Thanks nikgaukroger. That clears it up nicely.

Place part of your cavalry in behind your foot and get some musketry to hit them on the way in. As the Royalist cavaliers hit if you hold them ( in your dreams) you can feed reserves into the melee in the flank and wear them down. If your horse run your opponant chases them while your remaining ...

I had been strugling with the same issue myself so thanks for the ideas. I had been trying with giving the higher ration shot units an extra dice in musketry and the lower an extra dice in melee but your system is better.

Thanks folks. Getting to grips with the rules. And as for picking the wrong side in the ECW... grrr!

Thanks for that I hadn't looked there. Seems a bit odd as Swedish salvo was in the drill manuals at the time of the English Civil War to my understanding. My Midlands Association Fooot are going to get a kicking against Early Swedish troops I fear. I will stick to scrapping with the local Royalists ...

Please tell me if we have this wrong>>>

To try out the rules we did this scenario Two fresh average pike and shot units from the English Civil War face eachother at 5mu.We assumed the units can't fire salvo as it is not mentioned in the army lists. Stationary Parliament unit fires at the advancing ...

The shooting table says foot with salvo capability 1 dice per 2 bases at short or long range. Other foot armed with musket 1 dice per base at short range and 1 dice per 2 bases at long. This means troops capable of salvo are actually worse at shooting than troops not so well trained ! :?: I am aware ...

The regional and city units, often refered to as Trained Bands, used the same system as the "regular" regts. In the vast majority of cases the colonel's colour was a plane flag, Lieutenant Colonel was the same colour with a saint georges cross in the top left against the pole. Subsequent companies ...

Bawawa wrote about the effect of artillery on horse and placing them on flanks. During the English Civil War arty was often place in the centre as has been commented on. Often to protect it as it was seen as a status symbol for armies and period texts often loudly talk of the number of guns taken ...