"This War Without an Enemy” - English Civil War Battlefield Rules & County-Based Campaign System

The English Civil War when gamed at County level gives great opportunities for gaming this fascinating period. You have the problem of controlling areas for your cause, denying them to your enemy and yet always at the whim of the King or Parliament in providing the great central field armies with resources. The great National events of the great battles or the support of the Scots or the arrival of the great central field armies as they maraud through your county makes for a most unpredictable game.

The novel battlefield rules emphasise the limitations of command and allow the games to flow fast and furious such that they are often over in a couple of hours or the time they would have been fought in reality.

Scope: Included are a set of battlefield figure rules for fighting battles up to 6,000- 8,000 men with a full colour Campaign system to fight the war. Thus your battles will have a context of when and why they were fought. There is also a system for fighting one-off battles.

Contents: 56  page Gamebook, 2 x A4 Unit Counters, 1 x A4 Game Counters, A4 sheet of Fate cards Campaign Calendar, 2 x A4 Off-Table Charts, There is a two-page Playsheet (one for the Campaign System one for the Battlefield) and 2 A3 or 4 A4 map of  Worcestershire.

SCALES & BASING

• Ground Scale: 1” = 10 yards/metres. All combat and movement are by handspan or 6” rules. So a battle is approx. half a mile by a third of a mile
• Time Scale: 1 Turn = 10-15 minutes
• Table Size: 6 x 4 ft. up to 8 x 6 ft.
• Figure/Base ratio: Figures per base according to pocket. We use Pendraken’s 10 mm figures with 12 pike, 8 shot, 4 cavalry or 1 gun and 2-4 crew per base. 1 Base = 50 foot or 25 horse. Ratio is approx. 1:6 to 1:10.