tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2114836754558272502024-02-27T17:44:57.155-06:00Project Auldearn 1645Wargaming the War of the Three Kingdoms in Scotland.Rank Bajinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04930794862480779307noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211483675455827250.post-27735186110840736812020-06-18T20:46:00.001-05:002020-06-18T20:46:13.344-05:00Wargaming Montrose's Campaign (1644-45)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Montrose’s 1644-45 campaign offers plenty of scope for the war-gamer. The numbers in the forces involved are fairly small, the battles varied in scope and the possibilities for linking into a campaign straightforward. The following text offers suggestions into one our approach but these should be considered as an introductory guide. </div>
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Each battle had a distinct character which offer challenges to both players. Often the games may appear uneven in terms of troop numbers, quality or type. The arrival (or lack thereof) of reinforcements will allow scope for uncertainty. Terrain additionally, often played a critical role in the outcome. All of these elements give some very challenging scenarios that can be played separately as one-off battles using historical orders-of-battle.</div>
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Playing a Linked Campaign</h3>
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Another way to make the battles more challenging is to play a linked campaign. Here the Royalist player is forced to manage his limited forces and work with sporadic and often unreliable reinforcements. The Covenanter player, on the other hand, gets to fight many of the battles with fresh forces, but their quality will be controlled by what the government had available within the theatre.</div>
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Our recommendation is to play with the historical order of battles, scaled at approximately 1:10. This gives robust unit sizes in accordance with the unit sizes outlined in the Pike and Shotte ruleset.</div>
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Montrose’s Army on Campaign</h3>
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In a linked campaign the Royalist player will start with Montrose’s army at Tippermuir (we recommend using the OOBs published by Stuart Reid in the Osprey Campaign book entitled “Auldearn 1645 – The Marquis of Montrose’s Scottish Campaign”). As the campaign progresses, the Royalists will suffer losses through battlefield casualties, sickness and desertion, but will also gain recruits following victories. To account for attrition within the royalist army, we suggest the following mechanisms should be employed.</div>
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<b> Royalist Irish Brigade Attrition</b></div>
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Montrose’s Irish Brigade was extremely resilient and was repeatedly re-marshalled to fight again, despite suffering all manner of hardship and deprivation. At the end of every battle any Irish unit broken and destroyed is reduced in size for the next game. For example, a large Irish foot regiment broken in combat becomes a standard Irish foot regiment in the next game. However, rather than field progressively smaller units, the royalist player can reconstitute his battalions by amalgamating regiments (a standard and a small unit can be combined to form a large unit). That said, the lack of reinforcements combined with casualties (through action, disease and desertion) meant that the Irish could never be fully replaced and as such the number of available units should decrease as the campaign progresses (three pre-January 1645, two pre-September 1645 and one for Philiphaugh).</div>
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For every other non-Irish unit in the Royalist army role a D6 at the end of each game and consult the following table. If a unit was broken in the previous battle, then role a D3 and consult the table.</div>
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At the end of every battle the Royalist army can attempt to recruit new units for the next battle. This represents the tireless efforts of Montrose, MacColla and other prominent Royalist nobles to gather Royalist sympathizers and their armed forces to the King’s cause. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">The royalist player must first roll a D3 to determine how many units are recruited. </span>For each unit recruited, roll a D6 and consult the following table to determine what type of unit is recruited:-</div>
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After Inverlochy: +2 to dice roll<br />
After Auldearn: no modifier<br />
After Alford: -2 to dice roll<br />
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Note: Scots and Gordon infantry were conventional armed with pike and shot. To determine the make up of conventional infantry regiments roll twice on this table. The first roll will determine the size of the pike block and the second roll the size of the two shot sleeves.</div>
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The Government Armies</h3>
The Covenanters controlled the government and the established military forces as well as the regional conscription process. As such they were able to field what was effectively a new army for each battle. Covenanter armies will therefore begin each battle with a fresh new army using the published historical order of battle. </div>
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We recommend using the OOBs published by Stuart Reid in the Osprey Campaign book entitled “Auldearn 1645 – The Marquis of Montrose’s Scottish Campaign”.<br />
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The Battles</h3>
There were 8 major battles fought during the short campaign: <br />
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<li>Tippermuir (September 1st 1644) </li>
<li>Justice Mills (September 13th 1644) </li>
<li>Fyvie (October 28th 1644) </li>
<li>Inverlochy (February 2nd 1645) </li>
<li>Auldearn (May 9th 1645) </li>
<li>Alford (July 2nd 1645) </li>
<li>Kilsyth (August 15th 1645) </li>
<li>Philiphaugh (September 13th 1645) </li>
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<b> The Battle of Tippermuir</b></div>
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The armies are as described in the historical OOB for Tippermuir. For the linked campaign, this is the only battle where the Royalist will use the historical OOB. In all future battles in the campaign the royalist players forces will depend on the outcome of the previous battles and the successful of recruitment.</div>
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OBJECTIVE: The objective of the covenanters is to hold the Royalists for 8 game turns and have 50% of the Covenanter army unbroken by the end of the turn eight. The royalist objective is to clear the field and completely rout/destroy the Covenanter army.<br />
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With a third and much larger Covenanter army, led by Argyll, pursuing the Royalists following the sack of Aberdeen, Montrose retreated northwest towards the highlands. However, they are caught while encamped at Fyvie Castle in Aberdeenshire. With MacColla heading west to recruit amongst the clans, and the Gordon’s failing to turn out in strength, the Royalist army is weakened and in a desperate situation. In this battle the Royalists use the enclosed, hilly terrain and woods at the back of Fyvie Castle as a strong defensive position, and are able to hold off the Covenanters for three days of skirmishing before retreating during the night into the Highlands. <br />
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OBJECTIVE: The objective of the Covenanters is to rout/destroy the Royalist army over the course of the three skirmishes and to capture Montrose and the Royal Standard. The objective of the Royalist army is to hold on and minimize losses until the end of the 3 skirmishes.<br />
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To represent the fatigue and lack of sleep after their grueling night march, all units in the Royalist army begin the battle with one casualty marker (This could also be -1 to Stamina).<br />
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The exhausted, sleepless Royalist army was in no mood for hanging about after the night march, and were eager to close on Argyll and finish the fight quickly. To represent this all units in the royalist army have the Eager special rule for this battle only.<br />
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Whether Argyll got some bad press or not after this battle, most accounts agree that he was very quick to leave the field to his waiting galley. To reflect this, once 50% of the army is either destroyed or in flight, Argyll will leave the field. The remaining Covenanter Brigade commander will take command of the army if it is still able to fight on.<br />
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Hurry’s surprise attack on the scattered Royalist forces is often thought of as Montrose’s greatest victory. The initial weight of superior government forces must be held off by MacColla, until Montrose is capable of concentrating his forces and launching a telling counter-attack.<br />
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OBJECTIVE: The objective for the Covenanters is to brush the defenders aside and capture Auldearn village before Montrose can bring his reserves to bear. The Royalists win if they hold Auldearn.<br />
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Following up on his victory over Hurry’s Covenanter army at Auldearn, Montrose marched south to meet a fifth Covenanter army led by Baillie. Montrose chooses his ground high on a ridge on the south side of the river Don near Alford. Baillie crosses the river at a ford and deploys for a fight. This battle can be fought as a simple pitched battle, with the Royalists deployed first, waiting while the Covenanters deploy.<br />
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At the beginning of the second and third turns the Covenanter player can deploy a further 25% of the units, such that the army is fully deployed by turn 3. These units are deployed on the same 1/3 table edge as the original deployment, but can take a full turn as normal. This represents the arrival of the remainder of Baillie’s army.<br />
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To represent Baillie’s inability to control the advancing Covenanter army, the 50% of units deployed initially have the Eager special rule.<br />
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At Philiphaugh, Montrose was outmaneuvered, outnumbered and outclassed by David Leslie and had little chance of achieving a victory. The Royalists should deploy first and infantry can begin the game in cover, behind a hedgerow and/or field boundary ditch. <br />
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OBJECTIVES: The Royalist objective is to hold without breaking for eight turns, at the end of which Montrose is considered to have repeated the disappearing act similar to that used at Fyvie. The Covenanter objective is to break the Royalist army before turn eight. If the Royalist army breaks it is considered effectively destroyed.<br />
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If Montrose makes it all the way through the campaign and is successful at Philiphaugh, the campaign can be continued as a series of 'what-if' ladder scenarios based on the known forces at this time and the recruitment and attrition principles established during the previous year of campaigning.</div>
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The Royalist Army at Auldearn included large numbers of highlanders and one of the most striking ways to show highland origins for a unit is to cover it in tartan. It is also the quickest route to insanity (or a new hobby) for the wargamer painting multiple large units. Reproducing tartan on a 28mm model is not that easy, and if we are honest the model is probably too small to see the details of any but the most bold tartan anyway.<br />
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In this period most tartans were created from a rather muted colour palette of dyes and if we add the muck and grime of hard campaigning (a belted plaid was clothing, bedroll and rain shelter all in one garment), the best way to paint tartan is probably as various grubby shades of dark grey and brown with only the most subtle hints of a tartan weave.<br />
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But that's not much fun and doesn't give scottish highlanders the look we want so we need some simple techniques for painting tartan on inch-high models in such a way that they look good on the tabletop.</div>
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There are several ways to paint tartan on 28mm models, all of them quite similar in many respects. After painting tartan on almost 170 models for this project alone, I have landed on my own favorite method. Roy also paints his plaids in a similar way, but prefers a slightly different approach to me. Both will be covered in this 'how-to'.<br />
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<b>Basic principles of tartan and the terminology</b></h3>
Before starting its worth saying a few words about tartans, how they are made and the basic jargon associated with tartan weaving that is used later in this article.<br />
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Firstly the term <b>tartan</b> is used in UK english to describe this peculiarly scottish checked weave. In the US the word <b>plaid</b> is typically used for tartan. In the UK, the word plaid is used to describe a blanket or sheet of cloth, typically of woven tartan. The most from of kilt worn in seventeenth century Scotland was the belted plaid, simply a sheet of woven cloth belted at the waist, with the lower part below the waist hanging as a kilt, and the upper part above the belt gathered to the back and slung forward over the left shoulder.<br />
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C. Tartan with block check and overstripe</div>
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Before I cover the three methods for tartan a few words on the base garment colour upon which the tartan will be applied.<br />
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The base colour is the typically the dominant colour on a plaid. This can be a wide variety of colours, but for simplicity and efficiency I focus on 4 or 5 base colours which I now a use almost exclusively. I use very dark colours as this helps to highlight the lighter overstripe. If the base is too bright, it becomes difficult to see the overstrike. And trust me the overstrike lightens the model enormously so please resist the temptation to give you base colour bright highlights.</div>
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Base colour = Coat d'arms Negro, with a dash of Foundry Terracotta 37B. A similar effect is achieved starting with GW Scorched Brown/GW Rhinox Hide with a tiny dash of black. This is the same base colour I use for Brown tartans so I base the brown plaids at the same time.<br />
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Base colour = Coat d'arms Negro, with a tiny dash of Foundry Terracotta 37B. A similar effect is achieved starting with GW Scorched Brown/GW Rhinox Hide with a tiny dash of black. This is the same base colour I use for red tartans so I base the red plaids at the same time.<br />
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When I began painting plaids I would include some lighter base colours, with dark overstrike, but after painting a few models this way I dropped light colour tartans because I much preferred the look of darker tartans. If you like the lighter tartans the method is essentially the same. Here is an example of light tartan with dark overstrike. </div>
