Edgehill at Phalanx. St Helens

[Wargaming Dad]

Really beautiful looking game going on there, it's very inspiring for an EWC newbie like myself.

Edgehill is my "thing", so I'd be really grateful for the opportunity to pick your brains regarding troop composition and uniforms/colours etc.

'Ney Bother' it is reasonably well documented and therefore generally accepted that for Parliament, Charles Essex's foot Reg and the Lord Generals foot reg, wore tawny/orange coats and Lord Brooks wore purple. HRH Charley One's foot fops wore red (some say with red pants but others say red coats only but you will have to reasearch that).
Purely for aesthetic value and ease of unit identification on the table,I have painted each of my foot regiments in a different coat colour, in reality regimental coat colours would have varied widely (for those that had them), as I don't imagine quality control was high on the quartermasters agenda!!, and others in the regt would have worn what they could beg steal or borrow. I had painted one regiment in authentic dress/garb (ie all in varying coat colours) and to be honest it looked a bit naff on the gaming table, so I re painted them,in this case grey, with a few different coat colours thrown in and it looked far better (it's the one reg that I get most complimented for at shows/displays...and it's a Royalist reg....grrrrr )
Good luck with your research
W-D

[Rook]

Had the luck of being at Phalanx to see the game and chat to those that put it on. If was even better 'in the flesh' than the pics suggest and most folk seemed to be enjoying the game. I kept poping back as the game went on and can only say it looked "right" for how I imagine a civil war battle should look as a wargame. Excellent work folks.

[Wargaming Dad]

Thanks Rook,your comments are much appreciated
Myself and Cavendish put a lot of work into the display (Cavendish did the terrain tiles and the Royalist Army (Booo!) and I did the Parliament Army (Huzzah!) and some terrain bits). We did get a bit distracted at times, (Me particularly, as |I needed to speak to some of the traders and kept nipping off for a chat and to buy stuff).So sorry for that.
Glad you liked the game, we are hoping ultimately to put on Marston Moor in the future and we are slowly building up our forces for that (anyone fancy painting 12 boxes of Covenanter Infantry??? )

Cheers
W-D