I had a few pre-easter days off so managed to paint another Swiss pike block (and almost finished a second) in between watching far too much Trailer Park Boys, I even got another test game of this in:
I decided to roughly link it to my last game, the plan being to play a very loose narrative campaign as I paint more units. In the last game the Swiss frankly mullered the Burgundians so this time I decided to put some slightly larger forces on the table to play a game where a hastily deployed Burgundian force have been tasked with slowing the Swiss advance to allow the main army to properly prepare to meet them. To that end a battlefield was prepared:
A field of battle, somewhere over the Burgundian border.
The basic idea was for the Burgundians to deploy on/ near the hill in the top of the picture, the Swiss would deploy opposite and must have more units over half strength than the opposition on the hill by the end of turn 5.
Burgundians prepare to receive the Swiss (all minis are 10mm Pendraken).
Swiss pike form a strong center ( in the rules Swiss pike can 'double up' to create massive units).
The final unit of pike march along the road on the right.
Which goes badly for the Burgundians.
Looks superb - the way the units are laid out is very effective.
ReplyDeleteLove some of the terrain effects too, and the rules seem to be working out very well.
Ta muchly, I'm rather chuffed with the look of the little fellas on the table. The rules are really nice, very simple and feel right, I'm planning on working out some fantasy mods for them. Well worth checking out.
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