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Fighting the battles of the English Civil War with model soldiers
Written By:
Charles Singleton
Cover & Interior Artwork;
Peter Dennis
Miniatures Painters:
Bruno Allanson, Andres Amian Fernandez, Paul Cubbin,
Glyn Hargreaves, Kevin Howroyd,John Hutchinson,
Darren Linington, Alan Mander, Andrew Saunders, Charles Singleton
Photography:
Anna Bereza, Mark Owen, Charles Singleton,
Dariusz Wyrozebski
Layout:
Anna Bereza
Editing:
Duncan Macfarlane & Paul Sawyer
Pike & Shottc Rules By:
Steve Moi^an
Play-testers and Thanks:
Andy Bartlett, Glyn Hargreaves, Stephen Brohan, Nick Dorrell, Chris
Modd, Andy Miles, Duncan Rogers, Andrew Saunders, Kexdn and
Charlie Howroyd, \V\
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Rogers, Jim Cotgrave, The VVyre Forest
Wargames Club, Wightwick Wargames Group, The Little Contemptible
Wai^ames Club, especially Chris Johnson, Les Duncan, Steve White,
Richard Mills and Steve Gibson.
The gentlemen of the Litde Contemptible Wargames Club not
only playtested various scenarios and wrote battle reports, they also
very generously allowed me to use and adapt their siege and combined
units rules. Veiy' special thanks to the wargamers and members of the
Fairfax Battalia.
Special thanks to John Stallard.
ISBN: 978-1-911281-22-1
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GQNTBI^TS
I
ntroduction
T
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'E
nglish
'C
ivil
WvR
3
4
The King’s Oxford Army........................................39
The Early Oxford Army..........................................40
The Late Oxford Army........................................... 42
The Royalist Cornish Army, 1643 ..................... 44
The Royalist Western Army, 1644..................... 47
The Royalist Northern Army................................49
Welsh Marshes and the Anglo-Irish
Royalist Arms'.............................................................. 51
T
he
B
attle of
B
rentford
T
he
B
attle of
C
halgrove
F
ield
T
he
B
attle of
A
dvalton
M
oor
T
he
B
attleof
T
orrington
T
he
S
cottish
A
rmy
L
ists
107
110
Whai's in a name?........................................................ 4
The Early Reign of Charles I.................................. 4
The Bishops’ Wars and the Short Parliament. .5
Rebellion in Ireland......................................................
6
The First Cieil War......................................................
6
The Second Civil War.................................................
6
Another War with Scotland......................................
6
C
ivil
T
imeline
Scots Covenanter....................................................... 110
The Scots Royalist .\rmy of
the Marquis of Montrose...................................... 114
The Scots Royalist Army of 1644..................... 114
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The Scots Royalist Army of 1645..................... 117
The'Traditional'Montrose Army.................... 119
B
attle
R
eport for
the
B
attle
OF I
nverlooiy
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T
he
A
rmies ofthe
C
ivil
W
ar
The Infantry..................................................................11
The Cavalry'.................................................................. 11
Artillery........................................................................... 12
T
he
T
actics ofthe
C
ivil
T
he
B
attle of
L
ansdown
H
ill
B
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R
eport for
the
B
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N
antwich
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T
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B
attleof
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13
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T
he
B
attleof
B
enburb
T
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B
attle of
W
inwick
P
ass
T
he
I
rish
A
rmy
L
ists
129
132
13
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A Militarv' Revolution............................................... 13
The Dutch System................................................... 14
The Swedish System..................................................16
Chnl War Tactics.........................................................17
R
oyalist
C
ommanders
P
arliamentarian
C
ommanders
E
nglish
C
ivil
Wui C
olours
T
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E
arly
W^
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A
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L
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P
arliamentarian
A
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L
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6
The Army under Lord Essex................................. 76
The .•\rmies of Sir William Waller...................... 80
Fairfax's Northern Army......................................... 83
The Army of the Eastern Association............... 85
Clubmen Armv............................................................
