Scottish Armies for ECW

Knowing that there was no way to complete the tale of the English Civil War, or War of the Three Kingdoms, without including the Scottish, I had set the task to create a force that could be used as purely Covenant, or mixed  or as a Montrose force (as a Scots/Irish internal) for use as tabletop troops in action in the north of England, Marston Moor is not possible without the inclusion of Scots.

So here are some shots of the recently (last week) completed Scots forces.

Montrose (foreground left) and Irish (background right)

Montrose

Montrose again, all the bases are in the tan teddy bar fur setup

For some reason (likely operator error) the Irish did not come out in focus.

I then laid out the Covenantor forces that I had already completed last month.

Now the whole Scottish foot can appear at one time.

all 8 Scots Pike & Shot formations - Covenant to the right foreground

Covenant are in the yellow grass teddy bear fur

There may be more battles using the yellow fur, yet I have plans to replace it as they brown looks better

The Covenant forces include chanters and pipers as musicians

So I also did up some single shots of the regiments (for potential use in computer game setups) and the Irish stood still long enough to be captured on the camera.

Irish Pike & Shotte unit

Irish Pike & Shotte unit

Now I have the basics to handle the whole of the War of the Three Kingdoms period, 1642-1660.




The aim is to generate eight more horse troops of border horse, and the three kingdoms will be all set.

Beyond that are general plans for a French 'conjectural' invasion force which would have come from Lorraine in France.