Pikes running rampant

Games night at John's on Friday, and we pulled out some figures from his English Civil War collection for a game of Pikeman's Lament. We used the same unit flank rules that we've been using with Dragon Rampant, and they worked a treat.
The sides were broadly similar, except that the Parliamentarians had trotters, the Royalists had gallopers and the Roundheads also had a Dragoon unit while the Cavaliers had a third unit of horse.

The game begins as the Royalists begin to move up.

The Royalist horse are not mucking around at all!

The Parliamentarians are up for the challenge.

By this stage the Royalist horse have been worn down on either flank, while the Roundhead commander and his entourage ride down the flank of the Royalist musketeers.

But in turn the reserve Royalist cavalry charge into the flank of the Roundhead pikemen, causing massive casualties and forcing them to break.

The end of the battle with the last Parliamentarian musketeer unit in retreat, the Roundhead commander killed and the Cavaliers in possession of the town.

I continue to be in love with the 'rampant' family of rules. At the moment I've just started collecting some Napoleonic figures for Rebels and Patriots. More on that later.

Nate