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The grey is a lighter grey based around GW Fortress Grey, but the black overstripe darkens it up a lot. The light brown plaid is GW Bestial Brown/GW Vermin Brown with a black overstrike. Now onto the tricky bits...<br />
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This is my favorite way to paint tartan. A simple overstripe gives a great tabletop approximation of an intricate tartan, the absence of the underlying block check is not a problem as the block check is often so subtle that it is difficult to spot on the tabletop anyway.. <br />
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I use two main overstripe colours for all my dark-based tartans; white and yellow. I occasionally use a red overstripe on a green base, but red does not stand out as much as the yellow or white. For my light-base tartans I use exclusively black overstriping and as I mentioned earlier, I rarely use a light-base tartan as it is just not as striking as the dark-base.<br />
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Once you have determined your colour, choose whether you want a single or double overstrike. I prefer double overstripe as it gives the tartan a more intricate look, and is not much extra work.<br />
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Mix you chosen overs trip colour 50/50 with the Tartan Base colour (Mid Layer) and water it down until it is almost translucent. Use a fine brush (0 or finer) and form you brush tip into a very fine point, and if this is not possible, flatten the tip into a narrow flat edge (I use a flat edge rather than a point).<br />
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Make sure the brush is not overloaded with paint by unloading on a tissue or scrap of paper (I do this as I form the tip of the brush into a <b>flat edge</b> rather than a point).<br />
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Now the really tricky part - where to paint the stripes. It is obviously easiest to paint tartan overstripes on flat hanging cloth, so I always start there if I can. Locate an edge of the cloth, for example the hem of the kilt, or the base of a shoulder-draped belted plaid.<br />
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Move a mm or two in from the edge and using the narrow edge of your flattened brush paint two narrow parallel lines about 1mm apart. Try and do this in slow careful single stokes which end at folds. Pick up on the opposite side of the fold and continue parallel to the cloth edge until you meet the beginning of your overstripe or the overstripe would disappear under a fold or some other overlying item, such as a belt strap, bag or other equipment.<br />
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Move 4-5mm in from this first pair of overstrikes and paint a second parallel set in the same way. Trying as far as possible to maintain a steady 4-5 mm separation by eyeballing (there is no need to stop and measure).<br />
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B. Tartan with block check only</h3>
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TRUE INFORMER AND OTHER SOURCES</h3>
Short Introduction here<br />
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POSSIBLE IRISH BRIGADE COLORS</h3>
0011.0<br />
Field: White, possibly spattered with red, yellow canton with red saltire<br />
First Motto: "AEQUUM EST PRO CHRISTO MORI" (It is just to die for Christ)<br />
Second Motto "VIVAT CAROLUS REX" (Long Live King Charles)<br />
First Device: Red Crucifix<br />
Second Device: Below Canton an imperial crown and inscription CR.<br />
Notes:<br />
<i>Moran's source describes field as 'alibis respersis guts sanguineis' (white sprinkled with drops of blood). </i><i>Blount says color was 'taken from the Irish Rebels in the late warres'</i><br />
References:<br />
<i>True Informer (28 Sept to 5 Oct 1644), p355</i><br />
<i>Blount (1655), sig N2a</i><br />
<i>Ryder, p43</i><br />
<i>Reid, Scots(3), opp p35</i><br />
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0285.0<br />
Field: Green (Vert), yellow canton with red saltire<br />
First Motto: "PATIOR UT VINCAM" (I suffer that I may conquer)<br />
Second Motto "VIVAT CAROLUS REX" (Long Live King Charles)<br />
First Device: Christ carrying his cross on his shoulder<br />
Second Device: Below Canton an imperial crown and inscription CR.<br />
Notes:<br />
References:<br />
<i>True Informer (28 Sept to 5 Oct 1644), p355</i><br />
<i>Blount (1655), sig N2a</i><br />
<i>Moran 17</i><br />
<i>Ryder, p43</i><br />
<i>Reid, Scots(3), opp p35</i><br />
<i>Hayes McCoy (a), 123</i><br />
<i>Hayes McCoy (b), p51</i><br />
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0112.0<br />
Field: Yellow, yellow canton with red saltire<br />
First Motto: "EXURGAT DEUS DISSIPENTUR INIMICI" (Let God arise and let his enemies be scattered)<br />
Second Motto "VIVAT CAROLUS REX" (Long Live King Charles)<br />
First Device: Resurrection of Christ<br />
Second Device: Below Canton an imperial crown and inscription CR.<br />
Notes:<br />
<i>Reid lists first motto as "EXURGAT DEUS, DISSIPEXTUR INIMICI".</i><br />
References:<br />
<i>True Informer (28 Sept to 5 Oct 1644), p355</i><br />
<i>Blount (1655), sig N2a</i><br />
<i>Ryder, p43</i><br />
<i>Reid, Scots(3), opp p35</i><br />
<i>Hayes McCoy (a), 123</i><br />
<i>Hayes McCoy (b), p51</i><br />
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0178.0<br />
Field: Red (gules), yellow canton with red saltire<br />
First Motto: "IN NOMINE JESUS OMNE GENU FLECTITUR" (At the name of Jesus every knee shall bend)<br />
Second Motto "VIVAT CAROLUS REX" (Long Live King Charles)<br />
First Device: Inscribed with the name of "Jesus" ("IHS") with a cross<br />
Second Device: Below Canton an imperial crown and inscription CR.<br />
Notes:<br />
<i>Blount (1655) claims it was captured from the Irish Rebels. First motto is from Phil. 2:10. Moran's source notes that Parliament had forbidden genuflection.</i><br />
References:<br />
<i>True Informer (28 Sept to 5 Oct 1644), p356</i><br />
<i>Blount (1655), sig N2a</i><br />
<i>Ryder, p43</i><br />
<i>Reid, Scots(3), opp p35</i><br />
<i>Hayes McCoy (a), 123</i><br />
<i>Hayes McCoy (b), p51</i><br />
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0063.0<br />
Field: Blue (azure), yellow canton with red saltire<br />
First Motto: "CUNCTAS HAERESES INTEREMISTI" (Thou has overcome all heresies)<br />
Second Motto "VIVAT CAROLUS REX" (Long Live King Charles)<br />
First Device: Virgin Mary holding infant Jesus in her arms, and with her heals trampling on a serpent's head.<br />
Second Device: Below Canton an imperial crown and inscription CR.<br />
Notes:<br />
<i>Not in Blount (1655). </i><i>Reid lists first motto as "CUNCTAS HARESES INTEREMIST".</i><br />
References:<br />
<i>True Informer (28 Sept to 5 Oct 1644), p356</i><br />
<i>Ryder, p43</i><br />
<i>Reid, Scots(3), opp p35</i><br />
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0417.0<br />
Field: Blue (Azure), yellow canton with red saltire<br />
First Motto: "SOLVIT VINCULA DEUS" (God loosens the chains)<br />
Second Motto "VIVAT CAROLUS REX" (Long Live King Charles)<br />
First Device: An angel in white holding a sword with a gold handle cutting the chains of St Peter.<br />
Second Device: Below Canton an imperial crown and inscription CR.<br />
Notes:<br />
References:<br />
<i>True Informer (28 Sept to 5 Oct 1644), p355</i><br />
<i>Blount (1655), sig N2a</i><br />
<i>Ryder, p43</i><br />
<i>Reid, Scots(3), opp p35</i><br />
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0322.0<br />
Field: Red (gules), yellow canton with red saltire<br />
First Motto: "PRO DEO REGE ET PATINA [PATRIA]" (For God and the King and the Chalice [country])<br />
Second Motto "VIVAT CAROLUS REX" (Long Live King Charles)<br />
First Device: Two arms issue from clouds. One supports a chalice with a host over it, the other holds a sword to defend them.<br />
Second Device: Below Canton an imperial crown and inscription CR.<br />
Notes:<br />
<i>Reid lists first motto as "PRO DEO, REGE AND PATINA".</i><br />
References:<br />
<i>True Informer (28 Sept to 5 Oct 1644), p356</i><br />
<i>Blount (1655), sig N2a</i><br />
<i>Ryder, p44</i><br />
<i>Moran 17</i><br />
<i>Reid, Scots(3), opp p35</i><br />
<i>Hayes McCoy (a), 123</i><br />
<i>Hayes McCoy (b), p51</i><br />
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0297.0<br />
Field: Unknown (perhaps painted clouds), yellow canton with red saltire<br />
First Motto: "POST NUBILA PHOEBUS" (After the clouds comes the sun [Phoebus])<br />
Second Motto "VIVAT CAROLUS REX" (Long Live King Charles)<br />
First Device: Black roundel surrounded by a cloud out of which the sun is appearing.<br />
Second Device: Below Canton an imperial crown and inscription CR.<br />
Notes:<br />
References:<br />
<i>True Informer (28 Sept to 5 Oct 1644), p356</i><br />
<i>Blount (1655), sig N2a</i><br />
<i>Ryder, p44</i><br />
<i>Moran 17</i><br />
<i>Reid, Scots(3), opp p35</i><br />
<i>Hayes McCoy (a), 123</i><br />
<i>Hayes McCoy (b), p51</i><br />
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0459.0<br />
Field: Purple (purpure), yellow canton with red saltire<br />
First Motto: "VICTOR REDIT DE BARATHRO" (He swiftly returns victorious from the edge of hell)<br />
Second Motto "VIVAT CAROLUS REX" (Long Live King Charles)<br />
First Device: Christ delivering the Fathers out of limbo.<br />
Second Device: Below Canton an imperial crown and inscription CR.<br />
Notes:<br />
<i>Not in Blount (1655). The first motto is a line from the latin hymn "The Lamb's high banquet called to share"</i><br />
References:<br />
<i>True Informer (28 Sept to 5 Oct 1644), p356</i><br />
<i>Ryder, p44</i><br />
<i>Moran 18</i><br />
<i>Reid, Scots(3), opp p35</i><br />
<i>Hayes McCoy (a), 124</i><br />
<i>Hayes McCoy (b), p51</i><br />
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0141.0<br />
Field: Red (gules), yellow canton with red saltire<br />
First Motto: "FORTITUDO MEA DESUPER" (My strength is from above)<br />
Second Motto "VIVAT CAROLUS REX" (Long Live King Charles)<br />
First Device: To left a silver armoured arm issuing from a cloud and holding a silver lamp (or lance).<br />
Second Device: Below Canton an imperial crown and inscription CR.<br />
Notes:<br />
<i>Moran appears to suggest arm is holding a lance rather than a lamp. </i><i>Reid lists first motto as "FORTITUDO MEADE SUPER".</i><br />
References:<br />
<i>True Informer (28 Sept to 5 Oct 1644), p356</i><br />
<i>Blount (1655), sig N2a</i><br />
<i>Ryder, p44</i><br />
<i>Moran 18</i><br />
<i>Reid, Scots(3), opp p35</i><br />
<i>Hayes McCoy (a), 123</i><br />
<i>Hayes McCoy (b), p51</i><br />
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0141.0<br />
Field: White (argent), yellow canton with red saltire<br />
First Motto: "SIC PEREUNT HAERESES" (Thus heresies perish)<br />
Second Motto "VIVAT CAROLUS REX" (Long Live King Charles)<br />
First Device: An armoured man setting fire to John Calvin's book 'Institutes. The book is inscribed "Calv:Instit".<br />
Second Device: Below Canton an imperial crown and inscription CR.<br />
Notes:<br />
<i>Reid lists first motto as "SIO PEREUNT HARESES".</i><br />
References:<br />
<i>True Informer (28 Sept to 5 Oct 1644), p356</i><br />
<i>Blount (1655), sig N2a</i><br />
<i>Ryder, p44</i><br />
<i>Moran 18</i><br />
<i>Reid, Scots(3), opp p35</i><br />
<i>Hayes McCoy (a), 123</i><br />
<i>Hayes McCoy (b), p51</i><br />
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0088.0<br />
Field: Purple (purpure), yellow canton with red saltire<br />
First Motto: "DOMINUS VINDICAT POPULUM SUAM" (God will avenge his people)<br />
Second Motto "VIVAT CAROLUS REX" (Long Live King Charles)<br />
First Device: The figure of Judith holding a sword with the Holofernes severed head impaled upon it.<br />
Second Device: Below Canton an imperial crown and inscription CR.<br />
Notes:<br />
References:<br />
<i>True Informer (28 Sept to 5 Oct 1644), p356</i><br />
<i>Blount (1655), sig N2a</i><br />
<i>Ryder, p44</i><br />
<i>Moran 18</i><br />
<i>Reid, Scots(3), opp p35</i><br />
<i>Hayes McCoy (a), 124</i><br />
<i>Hayes McCoy (b), p51</i><br />
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THE IRISH CROSS CONTROVERSY</h3>
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http://samsflags.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/development-history-of-irish-flags-pt5.html</div>
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Auldearn offers a twist on the
classic encounter battle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although often
claimed as Montrose’s greatest victory, its result changed little in the course
of the campaign and was a closer run affair than most texts would lead you to
believe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we started out, many years
ago, to recreate this battle, little did we know that many of our assumptions
would be challenged, as we dug deeper into the literature around the battle and
the War of the Three Kingdoms in general.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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This article aims to describe
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The principal road through
Auldearn ran north-south through the village.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hurry had travelled along this route from Inverness but significantly
had decided to leave the road and strike off across country to allow his army
to descend on Auldearn from the open country in the west.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, as his troops approached, they
cleared their weapons of damp powder in preparation for the coming battle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“…for want of
which intelligence, if God had not prevented it beyond all expectation, all
ther throats had bein cut.” Ruthven<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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As Hurry closed in, Montrose’s
force was widely dispersed, most likely billeted in local crofts or foraging in
the surrounding area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Auldearn, only
MacCollas veteran lifeguard and Gordon of Monymores untested highland regulars
were to hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The shots from the
advancing Covenanters must have come as a shock to Montrose (who throughout his
campaign, was repeatedly caught off-guard).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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the Inverness road, but it is also possible that Montrose neglected to deploy
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“….the major; who, for all his diligence, could hardly
get two regiments drawn wpe, on of the Irishes, and on of Huntlie, when the
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Hurrys force advanced from the
west, across the broad whaleback ridge of Garlic Hill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MacColla and Monymore deployed across their
path, amongst turf walled farm encloses, fighting a delaying action to buy Montrose
precious time to muster his ill-prepared forces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The heavily outnumbered Royalists were forced
back but the government forces were unable to bring their superior numbers to
bear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The marshy areas on either side of
Garlic Hill appear to have forced the fighting into a narrow frontage and only
Hurry’s leading elements were able to engage the Royalists.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Campbell of Lawers veteran
infantry regiment engaged in a brutal firefight with MacCollas Lifeguard,
repeatedly slayed the ensigns holding aloft MacCollas yellow banner. As
the hard-pressed Royalists withdrew off Garlic Hill, Hurry held his men in
check, preventing a pursuit into Auldearn.
