It’s been a while since we tried ‘Pike n Shotte’ so the crew decided to give it a whirl again. Since the last game, Alan has sold his painted and unpainted troops to Stephen and replaced them with Epic ‘Pike n Shotte’. Keith has also rebased his ‘Pike n Shotte’ army from one of those ‘DXXX’ rulesets and is fielding them for the first time(very pretty they are btw). So troops for this game are provided by Stephen, Keith and Russ.

Set up.

Other side!

Very colourful wee Jocks.

Nice pink flowers.

Russ has gone for ‘Warhammer style flags. I like it.

In true period fashion…the cavalry in the flanks go at it from the start.

The ‘Brains’ trust! From left to right we gave Keith, Stephen. Grajam, Russ and Steven tucked in behind. Goldie(the polished head) is on the other side and Rob is hidden somewhere as well!

The Swedish side of the table fared worse in the cavalry encounters.

Keith’s rebased cavalry performed exceptionally well!

In a fashion worthy of elevation to ranks of ‘Heroic’ a unit of hand gunners held off the charging Pike block for round after round of combat while both sides shot away at each other.

After disposing of the Swedish cavalry on this flank, Goldie sends his cavalry into the melee as well.

On the other flank the Coventers are hard at it with the ‘Scots’ …. Keith’s cavalry is now rolling down the Swedish line.

So that was a fun, loud game!

We will try again in 2 weeks… perhaps balancing the sides up a bit more evenly next time.

Until that report…

Terry out.