The STOKE LANE battle for our ongoing English Civil War campaign game will be tomorrow!
Today, we did a playtest of the masking of Star Wars Miniatures Battles system onto the English Civil War era.
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| Parliamentary Dragoons press into a town, catching the Royalists sleeping |
We laid out a quick tabletop, only 1/3rd of the size for the coming game, and went through game mechanics for SWMB.
Rob did not have any large-ish, skirmish level battle rules for the black powder era. I had used SWMB before with some success in mixing modern era units with the slower-loading black powder ones, to show the effects that the slow-loading have when compared to the single-shot yet faster loading percussion cap weapons. It was some militia vs redcoats stuff in the late 1990s.
I was familiar with SWMB from that time as being quick yet effective for the 1-1 sort of skirmish scale that the battle of Stoke Lane calls for.
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| table at game start |
put through about five turns quickly on the small table to get the 'kinks' worked out - I will be single basing all the horsemen in the final game - I tried having a few on double bases (2 per base) no good, since the skirmish nature calls for up to 1-1 match ups when in close-combat
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| four dragoons that overwhelmed a lone horsemen from the Royalists |
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| Parliament started a fire in the oak (coaching inn) and here we see the Royalists forced out into the street without arms |
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| more dragoons ready to lay down fire |
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| burning building |
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| the Royalist commander (in the vest) actually stumbled out of the inn without arms or much of anything on as he failed multiple 'waking' rolls |
The playtest done, now onto the main event tomorrow!
Next game is planned to be in support of HMGS "Cyber Wars" of Bussaco from 1810, on July 25, 2020.
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