My first battle with Pike & Shotte c.1690... (LOADS OF PICS)

[chema1986]

Hello Gentlemen! this Easter I went to my hometown, Cartagena, and played with my father a small battle between French and Spaniards in Catalonia c.1691 We used Pike & Shotte rules for this. Although I own a copy of "Beneath the Lily Banners" , we decided to use "Pike & Shotte" this time because it is easier to learn ( we have only played Flames of war , Impetus and Pike & Shotte now) and I already have a slow growing 30 years war Spanish/Imperial army and a very very small Swedish one, so I previously had bought the mentioned ruleset
My conclusion with this rules is positive, we played two times and spent two hours each.
I find it rather quick and flexible, funny and easy to learn. Moreover, on the book there is a section which deals with this period so there werent many problems adapting the existing lists to my Spaniards. So I am looking forward to finish painting my armies and play again!
We played with 3 foot regiments, one cavalry, and 1 field gun per side. And later added a converged grenadier and dragoons just to test them on the table and see how the rules treat them.
(the french cavalry is represented by a 30 years war Swedish cavalry regt. I could not paint them in time )

I hope you like the photographs of the battle!
Cheers !

Chema







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[PaulMc]

Hi Chema,

This is fantastic, great to see the collection all out on the table. I hope you enjoyed your game.

[chema1986]

Thank you Yes, we had a great fun , but need to increase the proportion of cavalry in order to be more historically accurate and give more emotion to the game