Hurry’s reluctance to press home the advantage suggests he realized that
he was not facing all of Montrose’s force.
By keeping the majority of his force on the hard won high-ground, Hurry
may have been uncertain of where and when Montrose would commit his reserves,
as well as the need to re-order his force prior to an assault on the
village. Hurry’s caution may reflect a
professional respect for Montrose as an adversary, and coupled with a lack of
good intelligence, led him to misjudge the Royalists somewhat desperate
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“So, efter a brave and long maintained resistance,</i> (MacColla) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is
forced a reteir to som yeards of the town, and from thence to keipe them of
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MacColla took up a defensive position
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</span>As Lawers committed his men forward, the marshy ground separating Garlic
Hill from Auldearn slowed their advance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Within the village MacColla and Monymore were reinforced by the arrival
of fresh elements of the Irish regiments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As the leading covenanter regiments prepared to advance on the village, with
Lawers again on the front line, Monymores took up position on the crest of
Castle Hill. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Covenanter advance
stalled as they negotiated the boggy ground to emerge on the steep slopes and
enclosures of Auldearn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here they
encountered a galling fire from the Irish in the village and Gordons on their
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Seizing the initiative, MacColla
counter-attacked with the Irish but soon became bogged down in the same marshy
ground that had slowed the covenanter advance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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could not advance at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After more
fierce fighting, the Irish regained a foothold amongst the turf enclosures on Garlic
Hill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lawers, forced to retire, reformed
and supported by the Loudon’s Regiment, advanced once more on the Royalists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two regiments, flanked by supporting
horse, and supported by indirect bow-fire from Seaforths Highlanders, once more
succeeded in forcing MacColla back into the village, but this time were able to
pursue the Irish into the lanes of Auldearn.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Vicious hand to hand fighting
raged in the houses and back-courts, whilst musket fire undoubtedly played
along the flanks of the engagement. Highland tradition vividly describes the
desperate struggle within the confines of the village as the two forces became
intermingled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unable to bring his
cavalry to bear, Hurry pushed forward additional infantry to support the
battle, perhaps hoping to finally break Monymores obstinate defense on Castle
Hill, and allowing his superior numbers to swamp MacColla and the Irish.
However, the terrain once again prevented Hurry to capitalize his numerical
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With the battle now grinding
towards a Covenanter victory, Hurry became fixated on the force to his front
and neglected the danger posed on his lengthy exposed flanks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps, given the fighting had gone on all
morning and into the early afternoon, Hurry believed that all Royalist forces
were now engaged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Hurry’s leading
regiment was engaged in house- to-house fighting in the village, the majority
of his force sat idle on the slopes of Garlic Hill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the meantime, Montrose had been gathering the
rest of his forces to the east of Auldearn, screened from Hurry by the hill
upon which Auldearn Auldearn was built.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rather than feed them into the confused fighting within the village,
Montrose directed his reserves to the north and south, to fall upon the flanks
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south where Aboyne’s Horse attacked the Covenanter’s right flank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Screened by the smoke of battle, Aboyne’s
troopers surprised Drummond’s Horse placed on the right by Hurry to support his
infantry. Whether through treachery, miscommunication or just incompetence,
Drummond reacted by wheeling his troop into the flank of Seaforths
Highlanders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the ensuing disorder,
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receive his charge with such a conteinuall giving of fyre, as he semed, by the
thick smok throw which he went, to asalt a terrible cloud of thunder and
lightening. “ Ruthven.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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regiments in the village disengaged and withrew back to Garlic Hill as Hurry
tried to restore order. However, Lord Gordon’s horse now emerged from behind
Castle Hill and moving at the charge, made short shrift of the flanking Covenanter
cavalry and fell upon Lawers retiring infantry.<o:p></o:p></div>
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that with a new for a fight, for he discharges with all shooting of pistols and
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With their leading regiments now
hard-pressed, the Covenanters watched in horror as Strathbogie’s fresh regiment
of foot emerged from the southern end of Auldearn, and the remains of MacColla’s
command debouched from Auldearn. Hurry tried to stem this advance with the Lord
Chancellors and Lothians Foote.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However,
these veterans of Ireland, perhaps singled out for their history of campaigning
in Ulster, died hard around their standards, there retreat cut off by the
marauding royalist cavalry to their rear.<o:p></o:p></div>
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on despite being surrounded, Hurry realized the battle was lost and , fled
southwards intending to retire on Inverness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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had actually set about one another) who offered little quarter to the fleeing
Covenanters. Seeing this danger, Hurry turned to the west, retreating across
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Hurry’s army was destroyed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His less
experienced regiments had scattered and his veterans were savaged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, the toll was high on the royalist
side with over 200 slain, including 24 officers and likely a greater number of
wounded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The following day Montrose
retired rather than pursuing Hurry, marching the remains of his army towards
the Gordon fiefdoms in the east.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Along
the way, Montrose’s men harried the lands of the local Earls who had raised the
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There are many appropriate rule
systems for the War of the Three Kingdoms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We have chosen to use Warlord’s Black Powder, as described in the “Pike
& Shotte” supplement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first
Auldearn seemed like a reasonable proposition for a wargame. However, looking
at other descriptions of tabletop refights, it became apparent that three
factors are often overlooked; the influence of terrain, the timing of action
and finally the quality of the troops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In games the table is often too open, the troop quality is skewed with
royalist supermen, and the cavalry always come to the rescue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This raises the question of how to build a
balanced game where both sides are capable of gaining something from the
conflict. In reality, the outcome of this battle was not a foregone conclusion
and for a critical period in the village, shortly after noon, the Royalists
were effectively beaten.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The terrain in this part of
Nairnshire is a series of sandy, rolling hills, which decrease in elevation
from the Grampian Plateau in the south, to the coast in the north.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The battle field is dominated by ridge of
Garlic Hill, which points east towards the heart of Auldearn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The village sits on high ground with two
prominent heights; the western most being the old motte of Erin’s castle
(Auld-Erin), the second being crowned by the kirk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 17<sup>th</sup> century town did not
extend to the south and east as far as it does today but the ground had enough
elevation to block line-of-sight for any great distance to the east, even from
the summit of Garlic Hill. Thus the topography was generally T-shaped, with
Garlic Hill forming the trunk beneath the cross-bar of the Auldearn dominated
ridge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With regards table lay-out: at its
simplest the terrain should have two large hills arranged in a T, with Garlic
Hill forming the trunk and separated from the Auldearn ridge by a narrow, boggy
valley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Auldearn village should be set
up towards the northern part of the T’s cross.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Garlic Hill was not as open in
the 17<sup>th</sup> century as it is today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Much of it was covered by small enclosures, utilized by the royalists to
mount their defense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other parts of the
hill we undeveloped with patches of thick gorse.<o:p></o:p></div>
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These days the terrain is
well-drained, yet in the 17<sup>th</sup> century, the local streams were poorly
confined and associated with broad areas of boggy marsh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two streams flowed around Garlic Hill, coming
together at the base of Castle Hill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
such, Garlic Hill was almost completely surrounded marsh ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The narrow area of boggy ground and steep
slopes of Auldearn, combined to provide MacCollas Thermopylae, is was likely a
critical factor in the covenanters being unable to maximize their strength in
numbers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As well as the marsh areas, the
streams themselves must have locally provided significant obstacles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The present day Covenanters Inn is partially
constructed from the old water mill, indicating that the stream here must have
been deep and fast enough to drive this.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Auldearn village was
characterized by multiple small enclosures (“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">yeards</i>”), so numerous fence lines should also be added.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two high points of Auldearn hill should
be crowned by the Doocoot and Kirk respectively.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the case of the former, enough open space
should be provided to allow for (Monymores) shotte units to deploy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
Multiple tracks can be modelled,
but the only known main road was the one from Inverness, which skirted around
the south of Garlic Hill, entering Auldearn from the South.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The current road from Nairn cuts through the
northern marsh area and was probably not a major artery before drainage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Outside of the village, on well-drained
ground, small copses of trees can be added but the hills were generally open
with the exception of occasional patches of gorse and local, turf-walled,
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Under Pike and Shotte, terrain
is thus classified as follows; streams, fences and turf-walled enclosures are
linear obstacles, marsh and gorse patches are rough-ground; tracks and fords
through streams/marsh are open with no movement penalties to troops deployed in
column formation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hills, buildings and
woods will all obscure line-of-sight.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Deployment<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The game begins with MacColla’s
Lifeguard and Monymores Regiment on Garlic Hill, facing the might of the
advancing Covenanter army arriving on the western board edge. Unless engaged in
melee, the royalist can retire towards Auldearn whenever they choose, using the
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fall-Back</i> rule. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
In the early stages of the
battle the Covenanters will be better placed to bring their numbers to bear on
the central section of Garlic Hill, with only low turf-dykes providing
defensive positions for the hard pressed Royalists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the battle progressed, and MacColla
retreated, the available deployment width on Garlic Hill, into Auldearn will be
reduced to a narrow frontage, such that only a single regiment can directly
assault the Village.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This reflects the
fact that onlyLawers Regiment could enter Auldearn and their support was from
the Seaforths firing arrows indirectly. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Montrose was able assemble his
scattered regiments behind Auldearn and then choose when and where he was going
to deploy them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If Hurry had cleared the
village Montrose would not have had this critical advantage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All troop deployment behind the Auldearn
ridge should be hidden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Scattered Royalist units joining
the fighting from outlying billets will be treated as reserves. Royalist
reserves arrive from the start of turn 4, in the following order at
approximately one regiment per-turn;<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
Turn 4. The Irish Regiments<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Turn 6. Aboynes Horse<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Turn 7. Gordon Horse<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Turn 8. The Strathbogie Regiment<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
However, to reflect Montrose’s
tactical counter stroke, the regiments need not be deployed until they are
ready to advance, reflecting Montrose nursing his reserves for his counter
stroke. Additionally, if the regiment is “held” for at least one turn, the
royalist player can deploy them on either flank.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
To prevent the Covenanter player
being overly prepared for their arrival, the closest two units to the flanking
reserves must take an immediate break test.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This should only occur once per flank, encouraging the royalist to
commit his reserve at a time of maximum disruption in the government
lines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Flanking units are deployed at
the start of the move and can participate in the turn.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
If the Covenanters, seize the
high-ground in Auldearn village, or clear the village itself, all Royalist
