tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44023085833222994592024-03-12T20:37:09.073-07:00Faithful English BloodConcerning my "house rules" for early ECW tabletop battles in England.Bluebear Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05171345165563779232noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4402308583322299459.post-62434888341412092032014-11-06T01:02:00.002-08:002014-11-06T01:02:12.517-08:00I like uncertainty in my table top wargaming, therefor it should be no surprise that I will incorporate a number of "fog of war" aspects into "Faithful English Blood" . . . particularly since there are a great many ECW encounters where the stronger force was severely whipped by an apparently weaker foe.<br />
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One of the ways in which I hope to achieve this is by using a "card driven" device. Generals and Brigadiers will mostly have two or three "action cards" in the deck and when such a card is drawn then that officer will be able to act with the forces under his command (as long as they are within his command radius).<br />
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As I see it, using action cards will sort of be like watching a movie where the scene jumps around among various sub-plots. When I was fighting the battles of "<a href="http://alpianwars.blogspot.ca/">The Alpian War</a>" I really enjoyed the use of "action cards" and not knowing what would happen next.<br />
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<b>-- Jeff</b></div>
Bluebear Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05171345165563779232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4402308583322299459.post-51533759570141852962013-08-24T20:05:00.000-07:002013-09-18T07:50:38.778-07:00Source of Name for my RulesI'm not completely happy with any of the rule sets for the ECW that I've read . . . so I think that I am going to write my own.<br />
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And at least I've decided upon a name for my own version of ECW miniature rules .
. . and I've taken a clue from Larry Brom's <b>"The Sword and the Flame"</b>
Colonial rules by plucking a phrase from a famous English author.<br />
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However the phrase did not come from the English Civil War. In fact it
was written before ECW had even occurred . . . that's right, as a man of the Theatre, I pulled
something from Shakespeare.<br />
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Almost everything title I liked for the ECW has already been used. The
best that I came up with was <b>"King vs Cromwell"</b> but that really didn't
do it for me. Then I recalled a bit of a speech in Act III, scene iii
of Shakespeare's <b>"Richard II"</b>:<br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>“But ere the crown he looks for live in peace,</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ten thousand bloody crowns of mothers' sons</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Shall ill become the flower of England's face;</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Change the complexion of her maid-pale peace</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>To scarlet indignation , and be-dew</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Her pastures' grass with faithful English blood.”</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">This seemed to me to be a fair
assessment of the situation during the ECW (even though it referred to
1399) . . . so I picked the last three words for the title of my ECW
rules:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>"Faithful English Blood"</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Now all I have to do is write the rules, eh?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>-- Jeff</b></span></div>
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