The term pike and shotte warfare has been coined to encapsulate a period when battlefield tactics changed to enable the close combat troops. The pike and shotte rules, from warlord games, are an adaptation of their massively popular black powder rules. Dec 27, 2012 in fact, i sorta have been waiting for the designer to bring out his pike and shotte set baroque impetus for ages. If i have misinterpreted what i have seen then i will in due course be corrected. Pike and shotte wargaming rules for the english civil war. It is a beautiful book in its own right with hundreds of colour photo of. Our growing 10mm armies easily filled a medium table as the catholic spanish force clashed with the german protestant army. The rule books intention is to inspire a collector to play gentlemanly games with their collections of soldiers with friends where the emphasis. These rules make it a very bad proposition for cavalry to charge a pike block. That means a fun multiplayer game, and the chance to hang out with friends for a. Reading the rules a unit of pike is minimum less is a small unit 12 figs with a minimum frontage of 80mm. These were written based on a fusion between my medieval skirmish rules and french and indian war rules. The emphasis is not on individual miniatures, their arms and armor or the head count.
Weapon type short range medium range long range melee factor rifled muskets 25 cms 60 cms 120cms muskets 10 cms 30 cms 70 cms dragoon musket bows 10cms 20cms 45cms carabin 10cms 25cms 60cms rifled pistols 10cms 25cms 50cms pistols 4 cms 8 cms 20 cms 2. Aug 12, 2012 pike and shotte is a table top game for 6mm to 25mm miniatures. Ive been reading, and rereading, a section or two every day since. Things about the book i dont like as much is the explanation of formations in the beginning. For those not familiar, this is the backdated black powder variant covering wargaming from 15001700. Each foot regiment would consist of a standard size pike block and two standard size musket wings and history had already provided the breakdown of the battalias and their commanders. Outriders are similar to the harquibusiers of the 30 years war and demigryphs would be the age of sigmar equivalent of the heavily armoured knights of the imperial general wallensteins lifeguards. The rule book s intention is to inspire a collector to play gentlemanly games with their collections of soldiers with friends where the.
The rule books intention is to inspire a collector to play gentlemanly games. A unit of shotte is a minimum of 8 models with a minimum frontage of 80mm. As with all my skirmish sets they are optimised to work with company or platoon sized forces. Meanwhile, royalists and parliamentarians fought for control of the nation in the english civil war. It focuses on warfare in europe from the italian wars in the 15th century up through the thirty years war, english civil wars and the wars of loius the xiv in the 17th century.
Its here the long awaited rulebook covering the italian wars, tudor wars, thirty years war, english. The roundheads were more numerous but half of their infantry were untested so would have to take a morale test each time they received any. All heavy goods were moved by sea and river wherever possible, carts being suitable for light loads. Pike and shotte useful items for game play college of kings. The current interpretation of unit formations in the rules as they stand are just wrong in my opinion. These continue reading cavalry versus pike blocks rule changes for pike and shotte. Aug 20, 2012 earlier this year warlord games published the pike and shotte rule book a modified version of black powder to cover the 16th and 17th centuries. I was quite impressed with the hail ceaser rules i picked up recently and you could see the obvious pedigree of the rules and who had created them. A unit of horse is a minimum of 6 models with a minimum frontage of 75mm. You also get the free miniature based on the ensign of the kings guard on the front cover. It concerns historical research, wargaming rule mechanisms and miniatures wargaming the three late seventeenth century campaigns fought by william of orange from 1672 to 1698. Units shooting from a building except guns only get 1 dice per face.
Italian wars hedgehog rule for pike and shotte college. Pike and shotte first battle aar and post battle conclusions about the rules peter and graham, like myself, had not played pike and shotte rules before wednesday and only i have read them. Im still a little on the fence about this but feel free to use them as one formation. This means that the rules follow black powder in being simple, fast, but also massively flavourful. The first edition of the rules was released in 2007 and the second edition in june 2009. Cavalry versus pike blocks rule changes for pike and shotte.
So once the armies are assembled and the terrain is constructed it is time to get down to gaming. Pike and shotte is a table top game for 6mm to 25mm miniatures. I found the rules quite well laid out and quite easy to navigate and on the whole they look quite straight forward. It focuses on warfare in europe from the italian wars in the 15th century up through the thirty years war, english civil. P41 obstacles pike blocks crossing become disordered on a roll of 6. Pike and shot skirmish campaign allows you to match any two armies from 1494 to 1698 in a struggle for dominance. I recently got a copy of the pike and shotte rules by warlord. During a campaign the decisive battles can be fought with any tabletop rule set. Purchase a rule book and get a box of choice for free.
