To Kill A King - English Civil War Supplement

In 168 pages of full color information with an introduction by writer Charles Singleton, this supplement to Pike & Shotte details the history, armies, Figures and battles of the English Civil War. Included are detailed scenarios based on some of the most famous battles, complete with maps and battle formations/army lists for the main protagonists.

Packed with detailed background information, including:

•     The early reign of Charles I
•     The Bishop Wars and the Brief Parliament
•     Rebellion in Ireland
•     The First Civil War
•     The Second Civil War
•     Another war with Scotland

Plus a comprehensive Civil War timeline and a detailed look at the Civil War armies who were the infantry, the cavalry and the artillery, how they were organized and deployed.

The author then takes you through the Civil War and Military Revolution tactics of the time the Dutch and Swedish systems were learned and used and is indeed explained in detail here along with other Civil War tactics.
Profiles of Royalist and Parliamentary Commanders.
Complete color guide to the colors used by the Civil War participants.
Early War Lists for the Scots Covenanter Army of the Bishops' Wars.
Bishops' Wars Scots Royalist and English Pre Civil War Army.

The Royalist Army Lists

•     The early royal army
•     The King's Oxford Army
•     The early Oxford Army
•     The late Oxford Army
•     The Royal Cornish Army, 1643
•     The Western Royalist Army, 1644
•     The Royalist Northern Army
•     Welsh Marshes and the Anglo-Irish
•     Royalist Army

Combat scenarios include:

•     The Battle of Brentford November 12, 1642
•     The Battle of Chalgrove Field June 18, 1643
•     The Battle of Adwalton Moor on June 30, 1643
•     The Battle of Lansdown Hill on July 5, 1642

plus a battle report for the Battle of Nantwich on January 24, 1644

The Parliamentary Army lists include:

•     The Army under Lord Essex
•     The armies of Sir William Waller
•     Fairfax Northern Army
•     The Army of the Eastern Union
•     Clubmen Army
•     The new model army

Specific combat scenarios include:

•     The Battle of Cheriton March 19, 1644
•     The Battle of Omskirk on August 20, 1644
•     The Battle Report of the Second Battle of Newbury, October 27, 1644
•     The Battle of Wistanstow on June 8, 1645
•     The Battle of Torrington February 16, 1646

The Scottish Army Lists include:

•     Scottish Covenanter
•     The Scottish Royalist Army of the Marquess of Montrose
•     The Scottish Royalist Army of 1644
•     The Scottish Royalist Army of 1645
•     The "traditional" Montrose Army

Consider more combat scenarios:

•     The Battle of Aberdeen on September 13, 1644
•     Battle report for the Battle of Inverlochy, 2 February 1645
•     The Battle of Benburb June 5, 1646
•     The Battle of Winwick Pass August 19, 1648

Irish Army lists include:

•     The Irish Catholic Confederate
•     Anglo Scottish Army
•     Ormond Irish Royalist Alliance Army

plus

•     Special “Period” specific rules
•     "Late Misery of War" 8 pages of detailed campaign rules
•     10 pages of glorious siege rules