reserves must arrive on the eastern table edge and cannot move that turn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Timing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
By most accounts Auldearn lasted
all day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The distinct phases of the
battle, described above, were separated by pauses, as both sides took stock and
redressed their formations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the
majority of the day, only a small percentage of Hurry’s force was engaged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Additionally, it was only late in the day
that Montrose had assembled all his force for his counterstroke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
If Hurry had captured Auldearn,
Montrose could never have launched his surprise attack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If MacColla had held up Hurry longer on
Garlic Hill, or Montrose assembled his troops earlier, the battle may have
occurred on the hill. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
To reflect the protracted nature
of the struggle, and the hiatuses between the various episodes of the battle,
each side is allowed to call a tactical pause for one turn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During this pause, no shooting or melee is
allowed, rallying can be resolved and movement/redeployment can occur.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will encourage Hurry to push forward but
give Montrose some respite from the overwhelming odds.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Order of Battle for Auldearn<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Given the relatively small
numbers involved at Auldearn it is possible to achieve a roughly 1:10 ratio for
figures, which can work well for 28mm figures on a 6’ x 8’ table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unit size is an important parameter in Pike
& Shotte, where units are classified as tiny, small, standard or
large.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This not only reflects the
physical size (frontage and number of models) but also the fighting ability
with size modifying the basic unit stat line.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
In terms of troop quality and
unit stat line it is relatively easy to construct the forces at Auldearn from
the list included in the book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However,
as with many rule systems, Montrose’s forces are represented as Gaelic supermen,
whilst those of the government are relatively bland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
For the Royalist army, the Irish
regiments and MacColla’s Lifeguard can be used as listed in the Pike &
Shotte rule book. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here they have a
strong stat-line which makes them more than a match for any single standard
Covenanter unit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The regiments of
Strathbogie and Monymore are regular highland regiments and can be fielded as
basic Scots infantry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Monymore’s
regiment was newly raised it should be given the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Freshly Raised</i> special rule.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The Covenanter regiments were a
little more diverse in quality than the lists provided in Pike & Shotte. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hurry’s experienced regiments (Lawers,
Lothians & the Lord Chancellors) gave a good account of themselves on the
day and should be rated accordingly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Therefore, rating them as veterans, and giving them the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Valiant</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stubborn</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elite 4+</i> special
rules should give them some staying power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Conversely, Hurry additionally had some untested regiments (Seaforths,
Sutherlands and the Northern Levies) which should be given the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Freshly Raised</i> special rule. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Scottish Horse, in most rules of
for the period, commonly gets unfairly downgraded, as these were not commoner’s
mounted on ponies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither is their evidence
to distinguish the Royalist Horse from their Covenanter counterparts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At Auldearn and Kilsyth, the Royalists
benefitted from surprise and terrain whilst at Alford, in an open fight, they
performed no better or worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We suggest
that the basic Covenanter Horse stat-line be applied to both forces cavalry,
but that the Royalist Horse is given the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Marauders</i>
special rule, allowing them more tactical independence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Numeric superiority and surprise should see
the Royalist Cavalry perform well on the table. Drummond’s blunder may have
been the catalyst for the Covenanter collapse and as such this unit can be
burdened with a -1 on all motivational tests, reflecting the incompetence,
cowardice or collusion of its commander.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Brigade commanders, at a minimum,
should consist of Montrose and MacColla for the Royalists and Hurry and Mackenzie
for the Covenanters. One additional
brigade commander may be added to free Hurry and Montrose for a broader
battlefield role as general, if felt appropriate. Both Montrose and MacColla need little
introduction and should be rated 10 and 9 respectively. Hurry was an experienced mercenary soldier of
dubious loyalty but should be rated 9 as he showed unwavering loyalty to his
paymasters at Auldearn. George
Mackenzie, Earl of Seaforth, was a fair-weather supporter of the Covenant and
of uncertain loyalty. A rating of 6
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John Graham, Marquis of Montrose cuts a dramatic if doomed
figure across the pages of the history of the War of the Three Kingdoms.
Regarded by many as one of the finest generals of the war, if not the period,
for a year he ran the forces of the Scottish government ragged at the behest of
his master and King, Charles I.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
string of victories through 1644-45, across the breadth of Scotland, offers
great potential for gaming, with forces typically on the order of a few
thousand troops per side.<br />
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The National Covenant </b><br />
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The National Covenant had been signed in 1638 across
Scotland in response to Charles attempts to impose Anglican Church structures
and procedures upon the Presbyterian Scottish Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Signed by both the great and common of the
country, it was widely supported and provided the foundation upon which the
Scottish Government fought and won the “Bishop’s” Wars in 1639-40.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Civil War in England and The Solemn League and Covenant</b></div>
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With the outbreak of hostilities in England in 1643, both
King and Parliament courted the Scottish government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parliament ultimately prevailed, and under
the terms of the Solemn League and Covenant, 20,000 Scottish troops where
committed to invade northern England. As had been shown in the Bishops Wars,
the Scots, many of who had served as mercenaries during the Thirty Years War,
would prove a dangerous foe and a serious hindrance for the Royalist cause.<br />
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Montrose the Cavalier</b></div>
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Originally a signatory and supporter of the National Covenant,
Montrose had become disenfranchised from it, in the main due to political
infighting within the Presbyterian cause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Although a veneer of Protestant idealism covered the Covenanters, long
established rivalries lay beneath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
particular, Montrose was at odds with Archibald Campbell, the Earl of
Argyll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clan Campbell, and its
supporting sub-clans, was the strongest in the Western Highlands (the Earl
could personally raise 20,000 men).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Argyll, along with other major Scottish Lords had made themselves Lords
of the Articles, a position previously nominated by the King.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This change in the constitution of Scotland
had secured more power for the wealthiest landowners at the expense of the
minor Lords (like Montrose).<br />
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A Royalist Plan for Scotland</b></div>
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As the war in England progressed, and with his influence on a rapid decline in Scotland, Montrose joined Charles I in
England.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The King understood that
the presence of the Covenanter field army in England would swing the balance of power significantly
towards Parliament.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Montrose,
commissioned by the King as Captain-General, was tasked to take the war into
Scotland primarily, to re-direct the Covenanter field army and in the hope of raising Royalist troops
to take the country for the King.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Initially Montrose entered Scotland from the Southwest, and although successful
in taking Dumfries, his small force of Scots and English Royalists were soon
hastily bundled back across the border by the more numerous local Covenanter
forces.<o:p></o:p></div>
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However, the cause of the King in Scotland was not extinguished, the
flames of opposition to the Covenant smoldered on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the northeast, the Gordons, led by Marquis
of Huntly had already rebelled and stormed Aberdeen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps more significantly, in the west, the
Earl of Antrim had dispatched three regiments from Ireland, to form a core
around which the royalist western clans could rally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Led by Alasdair MacColla of Clan MacDonald,
many of the western clans had old scores to settle with their local rivals, the
Campbells. <o:p></o:p><br />
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The Royal Standard is Raised in Scotland</b></div>
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Montrose met with MacColla outside Blair in the central
Highlands, and raised the royal standard in August of 1644. Montrose’s army
began with three regiments of Irish mercenaries and locally raised Atholl highlanders,
many of whom had been “pressed” into service and were poorly armed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Montrose now displayed the bold audacity (and
perhaps, reckless bravery) that was to typify the next year, and advanced south
towards Perth.<br />
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The Battle of Tippermuir - The Defeat of Lord Elcho's Government Army</b></div>
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On September 1<sup>st</sup> 1644, at Tippermuir (now Tibbermore) a few miles outside of the city of Perth, Montrose
came up against the first of eight Covenanter Armies that would oppose him. Lord Elcho’s troops where purely local
regiments, only a few of which had limited experience from dealing with
Huntly’s rebellion earlier in the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This had made them over confident and they also under-rated their
opponents as an ill disciplined highland rabble. As a result, the Covenanter
commanders felt sure they would make short work of Montrose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed, many of the local populace came to
view the fight, thinking it would be over in minutes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They were right, but unfortunately they witnessed the
cataclysmic collapse and rout of the government army.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tippermuir was fought across open ground, where
the Covenanters expected a prolonged firefight, giving their horse time to
maneuver and roll up the flanks of the Royalists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had been a long time since Lowlander
fought Highlander, so the local troops did not know that the clans would not be
standing still.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Montrose led his troops
forward, overcoming the forlorn hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The experienced Irish regiments offered a quick but devastating series
of volleys in the Swedish style, before aggressively charging into melee (a tactic that commonly referred to as the "Highland charge"). In moments, they were
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As the government army disintegrated, they were harried back
and through Perth, which was sacked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With its fall Montrose was able to replenish his supplies, but in a
trend that characterized his campaign, many of the clansmen melted away into
the hills with their booty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With fresh government regiments already forming a new home defence army near Stirling, it was imperative that
Montrose gathered more men, to which end he moved northeast to link-up with
Huntly.<br />
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Before he could reach the lands of the Gordons, Montrose
encountered the local regiments from around Aberdeen led by Lord Balfour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On September 13<sup>th</sup>, the forces met
on the outskirts of the city at the Justice Mills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the exception of a company of McDonald
archers, most of Montrose’s Highlanders had left the army. Only a few local
companies of horse had joined, so the rump of his force remained the Irish
Brigade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Covenanters had two
recently raised regiments, the city militia and a regiment from Fife acting as
city garrison, alongside a series of local lairds and their personal mounted
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Initially, Montrose chose to negotiate, as Balfour’s
position was strong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first cordial,
the negotiations were shattered when an Irish drummer in the Royalist party was
shot out of hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Montrose now resolved
to fight the battle and storm the town. The order of “no-quarter” was to given
to the army.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On both flanks, the Irish Regiments
were held up by the skirmishing tactics of the more numerous royalist horse,
which although successful, masked their own infantry from engagement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The central Irish regiment, Laghtans, charged
uphill against the Covenanter centre, where the part-time Aberdeen militia
awaited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although the ground was against
them, the experience of the Irish prevailed and again after a short but violent
firefight they charged home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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With the collapse of the Covenanters centre, the retreat
became a rout, which flooded into the city precipitating four days of rape and
pillage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This did not endear the local
population to Montrose and with Argyll’s army fast approaching; the royalist
