Welcome back...very happy to see you are still out there!

The difficulty with gaming this period is that eyewitness accounts of the battles are thin on the ground -especially the ECW- and the various formations are difficult to replicate on the battlefield. Also, rules rarely include weather or the accumulated gunsmoke obscuring the view.

A nice non-ECW look at this box. Thanks for sharinf

I enjoyed hearing your thoughts on this release. Initially I was very excited by this release, but not so much now. I would want to do 30YW as well, so much more variety. The big box is just under $300 to buy in Australia, out of my league. I look forward to seeing what you can do with them.

Couldn’t you for the curassier unit make it a unit of 12 4 per base and replace one with the banner?

Thinking dutch army with Scottish orvenglish units attached? Wanted spanish but I'm not were I'd get the tercio figures

Something to tie the wars you are not interest in, with the ones you are. The English Civil War is really the "Wars of Three Kingdoms", England, Scotland and Ireland (Wales does not get a mention) and commanders in that War like Prince Rupert, Ralph Hopton, Alexander Leslie, Thomas Fairfax, William Waller, others and many of the soldiers learned their trades in the Thirty Years War. Liek the Thirty Years Wars, you get to mix politics and religion (The Bishops War) So, the Battles you fight are training the troops and commanders for that later war Good luck!

The Napoleonic cavalry has the same issue. My solution is to put six on a 60x30mm base, and prime them in black. The black fills in the detail and the close order makes them less visible. In any event, it's impossible to notice the difference on the tabletop. My solution to the lack of cuirassier will probably to use Steele Fist, although to fair the cuirassier heyday was at the beginning of the TYW. As the war went on soldiers armor tended to get lighter. Veteran professional soldiers would often dicard excess armor and equipment over time. When you spent 99.9% of your time marching the small benifit of armor against gunpowder weapons would seem like a luxury. In addition, cuirassiers were expensive to hire and cash strapped governments prefered cheaper alternatives.

😅Great review thank you. As someone with several 15mm metal 30YW armies, of Peter Pig, SteelFist and various other. I am interested in the rules, but fear how fragile these figures are 😊especially the pikes. I live in Australia, so all minis are expensive, especially postage. I rely on fellow gamers visiting UK to give them my orders to save on postage though.

I just can't get over the minis clipping into each other plus how they insist on ten man rows. Guess I'll have to wait for 3d printing.

have you played any games yet? how well does it play?

What tablesize is large enough for this scale? I have a 120*130cm table but it feels a bit small for warhammer and such systems.