Town planning

Just a quickie this week to show off a little project progress, so get your specs on again (or a quantum tunnelling microscope if you have one to hand) cos it’s 2 mill time…

My ECW campaign kick off is drawing ever closer, and the push is now on to complete the last few units and finish off some items of terrain. 

Here for your general scorn and derision is the small town of « insert made up name here »  containing the famous Abbey of St Mungo’s in the Marsh.

And here is the village of Wyre Piddle (there actually is one in Worcestershire by the way).

Both sets of buildings are from Brigade and are based on standard Hexon hexes (10cm between the flat sides). I’ve even left enough room to put units in the hex this time around!

One of the criticisms of this scale is the suggestion that the units are more like counters than miniatures. Naturally I disagree but it doesn’t help (in my view) when small units are based on large bases (emphasising the counter like appearance) and there is a corresponding trail of actual counters showing status that follows the units around on the board. Like this the units do indeed begin to look just like one more counter amongst many.

My solution has been to make my bases small and plain, and the units bright (real life drab colours are not your friend in 2mm). All the status information has been taken off the board and put on a separate dry wipe dashboard like this one.

Here you can see my Royalist dash board for a trial game. King Charles is the overall commander and he has issued (pre game) orders to his three main subordinates, Rupert, Astley and Wilmot. They in turn command a number of regîments / battalia who must attempt to follow the issued orders. King Charles can change the current orders during the game but in his case he can only change three of them. 

I’ve found it useful to keep a reserve brigade behind the man line on a hold order and use this to effect any major changes of strategy - mid game. 

And finally…

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