army retreated into the Highlands.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Support from Gordon, Marquis of Huntly, was muted. Not only
was he aware of Montrose’s retreat and the advance of Argyll, he had little
reason to like Montrose. In the Bishops Wars, Huntly had raised his standard
for the king, only to be defeated at Brig of Dee by the Covenanters led by
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Argyll’s force contained not only his own Campbell levy but
also two additional experienced foot regiments and a strong body of horse
recalled from England.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Montrose
initially had the better of them, initially leading them around the edges of
the Grampians, on a fruitless pursuit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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supplement the Irish Brigade.<br />
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On October 28<sup>th</sup>, Argyll surprised Montrose after
catching him encamped at Fyvie castle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Argyll
mounted several attacks against Montrose’s strong defensive position but the steep
and enclosed wooded terrain ultimately prevented the forces closing completely
with one another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a few more days
of desultory skirmishing and growing supply problems, Argyll disengaged,
leaving Montrose to slip away into the hills.<br />
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At this point Argyll presumed that Montrose was beaten and that
oncoming winter would devastate what remained of his force.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His troops dispersed into winter quarters and
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Montrose reunited with MacColla, who had brought recruits
from the western clans, conspired to campaign through the winter and take the
fight to the enemy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, rather than
invade the lowlands, MacColla’s desire to re-establish Macdonald hegemony in
the west prevailed, taking Montrose into the heart of the territory of the
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In December, the Royalists cut a bloody swathe through the
Campbell lands, sacking Argyll’s seat of Inverary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Earl was incensed and wanted to pursue
Montrose into the fastness of the Highlands, but the recently arrived General
Baillie decided it was better to bottle up Montrose in the mountains where the
vagaries of the climate would soon reduce his force.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With his highlanders deserting, supplies
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With Baillie’s army to the north and Argyll’s larger force
to the south, Montrose was effectively trapped in the Great Glen. Rather than
forcing the main exits of the Highlands, Montrose chose to march his army
overnight, through Glen Roy, surprising Argyll near modern day Fort William.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of all Montrose’s exploits it is perhaps this
that shows his greatness as a leader for moving a large body of troops with
great haste, across such rugged terrain in the middle of winter required great
skill and tenacity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Candlemass Day,
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Although more numerous, Argyll’s force was mainly his
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turning into a massacre as traditional scores were settled. As his men died on
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With this victory, the initiative swung to Montrose and his
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After some skirmishing in the east, Montrose’s field army
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but just as Montrose’s troops were settling in to the rape and pillage news
arrived that the government army was fast approaching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Led by Baillie, the Covenanters had advanced
from their base at Perth when they heard of Montrose’s exit from the
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With this latest victory, the government in the north was finally cowed and Montrose could advance south. Baillie moved south with the remnants of his army, but the Government and Kirk officials who had previously meddled with his decisions now effectively controlled the last Government field army. With the Covenanters held up by internal strife, Montrose bypassed Baillie, and crossed Stirling Bridge to bring the civil wars to Central Scotland for the first time.</div>
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Initially his movement was hidden by the hills to the southeast of Royalist position. However, as his force broke cover, his leading regiment, a composite “Forlorn-Hope” took it upon themselves to take the farmstead of Auchinvalley on Montrose’s immediate flank, rather than bypass it to gain the advantage of higher ground behind the Royalists. The initial encounter rapidly escalated as both sides fed troops into the battle. Unfortunately, the Covenanter attack now relied on the initiative of the regimental and company commanders, as Baillie had lost control. With echoes of Auldearn, the Covenanters were stacked up in a series of dense blocks, pinned by confining terrain and unable to make their numbers count.</div>
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Taking the cavalry wing, the Earl of Balcarres tried to swing around the Royalist flank, but was first checked and then repulsed by the Gordon cavalry. As the Covenanters routed, the royalist cavalry swung into the now exposed flank of the engaged government infantry. With his front line collapsing, Baillie tried to bring up his only remaining reserves, the newly raised levies of Fife, who decided that flight was the better part of valor. Baillie tried to rally his broken force but to no avail. Although his regulars held together as they retreated, the Fife regiments disintegrated, and were slaughtered by the pursuing Royalists.</div>
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With Baillie licking his wounds in Stirling, and the remaining government forces demoralized and scattered in the lowlands, Glasgow was at the mercy of Montrose’s. Trying to gain favor with the locals, Montrose prevented his highlanders from looting the town, but these troops, now disgruntled at being denied the spoils of war, soon started to drift away. After some local plundering, MacColla took his highlanders and some Irish troops north, intent on continuing his personal feud against Clan Campbell. The Gordons also decided to return north, showing little interest in marching further from their homelands, after Montrose, with a clumsy lack of diplomacy, showed greater favor to his new found friends from the lowlands and borders.</div>
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Left with the rump of his Irish regiments, and a few loyal cavalry, Montrose decided to march south to join the King in England. Although initially gaining some additional troops in the form of the rapacious but fickle Border moss troopers, news reached Montrose that David Leslie had left the main Scottish field army to march north and meet him.</div>
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The Royalists immediately changed plans, and veered west intent in retiring into the vastness of the Clydesdale Hills. However, perhaps in arrogance, Montrose failed to anticipate the speed aggression of Leslie’s advance and was surprised on the 13th of September 1645 at Philiphaugh, near Selkirk. In shock, the border moss-troopers fled, taking most of the Irish with them. Montrose could only rally a small force of 200 infantry to fight over 3000 approaching Covenanters, comprised predominantly of horse and mounted infantry.</div>
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What loyal cavalry that Montrose could muster advanced to try and gain time but Leslies superior force soon dispersed them. The remains of Montrose’s force now found themselves with their backs to the River Ettrick, pinned within the walls and enclosures around Philiphaugh farm. Initially, this prevented the weight of the government force being brought to bear, but unlike Auldearn and Kilsyth, there was no one to rescue the resolute defenders. Slowly whittled down by fire, and outflanked, the remaining Irish surrendered. In revenge for atrocities committed on the battlefield and in stormed towns, there was little sympathy for these catholic Irish mercenaries, who were summarily executed.</div>
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Montrose himself escaped, and fleeing north to link up with the Gordons, he raised some of his highland allies on the way. However, having previously upset the Gordons, the defeated Montrose now had few friends and little credibility in the north. The Gordons would no longer be driven by Montrose’s strategy, instead preferring to pursue more limited local goals.</div>
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History credits Montrose as one of the premier generals of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. He led the Government by the nose for one glorious year, winning a remarkable string of victories but failed to deliver a knockout blow, and ultimately failed to save the beleaguered King. In many battles, he was surprised but with even limited resources he could react to organize a fighting retreat, as at Fyvie, or steal a victory, as at Auldearn. He clearly had the ability to motivate his forces to feats of great endurance, as at Inverlochy, but could also alienate his allies, as his loss of Gordon support whilst on the cusp of victory showed.</div>
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Montrose ultimately failed to solidly unite the Royalist cause behind him and his fragile alliances failed to attract the more cautious Royalist sympathizers. Perhaps with a larger, more unified force, he could have won Scotland for the King but his reliance on Catholic Irish and highland troops meant he would never develop popular support amongst the majority of Presbyterian Scots.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Wargaming the Campaign</span></b></div>
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Montrose’s 1644-45 campaign offers plenty of scope for the war-gamer. The numbers in the forces involved are fairly small, the battles varied in scope and the possibilities for linking into a campaign straightforward. The following text offers suggestions into one our approach but these should be considered as an introductory guide.</div>
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Each battle had a distinct character which offer challenges to both players. Often the games may appear uneven in terms of troop numbers, quality or type. The arrival (or lack thereof) of reinforcements will allow scope for uncertainty. Terrain additionally, often played a critical role in the outcome. All of these elements give some very challenging scenarios that can be played separately as one-off battles using historical orders-of-battle.</div>
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<b>Playing a Linked Campaign</b><br />
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Another way to make the battles more challenging is to play a linked campaign. Here the Royalist player is forced to manage his limited forces and work with sporadic and often unreliable reinforcements. The Covenanter player, on the other hand, gets to fight many of the battles with fresh forces, but their quality will be controlled by what the government had available within the theatre.</div>
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Our recommendation is to play with the historical order of battles, scaled at approximately 1:10. This gives robust unit sizes in accordance with the unit sizes outlined in the Pike and Shotte ruleset.</div>
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In a linked campaign the Royalist player will start with Montrose’s army at Tippermuir (we recommend using the OOBs published by Stuart Reid in the Osprey Campaign book entitled “Auldearn 1645 – The Marquis of Montrose’s Scottish Campaign”). </div>
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As the campaign progresses, the Royalists will suffer losses through battlefield casualties, sickness and desertion, but will also gain recruits following victories. To account for attrition within the royalist army, we suggest the following mechanisms should be employed.</div>
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<b>Royalist Irish Brigade Attrition on Campaign</b><br />
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Montrose’s Irish Brigade was extremely resilient and was repeatedly re-marshalled to fight again, despite suffering all manner of hardship and deprivation. At the end of every battle any Irish unit broken and destroyed is reduced in size for the next game. For example, a large Irish foot regiment broken in combat becomes a standard Irish foot regiment in the next game. However, rather than field progressively smaller units, the royalist player can reconstitute his battalions by amalgamating regiments (a standard and a small unit can be combined to form a large unit). That said, the lack of reinforcements combined with casualties (through action, disease and desertion) meant that the Irish could never be fully replaced and as such the number of available units should decrease as the campaign progresses (three pre-January 1645, two pre-September 1645 and one for Philiphaugh).</div>
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<b> Scots Royalist Attrition on Campaign</b><br />
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For every other non-Irish unit in the Royalist army role a D6 at the end of each game and consult the following table. If a unit was broken in the previous battle, then role a D3 and consult the table.<br />
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[1-2] The unit deserts en masse, the unit disbands and all men return to their homes. The unit will not be present at the next battle.<br />
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[3-4] The unit suffers from desertion and attrition and is much reduced in size by the next battle. The unit is reduced in size for the next battle. If the unit was already Tiny in the previous battle, then the unit is considered destroyed and will not be present in the next battle.<br />
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[5-6] The unit is resilient and will take the field in the next battle at the same size.<br />
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At the end of every battle the Royalist army can attempt to recruit new units for the next battle. This represents the tireless efforts of Montrose, MacColla and other prominent Royalist nobles to gather Royalist sympathizers and their armed forces to the King’s cause.</div>
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The royalist player must first roll a D3 to determine how many units are recruited.<br />
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After Tippermuir: -3 to dice roll<br />
After Justice Mills: -2 to dice roll<br />
After Fyvie: -3 to dice roll<br />
After Inverlochy: +2 to dice roll<br />
After Auldearn: No modifier<br />
After Alford: -2 to dice roll<br />
After Kilsyth: +2 to dice roll (re-roll modified result of 6 or more)<br />
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Note: Scots and Gordon infantry were conventional armed with pike and shot. To determine the make up of conventional infantry regiments roll twice on this table. The first roll will determine the size of the pike block and the second roll the size of the two shot sleeves.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Government Armies</span></b><br />
