Marston Moor 2010

Well the 2 day game has come and gone with a

historicaly accurate Allied success.

Cromwell was even carted off injured and appeared

later in the game, although not as good as he was before. Unhistorically Rupert was skewered by one of Leslie's Scots lancers while leading a do or die charge in an atempt to stave off the collapse of his cavalry wing.

We used Very Civile Actions by The Perfect Captain a free set of rules that some of us have played before. VCA is probably best described as a large skirmish set as you do everything by sub units. A sleeve of shot, pike stand or cavalry unit carries out an action then your opponent does the same until all the troops have gone,

each also has an Officer card that can affect the troops abilities. However with 41 Infantry regt, 36 Cavalry regt, 8 Dragoon regt and 13 guns, that would be 178 actions.

To speed things up we had a regimental rule

that was used at SESWC and had all the players moving  2-3 infantry or cav regts at a time.

Only the players had officer traits.

VCA casualties work by using odds to get results and a roll of 1 can mean a Humiliation result which affects the unit from that time on.

Needless to say the amount of 1's rolled produced

hoots of laughter throught the weekend and

1 cavalry unit ended up with 3 of them.

Serves the player right for calling them Lifeguard when they were supposed to be Cavaliers.

Approx 2,500 miniatures on a 20x6 table with 12 players and 1 umpire.

All in all a Fantastic weekend and a great game.