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arliamentarian side against dan and keith taking the royalists keith had played the game many years ago so maybe had a slight advantage although not a great picture here is the board after the inital moves during july and august 1642 the parliamentarians are stronger in the south whilst the royalists are stronger in the north the king holds the north midlands but there is concern he is isolated with not many troops around him there was some minor skirmishing in the south of england and fairfax for the parliamentarians looked to move his army north towards oxford but was unable to find safe passage without bringing a major engagement which would have been disadvantageous with the size of the field army he had to hand the royalists did take advantage of their numbers in the west midlands region though and attacked waller who had managed to move north from the south west this brought about the first field battle of the war in september 1642 outside of a village just outside of gloucester called churchdown to translate the boardgame situation to the tabletop we simply adopted 1pt of foote or horse in the boardgame to 1 unit on the tabletop i also gave each army a couple of guns and a unit of dragoons just to keep things interesting using the regiment of foote rules we used the scenery set up as per the rules but didn t use the death rolls section as the strength of each army had been already determined in the boardgame as the royalist army under the command of prince rupert had attacked they were the attackers in the tabletop game they deployed on the outskirts of churchdown facing open moorland with some enclosures and rising ground upon which the parliamentarian army deployed under the command of william waller rupert was a nephew of charles i and commanded the royalist cavalry during the english civil war rupert was born on 17 december 1619 in prague his full title was count palatine of the rhine duke of bavaria but he was known as prince rupert of the rhine his father the elector palatine was briefly ruler of bohemia but in 1620 was forced to flee to the netherlands where rupert spent his childhood his mother was charles i s sister elizabeth rupert became a soldier and fought in the thirty years war 1618 1648 this gave him useful military experience when in 1642 he joined charles i s army in the english civil war he was soon appointed to lead the royalist cavalry and fought in the first major battle of the war at edgehill in october 1642 his cavalry charge completely routed the parliamentarians but he got carried away and pursued them too far from the battlefield losing the chance to inflict a decisive defeat other military successes gave him a formidable reputation although his relationships with other royalists commanders were poor they thought him arrogant and he was impatient with what he saw as their lack of professionalism in 1644 rupert led the spectacular relief of the siege of york but then in july he was defeated by a parliamentary army at marston moor losing york and the north of england for the royalists in june 1645 he took part in the battle of naseby at which the royalists were defeated rupert now advised charles to seek a treaty with parliament but the king believed he could still win in september rupert surrendered bristol to parliament in response the king abruptly withdrew his commission rupert left for exile in holland in 1648 part of the english navy mutinied and sailed for holland where in january 1649 the prince of wales gave rupert command the naval campaign took rupert s ships to kinsale then to lisbon and in november 1650 to defeat by commonwealth admiral robert blake off carthagena in south east spain rupert escaped and spent the next decade in the west indies and then in germany after the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 rupert held a series of british naval commands fighting in the second and third anglo dutch wars he died on 19 november 1682 waller fought for bohemia in the early campaigns of the 30 years war 1618 48 and was knighted in 1622 elected to the long parliament in 1640 he became a colonel in the parliamentary army upon the outbreak of the civil war in september 1642 he captured portsmouth and soon after several other towns of southeastern england thereby earning the nickname william the conqueror promoted to the rank of general he seized hereford herefordshire in april 1643 nevertheless on july 13 ralph hopton severely defeated him at roundway down wiltshire waller prevented the royalists from invading sussex in january 1644 and stopped hopton s advance on london in march but he was defeated by king charles i near banbury oxfordshire in june the setbacks suffered by waller and other talented commanders led to demands for a reorganization of the parliamentarian forces waller was evidently the first to suggest the creation of a professional army this new model army was formed in february 1645 and two months later waller resigned his commission waller was a leader of the presbyterians in parliament during their unsuccessful struggle 1645 48 with the army which was dominated by independents radical puritans for opposing cromwell s commonwealth regime he was imprisoned several times between 1649 and 1659 although elected to the convention parliament of 1660 waller never took his seat and subsequently received no political encouragement from king charles ii here are parliamentarian forces within the enclosures of farmer barlow a local landowner in churchdown dragoons skulk around looking for an advantageous position ruperts men approach dilly s wood as they approach the royalist positions a clash of horse on the royalist left flank as silas hancock leads his horse across the common some royalist horse took flight chased away by hancocks men though he managed to reign them in from heading for the royalist baggage waller here atop callcott hill the royalist centre was weaker here and the gap in the enclosures was a focal point for the