Activity
-
Charge The Guns replied to the topic Black Powder Epic Scale Waterloo in the forum Black Powder 2 years, 3 months ago
Hilarious, good one Keith 😆!
Which of the Epic scale armies are you thinking of getting?
(Excuse me for asking, but are you the same Keith Flint, author of Shadow of the Eagles? Interesting looking set of rules. The cover alone is tempting!)
-
Charge The Guns replied to the topic Clarification of “ disorder” rule. in the forum Pike & Shotte 2 years, 4 months ago
Hi Dave, Glad to hear your enjoying your games of Pike & Shotte. Hope I can clarify the bits that are causing confusion.
The Disorder from melee is as a result of a Break Test. If you look at the Break Test Result Table on page 76 you will see that when units are forced to retire as a break test result that they also become di…[Read more]
-
Charge The Guns replied to the topic Wargames Annual 2022 Released Featuring Some of my Work! in the forum Hail Caesar 2 years, 4 months ago
Stunning work as always 👍
-
Charge The Guns replied to the topic Th battle of Moncontour – 1569 in the forum Pike & Shotte 2 years, 4 months ago
Great looking game 👍
-
Charge The Guns replied to the topic Terrain for Inverlochy 1645 in the forum Pike & Shotte 2 years, 5 months ago
Thanks, Bowman! It is a fairly straightforward battle to do, and can be an up hill struggle (in many ways!) for the Royalists due to the number of Campbells there. Let us know how you get on.
-
Charge The Guns replied to the topic Byzantine Dismounted Bucellarri Complete! in the forum Hail Caesar 2 years, 5 months ago
Wow those are absolutely lovely 👍. I’ve always thought Byzantines make a good looking wargames army, and your forces are really proving that. This unit looks awesome. The long mail/scale armour (I guess actually designed for fighting mounted?) looks great here. I pity the barbarian hordes trying to break that shield wall.
-
Charge The Guns started the topic Auldearn 1645 – The Game in the forum Pike & Shotte 2 years, 6 months ago
<p class=”p1″>My latest blog post covers the Auldearn 1645 game that The Friends of General Haig played at Warlord Game’s Open Day. A hard fought game which went down to the last turn of the day. More pictures, and to see the result, visit: https://theviaregia.blogspot.com/2021/09/auldearn-1645-game.html</p>
-
Charge The Guns replied to the topic Auldearn 1645 – The Armies in the forum Pike & Shotte 2 years, 6 months ago
Thanks, IO, much appreciated 😀
-
Charge The Guns started the topic Auldearn 1645 – The Armies in the forum Pike & Shotte 2 years, 6 months ago
<p class=”p1″>Latest blog entry on Auldearn 1645, looks at the armies for the battle being re-fought at Warlord’s Open Day on 25th Sept. Includes details on the orders of battle with stats. and scenario rules for use with Pike & Shotte. The scenario rules cover the Covenanter’s surprises attack and the Royalist’s response to it.</p>
<p class…[Read more] -
Charge The Guns started the topic Auldearn 1645 – The Battlefield in the forum Pike & Shotte 2 years, 6 months ago
<p class=”p1″>I’ve just posted a new blog entry on Auldearn 1645, that looks at setting up the terrain for the battle at Warlord’s Open Day on 25th Sept. As there is fighting in the village itself, the terrain includes buildings, and I have described my approach to organising the fighting in built up areas.</p>
<p class=”p1″>More pictures on the…[Read more] -
Charge The Guns replied to the topic 2 queries -preparatory bombardment and assaulting BUA's in the forum Black Powder 2 years, 6 months ago
Hi Peter,
On the preparatory bombardment; we have used some pre-game random roles to potentially add some stamina losses to units considered to have been under a preparatory bombardment. e.g. roll a D6 for each unit, on a roll of 5 or 6 then lose 1 stamina.
On BUAs. These are difficult to take in BP, as I think they should be. We have found t…[Read more]
-
Charge The Guns started the topic Auldearn 1645 & Boath Doocot in the forum Pike & Shotte 2 years, 6 months ago
<p class=”p1″>The lovely folks at Warlord have asked The Friends of General Haig to put on a game at Warlord Games Open Day on 25th September. We’re going to recreate Alasdair Mac Colla (and Montrose’s) victory at Auldearn, 1645. Latest blog post is on building the Dovecot for the battlefield https://theviaregia.blogspot.com/2021/09/auldearn-1645-b…[Read more]
-
Charge The Guns started the topic Terrain for Inverlochy 1645 in the forum Pike & Shotte 2 years, 6 months ago
<p class=”p1″>Just posted an update to my Inverlochy 1645 blog here https://battleofinverlochy.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-field-of-battle.html. This post covers how I went about recreating the battlefield. The material for this post has sat around for a while but rediscovered it while having a digital tidy up. Alba gu brath!</p>
-
Charge The Guns replied to the topic Free moves page 34 in the forum Black Powder 2 years, 7 months ago
Ah, I see. Thanks for clarification, Gary. We’ve never interpreted it like that. I think our logic is that, if a unit is entitled to a free move, then this entitlement is on the basis of what the unit is, or is doing, not on the basis of being the unit where the commander fluffs his roll.
Couldn’t you say that every unit in a brigade has te…[Read more]
-
Charge The Guns replied to the topic Free moves page 34 in the forum Black Powder 2 years, 7 months ago
Any unit that has not received an order that turn. It doesn’t matter if you fail a command roll for that unit, or before you get to it.
Hope that helps?
-
Charge The Guns replied to the topic Rules Question Thread in the forum Black Powder 2 years, 7 months ago
Hi Arcole, in my view a unit could be ‘stranded’ in open order just outside of a wood while it tries to get the order off to move in or reform after coming out. Being in open order it should suffer the -1 for skirmishers in melee so that it is vulnerable to being attacked.
-
Charge The Guns replied to the topic The Battle of Freezing Hill in the forum Pike & Shotte 2 years, 7 months ago
Great looking game, RR, with lovely looking armies 👍. I really like the way you have done the roads over the fur terrain matt.
-
Charge The Guns replied to the topic Latest additions to my Napoleonic Armies in the forum Black Powder 2 years, 7 months ago
Lovely additions, Ferg. The Spanish troops look especially fabulous!
-
Charge The Guns replied to the topic Lord General in the forum Pike & Shotte 2 years, 7 months ago
Many thanks, IO and RR 👍.
He was a controversial character, for sure.
-
Charge The Guns started the topic Lord General in the forum Pike & Shotte 2 years, 8 months ago
<p class=”p1″>I needed a Lord General command base for my New Model Army. Started with a Warlord metal figure and then converted to add some whimsical character. Changed the hat for a classic three bar English pot, and went on from there. </p>
<p class=”p1″>May be somewhat inspired by Revelation 6:8, “And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and…[Read more] - Load More