Thats actually not too bad and much more flexible than a first glance at peoples. It is a beautiful book in its own right with hundreds of color photo of the most exquisitely painted model soldiers taken from the worlds foremost collections. The rule books intention is to inspire a collector to play gentlemanly games with their collections of. Uonlyuday to day loads of food, forage and barrels of powder could more. In this scenario part of the swedish army is sent to chase down the rear guard of the catholic army. Sep 06, 2016 bob laid out the blood on the danube scenario from the pike and shotte rule book for a thirty years war game using the rules. The format of the inner pages will be a familiar one to those who already own our hail caesar and black powder rulebooks. It is a beautiful book in its own right with hundreds of colour photo of the most exquisitely painted model soldiers taken from the world s foremost collections.
I was using my own ecw collection and to make the units look more realistic i had to double up the infantry which reduced them to two regiments per side. So, although ill happily play any period or genre of game, my passion is for table top games in the pike and shotte era. Hardback rulebook you also get the free miniature based on the ensign of the kings guard on the front cover. Nov 28, 2014 pike and shotte wargaming rules by warlord games is the third rulebook publication. The first game was a small ecw game with only two pike, five musket and three cavalry a side. Another excellent set of rules from the people at warlord games. Some people dont like the fact that pike blocks and units of shot are separate units. The whole, including the terminology used throughout is most definitely early to mid 17th century, with the majority of the first half of the rules eye candy being from this period, possibly because warlord games do a pike and shotte range, but as the figures are drawn from a variety of the wargaming worlds great and worthy, a variety of. Earlier this year warlord games published the pike and shotte rule book a modified version of black powder to cover the 16th and 17th centuries. Pike and shotte ecw the royalist army was under the command of lord hopton and sir william waller commanded the forces of parliament at this game based on the battle of cheriton. First of all, although the rules state that a pike block should be at least three ranks deep i havent seen anything in the rules so far where number of ranks affects game play. Pike and shotte wargaming rules by warlord games is the third rulebook publication. I am looking at doing my 16th century armies for these rules, which i just downloaded from wargame vault. The finest plastic, resin and metal 28mm historical miniatures.
I played the roundheads while rob tookm command of the royalists. Pike and shotte by steve morgan goodreads share book. The roads of britain and europe in the 17th century were. Warlord games pike and shotte rulebook the combat company. The original intention was for them to be a supplement for black powder, much in the same was as the last argument of kings, but they grew too large to be a simple supplement and so became as set of rules in their own right.
The item youve selected was not added to your cart. Shotte is warlord games third rulebook publication. It is a beautiful book in its own right with hundreds of colour photo of the most exquisitely painted model soldiers taken from the worlds foremost collections. In the pike and shotte rules, if cavalry charge a pike block that is not either disordered or already in combat, they will loose all charge bonuses and the pike unit will get double the number of attack dice. Confusingly these larger regiments are also occasionally called units in the book. This lack of movement even extends to when a pike block looses a battle and. Oct 16, 2016 after one more game ill lend the rule book to peter and graham for them to read. In this short blog post i will list the tools that continue reading pike and shotte useful items for game play.
We had both played a couple of games of pike and shotte and a game of black powder at historicon back in july, and had enjoyed the rules, so we were keen to try them out with our own toys. Im intending on using them for 15mm figures but i have a few questions about basing. Warlord games pike and shotte rulebook war and peace games. I use the pike and shotte rules for my italian wars games and there are a few useful items that make the game go easier. A site concerning miniature wargaming and armies using williamite warfare. A couple of weeks ago i picked up a copy of pike and shotte at the derby show. Ueasily, and more reliably, be carried on the backs of men. So i decided the best way to proceed was to give peter and graham a side and let them go at it. This was our first crack at the pike and shotte rules.
Shotte digital rule books delivered instantly to your email account. Battle of fleurus aar a few weeks ago we played the battle of fleurus at the club. Pike and shotte hedgehog rule my main issue with the way pike and shotte handles shot units in a hedgehog with pike blocks is that the resulting hedgehog is considered immobile. They dont have any renaissance stuff so will not be buying their own copies anytime soon. You can also potentially add outriders and demigryph knights. Buy pike and shotte wargaming rules for the english civil war battles with model soldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries rulebook main rule book by. The rulebook itself is a mixture of history and rules, with some tongueincheek thrown in for good measure. Id recommend buying the warlord games pike and shotte rule book. May 05, 2015 after watching a documentary on napoleons russian campaign i got a spark of interest for napoleonics, so looked into black powder.