I've been working out the orbat of the Royalist army for the One Hour Wargame solo project today. The core of the army is the five regiments of foot raised in 1642 including Sir Nicolas Slanning's, Colonel John Trevanion's, Colonel William Godolphin's, Sir Beville Grenville's and Lord Mohun's regiments of pike and shot.
These varied in size, so I will use a mix of three and four pike and shot blocks on each regimental base. In fact, Grenville's regiment was twice the size of sone others, so I may well model that with four of the larger pike and shot stands, rather than three. I will also include a least one base of the less reliable and rather grumpy Cornish Trained Bands, who were under equipped and less enthusiastic than the regiments raised by the landed gentry.
I've have included two regiments of cavalry to represent Sir John Berkeley's and Sir Thomas Digby's horse, although both commanded foot units at various times as well. There is a further mounted unit of dragoons under Sir John Digby which will act as skirmishers. The artillery is only one base in strength, as the Cornish army was quite weak in this respect.
This lot adds up to about twelve bases from which up to six can be selected or randomly chosen for each game, the default number in the One Hour Wargames rules. I'm also going to use the Horse and Musket variant of the rules, at least to start with, so that I can include skirmishing dragoons and the artillery, both of which are not featured in the Pike and Shot set up for some inexplicable reason.
All looks good so far 👏👏
ReplyDeleteFor multi-strip bases I do pretty much the same as you, so 3 or 4 IM pike & shot strips. I also add a small artillery piece to roughly half the foot bases, and maybe a mounted command strip too.
I usually try to vary the type/size of the IM pike & shot strips (this especially helps if you’re trying to squeeze 4 p&s strips, plus artillery and mounted command onto the base).
Good luck with your continued efforts👍
Cheers,
Geoff