royalist advance the first push of pike across the nasty hedges of the enclosures on the royalist left hancocks horse continue the fight against the reiters of wallers army a counter charge took hancock by suprise as the parliamentarians rallied the swirling melee continued for some time rupert spied the opportunity to force the issue in the centre on the slopes of callcott hill a general shot of the battlefield to be continued next week churchdown can be seen in the middle right sir algernon smythe mp commander of the royalist right has managed to swing his foote around to assault the extreme parliamentarian right across the enclosures as this is a campaign game the generals may decide to withdraw from the field to preserve their army however there will be a risk in doing this rules undecided as of yet friday night will see the conclusion of the fight and hopefully some more manouvering ready to set up the next battle more soon posted by sean clark at 11 47 1 comment labels ade ariel dan s ecw keith h kev s peter pig regiment of foote stoke wargames group the english civil war boardgame monday 11 july 2022 a new lease of life the last few years have gone by in quite a flash it s funny that as you get older time distorts contracts and slips through your fingers like water there s only ever decreasing amounts of it left for you to squeeze in all that you wnat to do wargaming wise it s been quite a journey through various love affairs with the likjes of games workshop mantic and privateer press in the fantasy and sci fi genre to 6mm 10mm and even 2mm with too fat lardies black powder and blitzkrieg commander in the historical side of the hobby i have spent way too much money not painted or played near enough sold mostly at a loss whole collections only to then buy back into a period or project at greater expense of course there s been no small matter of the global pandemic as well as the trials and tribulations of real life parenting work and marriages to maintain and keep together oh and significant mental health issues with diagnoses off complex ptsd and emotionally unstable personality disorder bought about by childhood trauma and my dad been sentenced to 14 years for offences committed over 35 years ago too terrible to discuss i ve ran a moderately successfully podcast which is in all likelihood staggering towards a conclusion i ve also not been a particularly good person to friends family and colleagues letting them down at short notice failing to maintain contact and generally retretaing into a cave like existence having said all that i am still upright and breathing and my hobby butterfly is in full flight as i dance around between various projects so this is a long winded way to say that i am going to try and resurrect this long ignored blog and my youtube channel my aim is going to be pretty much as it was 14 years ago when i first set it up to chart my hobby progress both here and on the billy goat youtube channel i ll post and produce content as and when i feel like it with no set timetable agenda or focus the creative freedom to do as i wish will hopefully liberate me to be well more creative the irony is that any followers this blog may have had will have wandered off elsewhere and in any case the whole blogging concept has perhaps moved on without me there are far more hobby content creators out there than ever before in numerous mediums i do wonder whether blogs have had their day still i ll continue and see how things develop so in the spirit of picking up where i left of all those years ago here are two pictures of my latest mexican revolution project first is my hq base for my governement federalista army all figures are peter pig for their fighting for mexico rules here we have some government troops from the second half of the revolution likely the carranza period more properly these are constitutionalist troops but they will fight as part of my government army all the same okay thats enough of me wittering on let s see where this takes us more soon posted by sean clark at 11 24 3 comments tuesday 18 may 2021 what s all the this then not sure how these things work anymore but check out billy goat wargaming i m still working on my camera skills they re somewhat limited i need to look around and do some research on how best to do the painting videos posted by sean clark at 20 44 no comments wednesday 26 december 2018 plans for 2019 it s that time when we all start thinking about what the new year will hold for us on the hobby front i generally am far too much of a hobby butterfly to have any hope of sticking to i might consider as i type this my interests can sometimes fluctuate between breakfast and lunch never mind week to week or month to month anyway here are some to consider and hopefully look back on come 12 months from now 1 play more games i would like to aim for 1 a week but that may be too optimistic still reach for the stars and all that 2 finish off the rebuild of my samurai and wars of the roses collections the acw and awi collections are all but done for now these are my core collections of figures for my favourite periods also in this category is my ecw collection but they are also in a finished for now state 3 sort out my scenery i ve paid far to little attention to scenery over the years so some hill building and building building is in order 4 attend as many rfcm game days as possible i already do this but i want to maintain this wherever possible throughout the year there is a viking day in february squarebashing in june and the weekender in november but hopefully there will be others 5 show attendance is less important to me these days but i imagine york alumwell salute hammerhead and the partisans will be my definates probably 5 or 6 compared to over a dozen in previous years blame the internet and family life i suppose for the decline but i ll look forward to them all the same 5 will do for now not too taxing let s see how i get on more soon posted by 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