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The Covenanters controlled the government and the established military forces as well as the regional conscription process. As such they were able to field what was effectively a new army for each battle. Covenanter armies will therefore begin each battle with a fresh new army using the published historical order of battle. We recommend using the OOBs published by Stuart Reid in the Osprey Campaign book entitled “Auldearn 1645 – The Marquis of Montrose’s Scottish Campaign”.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Battles</span></b><br />
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There were 8 major battles fought during the short campaign:<br />
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<li>Tippermuir (September 1st 1644)</li>
<li>Justice Mills (September 13th 1644)</li>
<li>Fyvie (October 28th 1644)</li>
<li>Inverlochy (February 2nd 1645)</li>
<li>Auldearn (May 9th 1645)</li>
<li>Alford (July 2nd 1645)</li>
<li>Kilsyth (August 15th 1645)</li>
<li>Philiphaugh (September 13th 1645)</li>
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What follows are some suggestions on how to refight these battles with some of the historical flavor.<br />
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<b>The Battle of Tippermuir</b><br />
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On the morning of September 1st, as the royalists approached Perth, they found the Government army, led by Lord Elcho, deployed and waiting. Tippermuir can be re-fought as a straight up pitched battle on open terrain. The Covenanters should fully deployed first, the Royalist army deploys second.</div>
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The Covenanter army had some artillery, which was captured during the battle and turned on them by Royalists. Defeated or captured artillery can be re-used by the new owners (for this battle only). Highland clansmen start the battle with no muskets and improvised weapons. If they break any Covenanter regiment they gain their equipment.</div>
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OBJECTIVE: The objective for both sides is to hold the field at the end of the battle.<br />
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<b>The Battle of Justice Mills</b><br />
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With the Royalists still on the offensive at this stage, a modest Government army led by Lord Balfour of Burleigh blocks the Royalist advance on Aberdeen at Justice Mills on the outskirts of Aberdeen. Again, this battle can be re-fought as a pitched battle with the Covenanter army deploying first, and the politely providing the royalists time to deploy into battle line. The Covenanter army may place a single forlorn hope unit in the justice mills complex during deployment.</div>
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The Covenanters are in a strong position along the crest of a steep embankment (the Justice Mills Brae) which should be classed as Rough Terrain (for Pike & Shotte).</div>
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OBJECTIVE: The objective of the covenanters is to hold the Royalists for 8 game turns and have 50% of the Covenanter army unbroken by the end of the turn eight. The royalist objective is to clear the field and completely rout/destroy the Covenanter army.</div>
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<i>Revenge</i><br />
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There are accounts of the Irish being enraged by the murder of an Irish drummer boy during a pre-battle attempt to parley with the Covenanters. The furious Irish subsequently fight like fiends offering no quarter to the defeated Covenanters and brutally sacking the town of Aberdeen (to the great detriment of the Royalist cause). To represent this incident, the Irish can be given the Eager and/or Ferocious Charge rules for this battle only. However, if the Royalist player chooses to utilize this option, an additional -1 must be applied when rolling for recruits in the next battle (as the sacking of Aberdeen unsettles the local lairds).</div>
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<b>The Battle of Fyvie</b><br />
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With a third and much larger Covenanter army, led by Argyll, pursuing the Royalists following the sack of Aberdeen, Montrose retreated northwest towards the highlands. However, they are caught while encamped at Fyvie Castle in Aberdeenshire. With MacColla heading west to recruit amongst the clans, and the Gordon’s failing to turn out in strength, the Royalist army is weakened and in a desperate situation. In this battle the Royalists use the enclosed, hilly terrain and woods at the back of Fyvie Castle as a strong defensive position, and are able to hold off the Covenanters for three days of skirmishing before retreating during the night into the Highlands.</div>
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This battle could be fought as a series of three mini-battles of 5 turns. The Royalists are well dug-in in defensive positions, with a stronger Covenanter force repeatedly attempting to attack and displace the rebels.</div>
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OBJECTIVE: The objective of the Covenanters is to rout/destroy the Royalist army over the course of the three skirmishes and to capture Montrose and the Royal Standard. The objective of the Royalist army is to hold on and minimize losses until the end of the 3 skirmishes.<br />
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<i>Hold until nightfall</i><br />
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Terrain will limit the size of force Argyll can commit, but to further represent Argyll’s non-committal tactics, this game may be fought as a series of three large skirmishes, with the breaks representing night-fall. For each new skirmish, both forces begin fresh without disorder, shaken or casualty markers, although destroyed units will stay destroyed.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><b>The Battle of Inverlochy</b></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">At Inverlochy the Royalists go on the offensive to devastating effect. After a grueling long distance night march through the highlands, Montrose descends on Argyll’s Covenanter army at Inverlochy. This battle is again a pitched battle but with the Royalists having the element of surprise.</span><br />
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To represent the Royalists stealing the initiative, after deployment up to half of the royalist units may make a free move of up to 8”.<br />
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To represent the fatigue and lack of sleep after their grueling night march, all units in the Royalist army begin the battle with one casualty marker (This could also be -1 to Stamina).</div>
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<i>Gerintaethem!</i><br />
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The exhausted, sleepless Royalist army was in no mood for hanging about after the night march, and were eager to close on Argyll and finish the fight quickly. To represent this all units in the royalist army have the Eager special rule for this battle only.</div>
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<i>Escape</i><br />
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Whether Argyll got some bad press or not after this battle, most accounts agree that he was very quick to leave the field to his waiting galley. To reflect this, once 50% of the army is either destroyed or in flight, Argyll will leave the field. The remaining Covenanter Brigade commander will take command of the army if it is still able to fight on.</div>
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<b>The Battle of Auldearn</b><br />
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Hurry’s surprise attack on the scattered Royalist forces is often thought of as Montrose’s greatest victory. The initial weight of superior government forces must be held off by MacColla, until Montrose is capable of concentrating his forces and launching a telling counter-attack.</div>
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Terrain plays a big part in controlling the Covenanter advance, with marshes either side of Garlic Hill preventing their superior numbers from consuming the MacColla’s outnumbered forces.</div>
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OBJECTIVE: The objective for the Covenanters is to brush the defenders aside and capture Auldearn village before Montrose can bring his reserves to bear. The Royalists win if they hold Auldearn.<br />
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<i>Scattered Billets</i><br />
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At the start of the game, MacColla’s body guard and one other unit are deployed west of the village, with one other unit in the village. Royalist reserves begin to appear at turn 4 at a rate of one unit per turn. These are deployed on a D3 dice roll of:</div>
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However, the Royalist player can choose to withhold their arrival, enabling them to be deployed the following turn at a point of his choosing. This allows the Royalist to maximize the effect of their counterblow.</div>
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<b>The Battle of Alford</b></div>
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Following up on his victory over Hurry’s Covenanter army at Auldearn, Montrose marched south to meet a fifth Covenanter army led by Baillie. Montrose chooses his ground high on a ridge on the south side of the river Don near Alford. Baillie crosses the river at a ford and deploys for a fight. This battle can be fought as a simple pitched battle, with the Royalists deployed first, waiting while the Covenanters deploy.</div>
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OBJECTIVE: The objective for both sides is to hold the field at the end of the battle.</div>
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<b>The Battle of Kilsyth</b></div>
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With Baillie defeated and the Lowlands open for conquest, the Covenanters manage to pull together one last home defense army The reluctant Baillie is in nominal command but with his leadership ability now encumbered by his appointed kirk advisors. Montrose is waiting for the advancing Covenanters in the hills at Kilsyth, and Baillie attempts a brilliant flanking maneuver that could have ended the campaign. Unfortunately for the Government, an element of the Covenant army attacks too early, against Baillie’s orders, alerting the Royalists to the flanking movement. The battle descends into a meeting engagement as commander’s loose control and units from both sides join the fighting in a piecemeal manner.</div>
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The Royalist army should deploy first along the rightmost 2/3 of their chosen long table edge within 12” of the table edge. The Covenanter army deploy up to half the units in the rightmost 1/3 of the opposite table edge, but can deploy up to half way across the table.</div>
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At the beginning of the second and third turns the Covenanter player can deploy a further 25% of the units, such that the army is fully deployed by turn 3. These units are deployed on the same 1/3 table edge as the original deployment, but can take a full turn as normal. This represents the arrival of the remainder of Baillie’s army.</div>
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OBJECTIVES: The objective of both sides is to engage and defeat the enemy. The covenanter army should try hard to obtain victory by rolling up the royalist flank.</div>
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<i>Loss of Control</i></div>
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Rank Bajinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04930794862480779307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211483675455827250.post-58775770111641453142015-07-10T14:43:00.003-05:002017-02-24T16:58:37.099-06:00Pike & Shotte Reprise<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Been a while since we have posted on the blog. The flurry of activity getting the boards
ready and then getting the article out took a lot energy. However, we managed a couple of games - a couple of Auldearn refights, it really is
hard to for the Covenanters to win – the terrain obviously played a big part on
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We also had a go at Warhammer ECW the other week as this is what we set out to use
initially. <o:p></o:p>Much more bloody, with figures getting lifted off by the
dozen.<o:p></o:p> Lists are still blighted by highland supermen, Oirish Imperial
Guard and don’t get me started about Macolla!! <o:p></o:p>But, the bloody canister makes up for it, with artillery being the
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So last Tuesday we played a game of Pike and Shotte – a pick-up game
of 600pts.<o:p></o:p> Covenanters had two foote brigades of two battalia, one of
which had an attached medium gun, and a cavalry brigade of two regiments.<o:p></o:p> The Royalists had Macolla and his bodyguard along with one
Irish Regiment in one brigade, with Gordon leading two foote in his brigade.<o:p></o:p><br />
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We ran a scenario where the royalists had to traverse and exit the
board before the Covenanters could intercept them.<o:p></o:p> Terrain was a broad valley with a couple of woods and farms
steads.<o:p></o:p> The Irish were deployed closest to the Covenanters and the
gun duly took a couple of shots at them, succeeding in hitting MaCollas body
guard.<o:p></o:p> However, the Elite special rule meant that the disorder was
rolled off and now the covenanter Brigade would be playing chases for the rest
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On the right, the cavalry seemed reluctant to join the fray,
moving slower than the infantry brigade, and then proceeding to blunder off the
field.<o:p></o:p> The leading Covenanter regiments caught MaColla’s column,
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The Irish veered for the hills but eventually were caught
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Rank Bajinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04930794862480779307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211483675455827250.post-88329411189881884712015-04-27T22:29:00.001-05:002015-04-27T22:29:05.551-05:00Wargames Soldiers & Strategy - Auldearn<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Just a heads up - this months WS&S is now out and features the second part of our Wars of the Three Kingdoms in Scotland - with the meat being Auldearn.<br />
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Lots of photos from the finished (well maybe not the Gordon cav…) battle, but you'll get the gist. Hope everyone who's stayed with us enjoys the fruits. <br />
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Rank Bajinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04930794862480779307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211483675455827250.post-85301113942223334202015-03-08T13:23:00.002-05:002015-03-08T20:56:39.773-05:00Flags for Balfour of Burleigh's Regiment<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA</span></b></div>
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Below are the flags used for <a href="http://auldearn1645.blogspot.com/2015/03/lord-balfour-of-burleighs-regiment.html" target="_blank">Lord Balfour of Burleigh's Regiment</a>. They were made in photoshop and can be printed for use with your own armies.<br />
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The sheet above is Burleigh's colonel's color, and the sheet below is a company color. Both are based on a set of black flags captured by Cromwell's army at the Battle of Dunbar in 1650. They are described by Payne Fisher and tentatively identified as Burleigh's on the basis of the motto and device used on the Colonel's color.<br />
