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...

The recent heatwave brought my wargaming to a crawl! Painting figures was reduced to 30 minutes at most per day and the gaming of Sanlucar i...

This will almost certainly be the last blog post before my house move. If all goes according to plan, in a little over 4 weeks I will have a...

 More units for Edgehill roll off the production line! For Parliament, Brooke's Purplecoat regiment. Part of Thomas Ballard's brigad...

 A quick update on the Edgehill project. The Lord General's orangecoat regiment of Grand Division 1 and Grand Division 2 have been compl...

Since my last blog post I have completed 100 French infantry for Bussaco and now back to figures for Edgehill. Continued -

  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...

I finally received my repaired lens back today for the camera. That damned Covid has a lot to answer for! Tomorrow I will start the ACW camp...

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...

For the final posting this side of Christmas I present the last of the Parliamentarian cavalry for Glastonbury together with a regiment of ...

A quick update on the progress of the ECW project. The first two regiments of Parliamentarian cavalry have been completed. As I mentioned o...

Fresh back from my break and it is time to review where I am at with painting the forces involved in the ECW Battle of Glastonbury. B...