Now in its second edition, the time frame has been stretched forwards to also cover the Wars of the Roses.

For my gaming, I expect these to manage both the 1066 project and the Wars of the Roses project. There is also an eye being kept on the next Epic release, which may be Roman based.

I will almost certainly get something Roman at some future point, so there will be triple service.

The rules use the term ‘divisions’ as the organisational command level and so for us, we can view those four divisions as centre and two wings, plus any reserve.

In Wars of the Roses the terminology would equate to the vanguard, the mainward and the rearward being three divisions, with any reserve or reinforcement being a fourth.

These seem quite well suited to dining / kitchen table battles with their infantry movement allowance of 6” and cavalry at 9” or 12” depending upon type. 

I played a practice Wars of the Roses game today, using three divisions per side and it it went well and I am looking forward to exploring the rules further. 

By first sticking point was how to represent a Household unit with my basing system.

The Household unit is a recognition by the HC army lists that men were recruited and armed locally and then take to the battle by their own hierarchy, say a Lord and that the men would fight together, in close proximity of each other.

The rules describe this as a unit of three bases. The centre base is heavy infantry and the two wing bases are longbow, this the unit has both a ranged fire rating and a close combat rating.

My own units are based on 80mm frontages and I like to treat each base as a single unit.

I decided that to represent a ‘household’ unit, I would use an archer base and an infantry bill base and place one immediately behind the other, so unit frontage of 80mm was preserved, but visually, this mass of bodies signified a Household unit.

In the photograph, the handgunners have got themselves into cover and are represented as a single base.

Anyway, in the test game, it seemed to work. More can be read about it on the blog. LINK.

https://battlefieldswarriors.blogspot.com/2023/10/taking-hail-caesar-for-spin-wotr.html