Continuing with the theme of the English Civil War, here is my first unit of Parliamentarian Horse.
A couple of Revell Thirty Years War Swedish Cavalry sets furnished enough heavily armoured horsemen for two units of Roundhead cavalry using the One Hour Wargames rules.
These cavalry units are brutally simple to use - big men with big swords on big horses!
To highlight their Parliamentarian allegiance I gave them distinctive orange crossbelts.
After a long summer break from the blog (unable to fit in the model hobby amongst all the holiday breaks and social engagements) I'm getting back in the writing saddle.
These are my first two units of Roundhead infantry - they're Revell Imperial infantry, repainted to resemble Parliamentary footsloggers. Each unit comprises of eight musketeers, two to four pikemen and attached officers. The first unit was painted yellow, the second a bright blue with white crossbelts, in order to differentiate them from Rupert's Royalist bluecoats. I'm quite happy with the blue unit's paper flag which was printed, bent to shape and spattered with dark brown.
Using the One Hour Wargames rules, these two make up half of the Roundhead infantry. The rules make infantry quite dynamic - their pikes deter cavalry, but their muskets can run out of ammunition with a bad roll of the dice! It's certainly an interesting way of portraying unpredictable expenditures of musket fire in the heat of battle. It'll be fascinating to find out how these Roundheads fare on the tabletop. For God and Parliament!
