For your Perusal: Rules for the French Wars of Religion in 2mm

Having embarked on the period of the French Wars of Religion in 2mm I was faced with the pleasant job of coming up with some rules to reflect my research and understanding.

Swiss Pike.

I began by establishing some principles that I felt were important.  These were:

1. Victory and defeat was often determined by the cohesion of the units and armies, not by the number of casualties.

2.  Quality matters.

3. Manoeuvring was difficult.

4. No casualty removal.

I quickly realised that what I was writing was quite generic in itself.  So, I decided that the way to add the period specific flavour for the French Wars of Religion was through the use of the Commander Cards and Action/Event Cards.  The latter being drawn from and based on events that actually occurred during conflicts in the 16th century.

With the help of the Rejects, we played some games to test what had been produced to hone the rules further.  See the following reports:

The Battle of Le Truc

The Battle of Le Truc (Ray's report)

The Battle of Coutras

The Battle of Coutras (Ray's report)

French Wars of Religion Play Test

Whilst far from perfect, and under constant review, improvement and development, please find the rules here, or go the tab above, and feel free to have a look and comment on them.

A Painted Mixed Bag

First up some FPW Prussian. These were an opportunity buy at a bring and buy at a show earlier this year. I have rebased them to match my collection I must confess that the only paint I applied was the spike to the helmets and the odd cross belt, plus adding standards.

Not sure who the figure manufacturer.

Left to right: IR11 2nd Silesian Grenadiers; IR36 Magdeburg Fusiliers

Left to right: IR85; IR84

However, for good or ill the FPW Bavarian unit is entirely my brushwork. This is the 11th Regiment.

Now for a change from metal to MDF. 6mm Commission Figurines in fact.  These have been painted to represent Carlstadter Grenzers during the French Revolutionary Wars. One stand to represent a regiment, the smaller ones as skirmishing detachments. They are in white coats as they are representing regularized grenzers.

Hopefully they will all soon see action on the tabletop.