Add to Wishlist. Pike & Shotte - Battalia Starter Army Box (80 Inf, 24 Cav, 10 Firelocks) Unavailable. For more information, see the TMP FAQ. May 2nd, 2018 - Pike Amp Shotte The Basing Wars Fun On A 6 X4 AND An Extra Christmas Bonus Of Warlord S Pike And Shotte Rules Pike And Shotte Is More Of A' 'Olicanalad s Games Pike And Shotte First battle AAR and April 18th, 2018 - Pike And Shotte First battle AAR and post battle conclusions about the rules Peter and Graham like myself''PIKE AND SHOT WARGAME RULES TYNESIDE WARGAMES CLUB … Turno S Wargaming Blog Pike … As always these look great. That they were mercenaries, and that they could be awkward employees (like the Swiss). Similarly for cavalry with commanded musketeers. Rules and basing options (not to mention figure scales) for TYW is one of those issues that I’ve often returned to but never resolved. The only way this formation can be effectively represented on the table is as a single unit (IMHO). FREE home delivery over £20/$36/€75. Probably not as they seemed to function differently. Although I don’t think I’ll be using brigades in line formation this is how it would look. However, although they undoubtedly existed for use as scouts and so forth, I can't find them (in separate units) in the French order of battle for any field battle between 1495 and about 1530 (my chosen era). All members in good standing are free to post here. I do for 80mm if space was not a concern and 60mm otherwise. Pike & Shotte Follow in the footsteps of honourable men of war with Pike & Shotte, the historical miniature tabletop wargame by Warlord Games. Below are the OOB sheets with the unit details. The store will not work correctly in the case when cookies are disabled. Another thing I like about the way Pike and Shotte is set up, is that most things look very tweakable at the level of the basic unit. Of course I solved my own problem by writing a set of rules for the Thirty Years War called Tilly’s Very Bad Day. This is incredibly important as re-basing 1800 or so figures would be quite an undertaking. Had a few Italian wars bashes using P and S and they've always been fun and pretty brutal. Unit characterisations might change from one scenario to the next as might the odd 'value' but that is for the future. I’ve put four pikes and eight shot on each base. TMP Rules For 6mm Pike And Shot Topic. Pikemen in line. Battalias in hedgehog formation. I very much like the cautious rule, and will probably nick it. You’ve suggested a two-base square for the Swedes. It's a difficult one, and I choose to take the 'options' out rather than argue about them during a game. It worked rather well. Pike & Shotte - Firelocks (18) Unavailable. I wanted to take advantage of this to give each regiment some more ‘flavour’ based on how they actually performed on the day of battle in 1642. My own is 6 infantry- or 3 cavalry figures on a square inch. View product. Coming at the problem of colunelas from the P&S angle I came up with exactly the solution I had before. Pike & Shotte 28mm historical tabletop wargame covering the Thirty Years War, English Civil Wars, Italian Wars and Wars of Religion. Other Games & Osprey Books. norseygamer english civil war pike amp shotte rules. It is a battle line with pike support. It will be interesting to see hopw your take works out. English Civil War At Writtle Pike Amp Shotte Rules. A standard unit is usually 3 to 4 stands. We had both played a couple of games of Pike and Shotte and a game of Black Powder at Historicon back in July, and had enjoyed the rules, so we were keen to try them out with our own toys. None-the-less it was a very early nudge towards big bases. Whether I put them in a matched pair as a brigade is the bit I’m debating with myself. For our second battle, using Pike and Shotte, I'm going to be ambitious. In the future I may class some units of mounted shot (such as Giovanni's 300 mounted arquebusier) as dragoons, giving them the option to dismount. Pike & Shotte Rulebook. We did, and I have a report and pics. Remember we also looked at the DBRRR option – and I do believe it might be the way to solve your dilemma. We had both played a couple of games of Pike and Shotte and a game of Black Powder at Historicon back in July, and had enjoyed the rules, so we were keen to try them out with our own toys. These rules have 40x40mm bases. These men are in your command. Painted up in two separate Battalia of Foot - one in red coats for a generic Parliamentarian army and the other as Prince Rupert's Blue Coats. I’m like your idea of one 80×40 base £20.00 £18.00. Next post will be it.James. However, it seems that once they had been formed into colunela (about 1503 / 4) they remained 'fixed' formations of mutually supporting troops. Hey John. Unit characterisations might change from one scenario to the next as might the odd 'value' but that is for the future. We will play the game using the standard rules, including (against my judgement) the. The armies for this Wednesday night's battle are detailed below. Most of my shot are based on 90 mm x 45 mm (skirmish) stands (4 figs each) but these might need rebasing. These are the foot figures, less the firelocks, from the Warlord Games Pike & Shotte Battalia box. Normal Impetus bases are 80mm wide however at the time there was a big discussion on the Impetus forum about how to do renaissance and the suggestion was 120mm wide for pike and shot units. This shows how the brigade would normally be deployed, i.e. This offended me because it broke the Impetus convention – of course nobody listened to me. free postage ON UK ORDERS £60.01 AND OVER* UK orders of £60.01 and over will have the postage charges refunded when the order has been processed. You may have guessed by now that I do not strictly follow the basing suggestions within the rules, rather I use the Pike & Shotte amendments that I covered in separate posts. that could lead to confusion, but P&S can be a wonderful toolbox and I'm very interested how this colunela will work out and develop.Michael. I’ll post better photos when we get the army finished. My cavalry regiments are really squadrons and based in one rank. I have to take my hat off to P&S: At last a set of rules flexible enough to do this. would you treat each base as representing, say, 1000 men, or would each base represent an historical formation with a varying strength factor? Indeed, if I was to make the pike and arquebus separate, that's how I'd do it: pike with sword and buckler support, two stands of each, pike up front and swords behind. Starter Set; Rules and books; Digital Rulebooks; Dice & Equipment; Conflicts . I'm intending on using them for 15mm figures but I have a few questions about basing. 80 = good size and more figures. Regular price SGD$39 60 SGD$39.60. ... of rules but I am starting a couple of armies for the Nine Years war in 10mm and am having problems understanding the basing for dragoons. If that is the case, I think the army list should reflect that fact. Unit frontage for infantry is shown at the top of the plan. They are grouped 500 Allemans of Jean Bernardin Carach and 100 Allemans of Le Batard de la Balme.I can scan the page and send it to you if you are interested as it appears to show Chevaux Legers at a major battle. Consequently, to encourage these tactics I have down rated their hand to hand value from 6 to 4 and wish to introduce a new special unit characterisation rule called, I am also going to reduce the range of the cavalry crossbow to 12" as it would be stirrup or lever crossbow; they did not use an infantryman's arbalest loaded with a windlass. 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