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The key evidence that these colors were carried by Burleigh's Regt is the use of the Balfour motto, "OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA" and the "maiden" device. I made a quick search on the interwebs, but I cannot find any independent verification that the Lords of Burleigh ever used this particular maiden device. However, I did find that the mermaid is a common device, and given the colors had been damaged, perhaps the image or the desrcription has been misinterpreted over the years.</div>
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A quick google search indicates that the version of the mermaid associated with Burleigh is shown above, in which the maid is shown arms up on both sides (as in the maiden device) but is holding a snake and a swan or goose head. I think it looks quite similar to the "Maiden" device described by Fisher. </div>
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The latin Balfour motto, "OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA", is written in red on the gold scroll work. It translates as <span style="text-align: center;">"Every land is a homeland for the courageous man", and is a quotation from Roman poet Ovid (43BC to 17AD); a verse from book I, line 493 of "Fasti" (Festivals).</span></div>
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The second motto on the colonels color is gold in color and is the standard post-1650 covenanter inscription, "COVENANT FOR RELIGION KING AND KINGDOMES". Most regimental colors captured at Dunbar bore this version of the motto, and that makes these flags anachronistic for 1644. </div>
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An example of a reproduction black ensign is shown below. This was provided by Martin Scott, a follower of this blog, and native of Auldearn, who is a member of the Sealed Knot and a re-enactor in Sir Arthur Erskine's Regiment of Foot, another regiment with black ensigns. Erskine's Regt was raised in 1643 and served in Leven's army at Marston Moor. The motto used pre-dates the 1650 standard.</div>
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The use of black is also unusual given the recruiting area in Fife. Most Fife regiments raised at this time adopted a yellow field with white saltire for company colors. Given these departures from the norms I have assumed (as did Reid) that Burleigh would have used a similar scheme for the regiment raised in 1644, albeit with a more archaic covenanter motto.</div>
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This is my third set of flags prepared for a covenanter regiment, the first being <a href="http://auldearn1645.blogspot.com/2008/04/flags-for-campbell-of-lawers-regiment.html" target="_blank">Campbell of Lawers' Regt</a> (which I made for Roy's first painted unit - Roy decided to hand draw and paint the rest of his flags on foil), the second was the <a href="http://auldearn1645.blogspot.com/2014/05/flags-for-earl-of-sutherlands-regiment.html" target="_blank">Earl of Sutherland's Regt</a>.</div>
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The flags can be printed out and used as is, but I like to re-paint over the printed design using the three layer method, to get the hand-painted look. The end-product can be seen in the photos.<br />
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The main references used for these flags are...<br />
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<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-top-color: rgb(169, 129, 33); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 15px;">"The English Emblematic Tradition (3): Emblematic Flag Devices of the English Civil Wars, 1642-1660" by Alan R. Young (Ed.) (University of Toronto Press)</li>
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<b>"...the garrison [Burleigh's Regt] ware the last that stood in the maine battell, and, being miserablie rent and torne, they, like bold and well trained souldioures, make there retreat in order, and too boldly resolves to march south, by crossing the [River] Die"</b></div>
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<i>Gordon of Ruthven on the retreat of Burleigh's regiment at Justice Mills</i></div>
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This covenanter regiment was not present at the Battle of Auldearn, but fought at the Battle of Justice Mills, just outside Aberdeen on 13th September 1644. The regiment had been installed as the government garrison of Aberdeen, to defend town from the Royalist threat posed by Huntly, but also to prevent the town going over to the Royalist cause. Aberdeen had sided with the Royalists against the covenanters in 1640 (when the covenanters were led by Montrose).<br />
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Lord Robert Balfour of Burleigh and Lord David Wemyss of Elcho, a couple of Fife notables, jointly raised this regiment in April 1644 in Fife, at the order of the Scottish government (the Estates) for anti-insurgency duty at home against Royalist trouble makers such as Huntly. The regiment spent May 1644 harrying Huntly's lands in the northeast of Scotland before settling in as garrison of Aberdeen, and some outlying castles, in June 1644.<br />
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Burleigh and Elcho were both energetic supporters of the covenanting government, and both were aspiring military men. Neither would prove successful in command of government armies and by September 1644 both men had been roundly defeated by Montrose and his Royalist army.<br />
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In August 1644, Lord Elcho left Aberdeen to raise further Fife levies for government service, probably in response to news of MacColla's Royalist landing on the Scottish west coast in July. Lord Elcho assumed command of the government army which marched out to meet Montrose and MacColla at Tippermuir on 1st September 1644.<br />
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Elcho's army was quickly defeated and destroyed, and the Burgh of Perth was captured and looted. Elcho escaped to fight again another day at Kilsyth under Baillie, but will never command an army again. However, Montrose moved quickly north intending to join with Huntly's forces in the Northeast and arrived with his army at Justice Mills, outside Aberdeen on 12th September 1644.<br />
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On the morning of 13th September 1644, Montrose sent a messenger into the city with a summons to surrender in the name of the King's lieutenant. Burleigh commanding the forces in Aberdeen refused the summons and then inexplicably marched his force out of the defended city to take position on top of a steep embankment above the How Burn (Holborn) and the Justice Mill watermill.<br />
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Several primary sources report a strange incident which occurs at the end of the parley. As Montrose's messengers were leaving the city, an Irish drummer in the party was shot and killed by someone in the covenanter army, perhaps from Burleigh's regiment. This murder enraged the Irish forces under Montrose and anger over this incident is thought to be the cause of the reported savagery of the Irish in the aftermath of the battle.<br />
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Burleigh has been heavily criticized for the decision to give battle outside the city, resulting in the bloody and decisive defeat of the Aberdeenshire army, and to the ferocious sack of Aberdeen city. Ironically, his inept handling of this encounter and the ensuing carnage, destruction and loss of life far more seriously damaged Montrose's cause in Scotland. Stories of catholic irish depravity in the rout of the Aberdeen army and the 3-day sack of the city spread widely though Scotland and undoubtedly swayed many potential Royalist sympathizers against Montrose and the King.<br />
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The regiment, commanded by Lt Col Charles Arnot, was positioned on the left of the covenanter battle line and faced McDonnell's Irish regiment on the Royalist right. After cavalry battles on the left and right of the lines, the Aberdeen City Militia in the centre of the government engaged in a short but fierce firefight with Laghtnan's Regt. Laghtnan's Irish then charged up the embankment and put the Aberdeen city part-timers to rout, chasing them back towards the town.<br />
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With the government army collapsing around them, Burleigh's Regt retain discipline, and try to march off the field in good order. They were spotted leaving by MacColla, who led 400 Irish, likely McDonnell's Regt, to attack and slaughter the retreating regiment.<br />
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The regiment was not completely destroyed however and, reconstituted with fresh Fife conscripts, made a similarly doomed appearance at the Battle Alford in July 1645, as part of Baillie's Government Army. Furgol further suggests that the remnants of the regiment were with Elcho and the ill-fated Fife brigade at the Battle of Kilsyth in August 1645.<br />
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As well-drilled and equipped lowland regulars I have modeled Burleigh's Regt as typical covenanter infantry. Figures are mostly Perry ECW Scots, with a few armored pikemen from the Perry English ECW range for variety.<br />
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The regiment was well billeted in Aberdeen in the months before the battle. There were even accusations of corruption and fraud against the regiment for dodgy expense claims and abuse of the billeting order while in garrison.<br />
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As such I imagined this regiment as having been spared the rigors of campaign and equipment, uniforms and flags are painted clean, bright and well maintained. I have added a few blue, red and brown coats and breeks, just to break up the hodden grey.<br />
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The regiment numbered at least 500 at Aberdeen, so at 1:10 figure:men scale this regiment is a little small, so I may add a couple of extra stands of pike and shot later. Being "standard issue" covenanter infantry, this unit could be fielded as any government unit (with an optional change of command stand to get flags right).<br />
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As with all my other units, bases are mostly 40mm square, 3mm MDF from Litko. They are textured with wood filler and sand, painted and dry-brushed, and decorated with static grass, grass tufts and heather. Heather is made using dark green clump foliage sprinkled with purple flock.<br />
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I originally bought these models to use as <a href="http://auldearn1645.blogspot.com/search/label/Buchanan%27s%20Regiment" target="_blank">Buchanan's Regt</a>, but Roy took care of that unit. I then considered using them for the <a href="http://auldearn1645.blogspot.com/search/label/Earl%20of%20Sutherland%27s%20Regiment" target="_blank">Earl of Sutherland's Regt</a>, but later decided to portray Sutherland using highland regulars. Having no longer any need for these for the Auldearn OOB, I decided to paint them up as Burleigh's Regt because (1) I would like to refight Justice Mills at some point and (2) I loved Burleigh's black flags.<br />
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The flags include both a Colonel's colour and a single company color, and are unusual in that they are <i>both</i> black. Black company colors were not unknown, but Colonel's colors of the time were typically white. The flag designs are based on records of flags captured at Dunbar in 1651and identified as the colors of a later regiment raised by Burleigh in Fife.<br />
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I will provide more information about the flags in a separate blog post. Next units up for me will be two LARGE units of Gordon Horse, and I will share a WIP soon. Also looking forward to getting a game in on the new boards with Roy next Friday.<br />
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<i>Gordon of Ruthven on the retreat and destruction of Burleigh's regiment at Justice Mills</i></div>
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Yesterday we took the photos to accompany our article on Auldearn.<br />
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It was the first time we had the table out, buildings and trees on, and all the figures out.<br />
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Really, it was the end of 7 years hard work.<br />
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The photos below are a taster - taken on the phone, with the main ones on the camera going to the magazine.<br />
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We never played it as a game - more just moved the troops to record what happened .<br />
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I think we nailed the scales on the terrain, which proved to be confining for the convenanters as they were sucked in towards the village.<br />
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We get to play it in two weeks - getting a rest from glue and paint just now.<br />
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Rank Bajinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04930794862480779307noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211483675455827250.post-5563959996979964942015-03-02T07:39:00.003-06:002015-03-02T10:38:59.543-06:00Terrain V - Auldearn Village<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Auldearn village and Kirk. Buildings are light-weight extruded foam models originally produced by Hudson and Allen (now sold by Vatican Enterprises), mounted on thin sheets of MDF (1/8" thick) with Rendra plastic wattle fences. </div>
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Auldearn Kirk is a (heavy) resin model originally manufactured by PMC Terrain/Games and called "Medieval Church". I picked this up on Ebay back in 2007 from seller "sellthatstuffboy" who was then acting as a manufaturer/re-seller for the PMC range.The kirk yard is decorated with plastic Renedra gravestones.</div>
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Rank Bajinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04930794862480779307noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211483675455827250.post-76802808175833602742015-02-28T14:17:00.002-06:002015-03-02T10:36:52.429-06:00Terrain IV<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Spent the last couple of meetings dry-brushing the terrain and making it come to life. The grass took a couple of "lightening-up's" to really come out - the roads, having a bit more obvious texture, jumped out straight away.</div>
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Again, the light is problematic as can be seen in the shots below - all taken within about 3 minutes of each other.</div>
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We thought hard about how to represent the marshy areas which played such an important part in the battle, eventually just doing some washes and bespoke dry-brushing. - think it came out better than it may appear in the shots.</div>
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Based up some trees - mix of Woodland Scenic types and old GW. CD's and steel washers provide the bases, allowing a little more stability. All the exposed bark was painted - got away from the plastic sheen.</div>
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Spent most of yesterday painting the towels to get a consistent finish - the dying having been a bit hit and miss. All the fabric types blend pretty well - next stage is the dry brushing</div>
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Started the business of "dressing the boards this weekend.Rather than grass-mat or painted sand, we chose to use toweling dyed olive green (mostly), using Dylon dyes. As no two batches are exactly the same (different dilutions, amounts of salt used to fix colours) we ended up with a variety of tones.</div>
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These shots look down the board to Auldearn village, showing Garlic Hill in the centre and Castle Hill off to the flank. Still got some gaps to fill in and the roads to paint and texture.</div>
