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A rather splendid set-up.
All the good wargames make you wish you were there with a command. I so wish.

donald

Not bad, Paul. You should write rules.

Thanks, donald

Couriers/ADcs add an interesting dimension to a game imo. In each of our ECW armies, we have 2 individually based, mounted figures we'd used as couriers. Our new rule set, 'Victory without Quarter' , a card-based activation set of rules, doesn't need them. Any thoughts as to a mechanism we could add...

To me, it almost seems a two-tier way of grading cavalry. EG Rupert's cavaliers - Gallopers- tended to smack the early Parliamentarian Horse )-trotters- around. and when Cromwell got his act together, the Ironsides - gallopers- dominated.

donald

The 'Victory without Quarter' rules ask you to designate all Horse as Gallopers (Swedish style- ie charge home) or Trotters (Dutch style- eg fire pistols). I think this fair enough. Most Royalist Horse should de labelled "Gallopers" for instance. But how about the Covenanter cavalry? It wa...

Simply beautiful.

donald

Iain. Behave.

donald

David. They'll certainly be worth the price.
The biggest - only - issue is if you can live with the trade-off between historical detail & simplicity.
Let me know how you go.

donald

Thanks, Iain. I value your opinion.

Impossible to get this headwear in "my" scale so I love them/envy them in equal proportions.

donald

I would love you to paint some elephants for me, Iain.

Sadly, I can only afford to pay you peanuts.

donald