The English Civil War TW

[cegorach]

Great info Ranika ! It will really make the Irish Confederates more interesting to play !

Thanks as usual

[cegorach]

I have selected more than 15 commanders for the time being. I am searching for more.

[Taffy_is_a_Taff]

I'm sure I read somewhere that some Welsh units went to fight in the English Civil War with longbows (very strange i know). Could be a fun unit.

I hope you put plenty of Cornish names going on the Royalist side (seeing as the Cornish provided huge numbers of men). I also hope that you'll have non-Covenant Scots (I suppose they'll be on the Royalist side) and English/Scottish settler units from Ireland.

[cegorach]

[QUOTE=Taffy_is_a_Taff]I'm sure I read somewhere that some Welsh units went to fight in the English Civil War with longbows (very strange i know). Could be a fun unit.

>>>>>>>>>> I am interested in adding more variety so please give me more info about them - were they Welsh for sure ?

Don't worry about the names

[streety]

Hi Cegorach,

I think this is a great mod idea
From just reading the above, I've a few comments:
Time Periods - Rather than 1642 to 1850, running the mod from 1500 to 1750 would better cover all the interesting civil wars, anglo-scottish, anglo-irish and jacobite rebellion issues. In the 16th century, as well as better known battles against the Scots like Flodden (1513), the Tudors also faced the Prayer Book Rebellion (1549) in Devon and Cornwall (to which Edward VI sent some landsknechts as well as regular troops, to quell, in series of small but interesting battles), and Kett's rebellion in Norwhich (1549). Then, although since the middle ages English kings had claimed Ireland, it increasingly becomes a near-constant issue after 1541, when Henry VIII claims himself King of Ireland, and Elizabeth I faced the Nine Year's War there (1594-1603) when Ireland rebelled against her attempt to impose religious uniformity. Then just prior to the Civil War, there was the 1st and 2nd Bishops' Wars (1638-1640), and King Charles I's troubled financing of which was partly what lead to the ultimately violent, protracted breakdown with Parliament. Following the the 1st and 2nd Civil Wars, you then have the Monmouth Rebellion (1685) and the Glorious Revolution (1688-1690, ending at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland in 1690). Then of course the two Jacobite Rebellions in 1715-16 and 1745-46, the Battle of Culloden (1746) being the last land battle on British soil.

Units - I understand that during the 1642-1651 Civil Wars only the Royalists employed mercenaries in any significant numbers. Yes, there were Royalist Scots, most notably lead by the Earl of Montrose. The leader of the main Cornish-Devon Royalist army in the Southwest of England was Hopton, unfortunately not a very Cornish sounding name. His Roundhead counterpart was Waller. However, there is so much historical paperwork on the Civil War that you have a wealth of actual real names of individual unit leaders to use.

Graphics - As you know, I'm working on a generic musketeer for P&M, which will lend itself admirably to this mod, as would the generic pikeman and cavalryman I've been working on also.

I'd be happy to help with any map and timeline queries for this new mod idea if I can.
Cheers

[streety]

Oh, forgot to add:

So that would give you three grand periods of civil or intra-British Isles wars:

1) Tudor 1485-1603
2) Stuart 1604-1688
3) Union 1688-1745 ("Union", for want of a better name).

Otherwise, within the context of the game, if you just stick to the main English Civil War of 1642-51, it would go on for a very unrealistic time-frame of 1642-1850, that you suggest (though I realise that such would be purely a work-around solution). Anyway, if/when you develop a fuller mod, you at least already have the units and much else to construct these 3 periods from your existing P&M game.

Here's a thought, though: could you change the year-per-move system, so that each move represents just a month? That would give you a fabulous time- frame over which to fight just the main 1642-51 civil war period.