I absolutely could do that - tbh didn't really think of it!

Great to hear matey, thank you for the comment.

I understand the justification, for sure. Thank you kindly for taking the time to write this brilliant game up for us all. If you wanted me to run another battle report, what would you like to see to demonstrate the system effectively? Dreadnoughts? Vehicles? more Psychic Powers?

Ahh that's really great to hear chum - Pikeman's Lament is a lovely game and I enjoy the Rampant system. For now iI'm exploring other game systems but my little pike and shot figures are here to stay.

Thanks man, that's really nice of you to say. I'm trying to muster the enthusiasm for another game or two of this but I'm not all that inspired by Chaos or Undead at the moment!

Hello matey! I basically read off the statistics from the "Battle at the Farm" scenario from the back of the Rogue Trader rulebook - hence the T3, 4+ save for Marines! For the weapons I used the stats offered in the Renegade Scout rulebook initially, then swapped to entirely using the RT weapon stats in the second game.

Oh awesome! For some reason I didn’t think the two were compatible but actually having taken a look at the rogue trader book all the stats are pretty much transferable. Did you use points at all though? Or was the balancing all just more to do with intuition/ estimating?

@@Mosaic117 are use one list in one game and the other list and another - I don’t think you should look at this like a tournament balanced game, just a very rough indication for an entertaining social/narrative game

@@williamayerst8810 okay yeah that does make more sense. I suppose in solo gaming especially its not nearly as important to have rigidly balanced forces!

Hello there, sorry for the delay in reply - yes, these are technically skirmish rules with individual figures at a smaller scale so the units are in theory separate. There are no combined units in this ruleset I'm afraid - it's a compromise I was willing to make for the sake of the rest of the rules being so good!

To be honest, you probably wouldn’t get many pike blocks operating alone in a real life battle at this level.

@@sirrathersplendid4825 I agree

Sorry for the delay in reply! I'm using 10mm figures here so Epic at 12-15mm is totally fine. I use wound counters rather than figure removal and as you can see, it works fine for me. If I were doing this again I would probably base up my pike and shot units on a single large base though...

@@williamswargames thanks! Yes, I use dice for wound tracking as well. I have the designer’s Dragon Rampant and Men Who Would Be Kings.

I think Epic scale is 13.5mm to eye-level, and 15mm to top-of-head (in other words, 15mm = 6 feet approx).

Sorry for the late reply - yes it's very cool - It's a freebie on MyMiniFactory I think :)

@@williamswargames I'll have a look now

I haven't had much luck with the commander rules, you'd have to play something like 8 battles before they get a single chance to advance! That said, it's totally OK just to use their rules for flavour. I often forget in the game with challenges, duels, special rules, etc. but that's my mistake.

These are upscaled marines by JimmytheZimms and 10mm orcs by Jazzmantis :)

I haven’t thought about that normally I use a D3 and a D10

Thank you so much for your kind words! These are battles scale miniature buildings

Thank you! Still waiting on my dark ages figures :/

@@williamswargames i know how you feel! Still trying to finish my Barons War armies so i can start but it will take more time...

Thank you! I really think it’s a perfect balance between looking epic while still retaining some character in the figures!

Thank you 👍 I think Pikeman’s lament is a fantastic game - I only wish it dealt with combined units and some rank and flank stuff though!

They are upscaled epic 3-D prints to 15mm - jimmyzimms and jazzmantis have them on cults3d - hope that helps!

Thank you so much! I’m still waiting for my miniature to be delivered though!!

Thank you so much! They are scaled up epic figures, and it works really well for 15mm!!

Thanks very much! This is my first time playing Pikeman’s lament for a couple of months, so I was definitely rusty!

Thank you so much your wonderful videos on the hundred years war and my own interest in the war of the roses isn’t helping staying focused though!!

Sixth, edition, was much more elegant, but in my opinion way, less flavourful - I think maybe because so much of it was flashed out and so little left your imagination?

That's really nice of you to say, thank you. I enjoy PL too!

That's a really nice thing to say, chum - thank you very much.

I'm glad you enjoyed it - hopefully my Dark Ages games will be just as fun :)

That’s very kind of you, thank you! I still can’t decide whether to go with dark ages or high medieval!

@@williamswargames Both Great periods!

Great to hear! I'm not a huge fan of how the names/etc. are made generic but I guess for copywrite reasons that's inevitable - but if you use the mechanics and mentally reassert the original names then it all works out in the end. Please let me know if I can help at all.

@@williamswargames where's your orks from?

Oops, just seen the answer below, which profile did you use for marines?

@@thebigandyt I used 'Enforcers' with Armour (3) and Plasma Rifles. I did accidentally use weapon profiles from RT and stat profiles from RS, and I was using the RT force dispositions which meant it was a bit unbalanced - the follow up game to this (also on the channel) is a bit of a better run through of the rules even if it ends up one-sided!

Thank you very much for the kind words :)

Irregular Miniatures - lovely company

Thank you so much, more to come!

Also at 7:34 shouldnt you of rolled the die to see if it was a success to stand the fallen skelly?

Very happy to do so - would you like another battle report?

@@williamswargames Yes, definitely!

I believe they act simply as a ZOC and ablative armour for their parent unit