In the last but one post in this series I talked briefly about which battles to choose to represent on the tabletop as it looks like there will be too many to do. In the comments Steve J suggested a method that I think I will adopt: pick a leader and play out his battles as figure games and run the rest using the board game's battle rules.
Next step then would be how to select the terrain for these battles. One option is to use Peter's method of picking terrain cards from a deck. Here's how it works:
https://gridbasedwargaming.blogspot.com/2018/12/ecw-campaign-cards-and-terrain-cards.html
Another option that occurred to me today was to pick an historical battle, preferably one in the same area as the battle on the board, and lay the terrain out using that. So if I chose to follow Sir Ralph Hopton around I could use the terrain from Braddock Down, Stratton, Lansdowne, Roundway Down etc. Force composition would be as described in my last post on the subject, with each Horse Strength Point converting to one unit (4 bases/troops) and 3 Foot SPs converting to a battalia (1 pike and 2 shot bases). If there wasn't a historic Hopton battle available I would find the next nearest one.
The slight down side of this second option would be that my table is narrow and long (3 feet by 5 to 8 feet) so some fudging will have to be done. If I used the card method, I would just use the requisite number of cards say, 1 card to every 1' or 1.5' square. No firm decision needs to be made. I always have the option of changing my mind mid-campaign.
Next issue is working out an efficient method of packing the board away when I need to get the toys out, and setting everything up properly again after the battle.
0 Comments