that with Forlorn Hope and it's shouldn't be to hard to do again.

We were talking about them a few pages back They sound interesting, as do the ones they are derived from for the late C17th.

Thank you. I'm much obliged.
And I'm a member of the society.....
Iain