Grymauch's Solo Wargaming Blog

Braddock Down has been chosen to test the Pike and Shotte rules for the first time. It is a fairly simple battle to play albeit historically...

I will break the battlefield down into 3 for ease of following the flow of the game: From the Royalist perspective; Left Flank, Centre, Righ...

This is a battle I have intended to play ever since my days with ECW re-enactment societies in the 1970's. In those days it was 25mm Hin...

This is the next scenario in the "English Civil War Campaign Scenarios - The 1643 Campaign for the South-West" book. It is more of...

  Turn 7 The battlefield remains blanketed by mist leading to some startling results. On the left the Forlorn Hope has rallied and as it mov...

It was my intention to wrap up this AAR in one post, but a combination of available time to play it through and it being rather more involve...

The Battle of Chewton Mendip is the second battle in my project playing historical encounters from the Campaign Scenarios book - 'The 16...

Turns 17 - 19 With Royalist cavalry in the vicinity, the Parliamentarian foot regiments form pike stands. In the foreground, Bennet...

Turns 9 - 12 It is the start of turn 9 when the Parliamentarian foot regiments must retire from the field. Circumstances though are bey...

Turns 1 - 4 The preliminary turns saw the Royalist foot regiments negotiating the crop fields and hedgerows. Another turn was taken u...

This scenario is taken from English Civil War Campaign Scenarios - The 1643 Campaign for the South-West. This battle was a rearguard ac...