88
The New Model Army.............................................91
T
he
B
attle
OF C
heriton
8
rite Irish Catholic Confederate............................136
Anglo-Scots Army....................................................140
Ormond Irish Royalist Alliance Army.............142
S
pecial
'P
eriod
' R
ules
'L
ate
M
isery of
W
ar
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C
ampaign
R
ules
23
28
30
94
97
99
104
144
Scots Covenanter /\rmy of the Bishops’ Wars . .30
Bishops' Wars Scots Royalest.................................. 32
English Prr Civil War Army...................................34
T
he
R
oyalist
A
rmy
L
ists
T
he
B
attleof
O
mskirk
THE B
attle
R
eport of the
S
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B
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OF N
ewbury
148
15
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R
ules
T
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torming of
C
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T
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B
attleof
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istanstow
The Early Royalist Army.........................................36
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13.04.1640 - Charles I summons the Short Parliament^ ending eleven years of Personal Rule.
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hether you be a follower of the King or a supporter of the Parliament and the good old cause, I bid you
welcome to this English Civil War supplement for Pike & Shotte.
The English Civil War started for me some 36 years ago when I was dragged kicking and screaming to
watch the Scaled Knot at Hoghton Tower near Preston in Lancashire. The famous kids’ TV programme
Blue Peter
was there filming and one of the show’s presenters Peter Purv'es marched up to me, roughed my hair and prompdy
placed his helmet on my head - I was hooked!
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Moving forward to 1986,1 was introduced to Sealed Knot founder and Ci\nl War historian, Brigadier Peter Young,
who when told I was a budding historian of the period said to me ‘My boy you'll go far’. The rest is history.
So what’s the attraction of the era?
Well, for my friends and I who play it a lot, it’s the colour and spectacle of the uniforms and flags that tiek the boxes.
The combined infantry formations of pike and shot look fantastic, and the cavalry look spectacular. The period was
also one of great innovation in military’ affairs. Armies became increasingly professional, and infantry fire power was
coming into its own. This was an era of ‘novelty and change’, politics and religion were so closely connected to be
almost one and the same thing and the foundations of the modern Britain we live in today were being laid during
the conflict.
But for me, possibly the greatest draw to the period is that it happened just down the road from were we live.
I grew up in I..ancashire, and from an early age was shown the many locations of the events that happened during
the conflict all over the county. About fifteen years ago, I moved into the West Midlands, and now live on the
Staflbrdshire-Shropshire border. I can count the sites of two major battles, about thirty minor actions, coundess
skirmishes, and at least five sieges all within an hour’s drive of home. I’ve not even started to count the ruins,
earthworks and artillery forts that after nearly four hundred years still lay dotted in the landscape of the region.
This book is divided into several sections. I’ve arranged the army lists of the various factions of the conflict into
groups. That way, you will find all your chosen side’s forces within easy reach. Whilst working on the army lists. I’ve
tried to introduce not only some of the latest thinking and interpretation of the armies, but some fun elements too.
I’m sorry if your favourite army isn’t what you think it should be. Please feel free to challenge my ideas and alter
them to suit your own tastes. By deviating from the standard army list layout, I have attempted to give each army as
many options and as much variation as possible.
For the scenarios. I’ve put them into chronological groups, and added some game reports to give a bit of flavour.
Where possible I have tried to go for actions that may not have been covered before, while in the case of Cheriion,
recent research suggests a different location for the battle. Whilst putting the scenarios together, I tried to keep to the
‘toolkit’ ethos of the original rules.
The scenarios are in many ways oudines which will enable you to tailor them to your own bespoke objectives.
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This same ethos goes for the selection of useful rules and campaign. Though I’ve not added them to the army lists,
I have specified which armies can use which additional rules. As a suggestion, if playing a friendly, maybe discuss
first whether the special rules will be used, and if you’re in a compedtion, let the umpire decided if they can be used.
I would like to dedicate this book to my dearest wife Helen. Helen has put up with various writing projects, toy
soldiers and tramping around wet muddyfields in England and Walesfor about ten years now, and long may it
continue. Thanks must also go to the various play-testers and those that gave sage advice on the rules and the more
obscure armies. Very special thanks to Steve White, Andy Miles, Chris Johnson, and Stephen Brohan.
Thanks to Steve Morgan, Rick Priestley and John Stallard of Warlord Gamesfor letting me badger them
on this project
05.05.1640 - The Kmg decides to dissolve die Short Parliament when MPs refise to grant him subsidiesfor war against Scotland

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