The Covenanters finally appear!

 Back in 2023(!) I succumbed to marketing genius of Warlord Games and started painting up a few of the freebie sprues that they occasionally give away with issues of WI.  In this case it was for some of the Epic scale ECW range.  I was donated a few unwanted sprues from friends, and acquired some more from eBay so have had a decent amount to paint up.  My painting speed is pretty glacial and the Covenanters have been on pause while I worked on some other bits and pieces, but I finally decided it was time to get them out on the table.

I have a decent amount of Covenanter Pike and Muskets and a smaller number of more generic troops.  The advantage of the Scots is that they fought pretty much everyone in the ECW so I have plenty of choice of opponents!  I haven't got round to painting up some Highlanders for a Montrose army so they would have to fight some English troops... Royalist or Parliament?  Who knows!

The Epic figures come in 10 figure strips which are easy to paint and look great en masse...I still haven't got round to adding flags for these yet which would definitely enhance the units. .. they're next on the to-do list.

We used Pikeman's Lament which are nice and simple.  Commanding units proved a bit of a challenge for my Scots who were obviously a bit reluctant to take on the English troops. And the musket fire was remarkably effective.  Each side had 1 unit of cavalry...my Scots lancers refused to move, but the English stations proved very effective.  

The Covenanters eye up the village

I managed to drive them out of the village but only to have them hang about on my flanks proving very annoying and tying up half the army.  Not the Covenanters finest hour...here's hoping they prove more successful in future games!

The Dragoons occupy the village