While I haven't been doing much with the hobby recently, I continue to follow my favorite blogs and occasionally go to auction sites. My last visit to Ebay contained some Peter Laing figures that were reasonably priced and of interest to me. The most important was pontoon wagon and pontoon, giving me two such wagons. Also two more Wellington figures, which make great 19th century generals, and some gunners marked as German WW1, although I believe the are French in Adrian helmets.
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I recently played a game from Mike Lambos' Battle of the English Civil War using Irregulars Miniatures 2mm ECW blocks, backed up with some ACW blocks. The blocks are mounted on plastic bases with yellow dots painted on front to show which direction the base is facing. In this game units are demoralized, and must try to rally. If they fail on their rally roll, they continue to retreat until they pass their rally check, or flee the field of battle.
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| With these rules the AI gets to move every turn. The AI forces in this game were very aggressive and closed with my army quickly. |
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| My army was in the beginning successful at driving the enemy cavalry off the field. However, that brought my infantry within range of his musketeers, which broke three of my infantry units, which in turn fled the field. After that the battle went downhill for my army. |
