Delving into the battles on Old English Soil? Then here’s a perfect way to create a stunning backdrop or objective for a game! Sarissa Precision kits are easy to assemble and great value for money. We offer a number of large bundles of their buildings, giving you an entire table’s worth of terrain in a single one-click…
Lord Thomas Hawksby’s regiment is a fictional English Civil War Parliamentarian Infantry Regiment of Pike, Shotte and an attached Company of Firelocks created by the very skilled ‘Mikeland’. Mikeland’s OldEnglandGrownNew blog tells of the daring tales, adventures and characters of his regiment in 28mm miniatures, words, photos and pictures. Here’s just a taste: Where are your old…
The Army of Montrose and the Millitary Revolution by Charles Singleton Famous By My Sword in Store A brilliant young poet, leading a gallant band whose epic adventure ends in defeat, betrayal and execution. Montrose was a doomed King’s general who dared to win – and lost it all. The Scottish Royalist armed forces, along…
The fighting men of the English Civil War had more uniformity than their counterparts on the continent in the Thirty Years War, but such uniforms were at the discretion of the Colonel who raised the regiment. The officers seemed to have worn their own civilian dress in a variety of styles and colour and it…
Pike & Shotte musketeers The musket – the mainstay of your army – was first invented by the Spanish in the early 16th century – and were originally designed as a much heavier weapon intended to be mounted upon fortified walls. However they were soon adapted to be used with a simple forked rest which…
The illustrious Steve Morgan author of Pike & Shotte has been sharpening his pikes once again to take us through his English Civil War Edgehill Project: Before starting an English Civil War army it’s important to decide what force you want to head and why. Many of my gaming friends base their ECW armies on…
The mainstay of the armies of the era, the roles of the musketeer and firelocks were pivotal in this new age of warfare. The pike blocks of infantry were usually supported on each flank by ranks of handgun armed men. The role of the musketeers was to pour as much firepower at the opposing enemy…
Our eagerly awaited Thirty Years War supplement for Pike & Shotte is now shipping out to customers – which means that it’s the perfect time for us to release some reinforcements for your armies… this week we have two new releases – a new contingent of Musketeers, and the Armoured Pike Block. Pike & Shotte…
Last Friday, we released the Pike & Shotte Ordnance Battery set – offering some serious fire support for armies of the 1500 – 1700 period. The set contains three guns, and a host of resin defences to keep them safe from incoming fire… We thought we’d take the opportunity to look back through the Warlord…
It was a rare thing for a general in the 17th Century to take to the field without an artillery train to intimidate and pulverise the enemy lines. These cannon and mortars were terrifying weapons, belching smoke and flames with a frightening roar that no simple country lad was likely to have heard before. View…
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