Old Glory ECW Artillery

These are the last major units/figures for the ECW project. All of these were part of the deal from my buddy last month - he actually threw these in for free. I stripped them of the old paint and repainted them - possibly a bit too colorful.

Speaking of stripping the paint - I found out that Simple Green simply doesn't work anymore. They must've changed or weakened the formula. I ended up using some wood finish striper that I had on hand - Citristrip. That worked great - but only on metals as it will soften/melt plastic if left on too long.

The figures aren't too bad - and have a lot of variety - but the cannon themselves are really nice, IMO. I like the raised sculpting on some of the gun barrels, as well as the nicely detailed wheels.

The gun carriages being pretty colorful, I tried to mute the clothing of the crews. They should look okay when spaced apart with foot regiments. From what I understand, guns weren't usually grouped together like in later periods - although they might've been during sieges and such. They were also usually brought up onto the battlefield and left there to be manhandled during the battle. That is, they weren't limbered up and moved around once the battle commenced. To reflect this in Pike and Shotte, heavy artillery are immovable; medium guns can be manhandled 3" per turn; and light guns can make up to two 6" moves per turn. Only two crew per gun as I only had 30 figures; which allowed the bases to be smaller overall to take up less space on the gaming table.

My first Pike & Shotte game is scheduled for this coming Friday - so, hope it goes well and will post an AAR with pictures afterwards. Thanks again for dropping by and wishing you all the best!