Having tried and failed to get anyone interested in playing FoG-R again, being unwilling to rebase the armies for ADLG-R then been not that impressed by 'For King and Parliament' Dave and I thought we would try out the 'Never Mind the Matchlocks" variant of the popular "Never Mind the Billhooks" rules for the ECW/TYW. Dave took the Swedes while I had the Imperialists.
For an initial game we just lined up two similar armies with all the units 'average' to see how the rules played:
Swedish Horse crush their Imperialist opponents:
The Imperialist left advances:
Pike and Shot close while the Swedish cavalry rush forward in pursuit:
Fire is exchanged:
More infantry action:
Imperial Cuirassiers unsuccessfully charge Swedish foot:
At this point we called it a day with neither side having suffered serious losses. The foot units seemed very difficult to break while the mounted were quite fragile (One routed without taking any losses!). There were probably too many troops for the table size and the vanilla nature of ECW/TYW armies didn't help when we had two very similar armies but on the whole it was an interesting game and I'm sure we will give it another go.
Very colourful 😁
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