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The towel was stuck down with a mix of wood-glue and plaster of paris, but we need to fix some of the edges, then saturate the whole thing with watered down pva for extra strength. This should also give us a better texture to dry brush the towel, breaking down the hard edges.</div>
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Castle Hill is the only lay down terrain on the board all the other hills are intrinsic - helps stop warping.</div>
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Good view "up-table" showing the layout of the village</div>
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Some Covenanters and Macollas Lifeguard fro scale</div>
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Detailed shot giving a feel for the texture on Garlic Hill.</div>
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With most pike and shotte regiments having a foot of frontage - even big features such as this will get cluttered fairly quickly.<br />
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View from the defenders side.</div>
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The last couple of weeks have been spent building the boards for the battlefield. We have a hard deadline on this part of the project for if we want to get it into the next WSS article (due out in May) - we need the photographs out by the end of February.</div>
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We decided that we'd build enough boards to cover 6' by 24' - as this would give us plenty of variety going forward - with the Auldearn Board (6'by 8') being the main aim. This meant we had a lot of work to do.</div>
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The basic design would utilise 2' by 4' mdfs, and we buildt beading around the edges, fitting 1/2inch foam insulation into the center - so we got strength with lightness.</div>
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The terrain was then outlines and height build up by adding more sheets of foam</div>
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Auldearn Village - basic design</div>
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Auldearn Village - hill sculpt - note additional thin sheets of foam added to level up 1/2 inch insulation foam.<br />
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Garlic Hill - center point of the battle - 2" of hill built up<br />
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Boards looking pretty big - this shows relationship of Garlic Hill, Castle Hill and Auldearn Village</div>
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Detail of "clad" Garlic Hill with Monymore's Regiment guarding the crest.</div>
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The houses have all been painted, each will have its own small tile with fencing etc.</div>
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We only have a little sanding on some other hills and painting of the board edges before we get down to the dressing phase - hopefully it should be done this weekend......</div>
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Rank Bajinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04930794862480779307noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211483675455827250.post-36788775141782166732015-01-12T19:28:00.003-06:002015-01-12T19:28:46.189-06:00Dragoon Gun Line<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Happy New Year - looking forward to big things this year as we put Project Auldearn all together!</div>
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Here's a couple of photos of the complete Covenanter Dragoons - mounted reserve, horse holders and skirmishing Dragoons.</div>
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I'm really pleased how these all turned out - I remember trying to get it straight in my head, then planning it through.</div>
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Looking forward to getting it all out on the table!</div>
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Originally a dragoon regiment, by the end of its career, the troopers had become hardened enough (and perhaps with sturdier nags) to become traditional cavalry. Its recruiting area under Hugh Fraser of Kynneries is unknown. All of its senior officers where veterans from the continent.</div>
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Arriving in England in May, by the siege of York it was well provisioned and with an impressive compliment of troopers. Serving with Leven through Northumberland and County Durham it acquitted itself well at the Battle of Corbridge. When Montrose, before his Highland adventures, attacked Morpeth castle, Fraser and Wheldons Horse pushed the royalist back.</div>
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At Marston Moor, they deployed on the allied left, pushing forward to take control of the Sike Beck, a ditch perpendicular to the main deployment. As both forces began to deploy, some of Ruperts' cavalry pushed forward into contact with Frasers Dragoons. They held and prevailed, with the royalist troopers fleeing to York. </div>
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As Cromwell advanced, the dragoons cleared the ditch in front of the main body of horse, allowing the allied line to charge unimpeded. After briefly resting, the regiment moved forward again in support of the calvalry.</div>
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Newcastles' Whitecoats had positioned themselves within the enclosures at White Sikes Close, determined to sell themselves dearly. Both Cromwell and Leslies Horse had been unable to make an impression, so Fraser's dragoons were moved up.</div>
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Firing into the hedgehog of pikes, a gap was made, which their mounted colleaques exploited, breaking then routing the Whitecoats, cementing the allied victory at Marston Moor.</div>
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Over the following months, throughout the winter, it crossed and recrossed the Pennines, serving at the siege of Carlisle.</div>
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By summer, Montroses' success in Scotland led it being recalled by Leslie to move north. On September 13th, it was engaged at Philiphaugh, ending Montrose's advance. However, as the north was still in arms, it moved north with Middletons cavalry. By October, it received permission to become a regiment of horse and returned to England.</div>
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By now, the long campaign and lack of supply/pay began to take its toll. It continually levied retribution on the area's it was quartered in - running what amounted to little more than extortion on the locals. Relations soured not only with the local populace but with the constabulary and with the Parliamentary army - who demanded the miscreants be tried under their jurisdiction. The Scottish officers refused, having held their own court martials.</div>
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By the spring of 1647 the regiment left England to be disbanded at Kelso. Fraser received a commission in the "New Model" army, but although it had an excellent reputation, in England it was forever associated with the depredations of the original.</div>
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Rank Bajinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04930794862480779307noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211483675455827250.post-39297034454401113552014-12-18T06:44:00.001-06:002015-01-27T19:23:10.848-06:00Furgol<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Well his name might sound like something the cat coughed up, but Edward Furgols work has proved to be a fantastic resource for this project.<br />
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"The Regimental History of the Covenanting Armies; 1639-1651", published by John Donald (ISBN 0 85976 194 0) was built out from Furgols Ph.D thesis at the University of Edinburgh.<br />
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I can't state enough how useful this book is. All the regiments would have been just a never-ending roll of grey figures without this. His accounts gave the blog some substance, and also a bit of color!<br />
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From lumps of lead to hard drinking, hard shagging, hard fighting soldiers!<br />
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I've heard he took some criticism from Stuart Reid but then he gets plenty to!</div>
Rank Bajinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04930794862480779307noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211483675455827250.post-56782587470548852332014-12-12T23:44:00.000-06:002014-12-13T08:41:57.248-06:00Dalhousie's Horse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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William, 1st Earl of Dalhousie, raised the regiment mainly from East Lothian in 1643. Moving south in the Spring, it was at York where the defenders on a sally, broke out and attacked the horse lines of the regiment. At Martson Moor, it was in the Fairfax's second line, but routed when it broke and Ruperts Cavalry pushed victoriously through.</div>
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After the battle, they joined the siege of Newcastle before moving north to join Argyll around Aberdeen. However, by the early spring they had returned south, serving at the siege of Carlisle. Again it was attacked by a party making a sortie from the city, receiving the worst of it. </div>
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After Carlisle fell, they moved south to Hereford but were recalled to join Leslie as he moved to confront Montrose. Engaged at Philiphaugh, they stayed in Scotland but by Christmas were in a sorry state with only one in three troopers having mounts.</div>
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Back in England for 1646, the regiment saw little action. As with other regiments, idleness resulted in indiscipline. By 1647 it had a reputation for adultery and fornication. One soldier was charged by fathering a bastard, with his accuser, Margrett Elder saying she had been tied against her will to a post. However, on further questioning both admitted it had been consensual, resulting in both doing public penance (whether she was still tied to the post wasn't mentioned). </div>
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Disbanded in 1647, one troop was incorporated in Sir Mungo Murrays' "New Model" regiment of horse. </div>
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I wasn't sure how this regiment would turn out - was skeptical right up to the last moment - but when I put the lances in their hands they really looked the business. Might be worthwhile increasing the size to 18….</div>
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Alexander, 1st Earl of Balcarres was commissioned to raise a regiment of horse by the Estates for service with the field army in England.</div>
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In the field with Leven, they served under Major Alexander Home, a veteran of the Thirty Years war. The regiment saw action at both the sieges of York and Newcastle, and formed part of the left wing at Marston Moor, under Leslie.</div>
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In the autumn, the regiment headed north in response to Montrose's depredations. Joining with Lothian's Foote and Hacketts Horse they formed the garrison in Aberdeen during late February. However, lack of pay and the rigors of campaigning for nearly a year had left the regiment on bad shape, with basic clothing being noted to be in poor condition.</div>
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By mid March they had joined Hurry and where involved in the capture of Aberdeen, slaying many notable royalists and capturing their horse. Joining with Ballie's army the marched south but where to late to stop Montrose's sack of the town.</div>
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With Halketts Horse, they were active in the pursuit of Montrose's force, clashing with the rearguard. On the second day, they contacted the royalist at Careston ford on the River Esk. The pursuit was so effective that Montrose's men could not forage, having, in effect, to fight their way back to their Highland fastness.</div>
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The regiment was based around Cromar with Baillie and missed Auldearn. </div>
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At Alford, the regiment was split into three squadrons and placed on the left flank. Here Ballie hoped the first two squadrons would hold Gordon's Horse, allowing the third and the supporting infantry to charge in. Unfortunately as the action unfolded, the third squadron held back allowing Gordons the upper hand, as their infantry came up in support.</div>
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Although mauled, Balcarres held their cohesion and were with the field army at Kilsyth. Placed on the right of the line, with the Midlothian Foote and Crawford-Lindsays Fife Levies, they were involved in the "flank" march which strung out the Covenanter line. At first they hard pushed the royalist line, but as Aboyne brought his men in support, the Covenanter line wavered then broke.</div>
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Given their lateral position, it is surprising that any of the regiment escaped, perhaps only the fleetness of their horses saving them.</div>
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Retiring to East Lothian, the regiment began to reform but missed the final encounter at Philiphaugh. Perhaps the troops had other ideas during this time, as one of them was charged for "fornication" by the presbytery of Haddington.</div>
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Brought up to strength by November, the regiment headed south to England joining the field army at Newark, where its strength was recorded as 488 officers and men. The government where again slow with pay and supplies as were the local English parliamentarians. Because of this, the regiment developed a reputation for living "off the land" </div>
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By the end of the year, it was back in Scotland, underpaid and with a reputation for being hard living. Four men where charged with drunkeness, fornication, fathering a bastard and adultery - though not all at once! By 1647 the regiment was disbanded but with a reputation for resilience undiminished.</div>
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At the moment, I just pained the troop to provide some extra figures for the regiments at Auldearn, which in turn will bulk up Balacarres at Alford. The standard is pretty generic, Scottish Cavalry always seeming to make good their escape in the battles. If anything it is more like Campbell of Lawers.</div>
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Figures are all Perry, made up from their Moss Troopers and generic helmeted troopers from the English range. I've already mixed and matched it with the other regiments to get more blue bonnets.</div>
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Good fun to paint, the abundance of buff coats and the odd bit of tartan make it look a hard fighting, hard loving bunch of ragamuffins! </div>
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Rank Bajinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04930794862480779307noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211483675455827250.post-66703205550172790002014-11-30T14:01:00.000-06:002014-12-09T22:30:53.486-06:00Dragoon Horse Line<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I cobbled these together as I wanted to have some markers for where dragoons mount and dismount. The horses are Eureka - bit smaller than Perry's - but look like nags. The men are just Perry pikemen and a wounded fella. Fences are old metal, wattle and dub from Gripping Beast.</div>
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