Warlord Games Pike & Shotte (28mm)

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The Pike and Shotte Battalia Starter Army contains:

• 80 Plastic Pike and Musket Infantry with 2 sets of Command
• 24 Plastic Cavalry
• 10 Firelocks
• Plastic bases
• 40 Full colour Flags both Parliament and Royalists

Note: models are supplied unassembled and unpainted

Firelock companies were raised throughout the Civil Wars for a variety of purposes. Formed originally to fight in the wild bogs of Ireland where a flintlock was more easily handled than the clumsy matchlock, firelock-armed musketeers grew more common as the Civil Wars progressed, all armies sometimes fielding large units so armed.

The firelock had numerous advantages over the older matchlock. It was ready to fire at a moment's notice, was more weatherproof and did not betray a night advance with glowing match cord. It was also much cheaper in the long run as they did not consume vast quantities of match cord.

They were regularly used for baggage and artillery guards, as the flintlock mechanism was seen as infinitely more desirable in a gunpowder depot than spluttering, lit, match cord!

By mid to late war, whole companies were fielded. For the Royalists, Legge's who fought at Edgehill, Rupert’s and Maurice’s redcoats and Sandford's from Ireland. Parliament issued them liberally and many of the New Model Army had whole companies so armed and later, whole regiments. The Scots Covenanter forces also used the firelock to good effect.

Warlord Games’ Firelocks are shown storming a bridge led by their dashing Captain, just the sort of action that Firelock Companies were used for!

The Pike and Shotte Firelock Storming Party box set contains 16 plastic Firelock Musketeers, 1 Officer & 1 Drummer.

Note: models are supplied unassembled and unpainted

Check out our comprehensive review of the Firelock Storming Party kit in our blog: Pike and Shotte Firelock Storming Party review.

Thundering across the field of battle, resplendent in their ornate plate armour and pistols held tightly in gauntleted hands the charge of a cuirassier regiment was something to behold!

Warlord Games’ Cuirassiers are tooled up with horse pistols, swords and even war hammers. Sound the charge!

The Pike & Shotte Cuirassiers boxed set contains 12 metal Cuirassiers mounted on plastic horses, bases, flags & a background guide.

Note: models are supplied unassembled and unpainted

Pike & Shotte provides rules for all the fundamentals of warfare such as the command of troops, movement on the battlefield, the effects of shooting with an assortment of ranged weapons, the role of morale as well as close quarter combat. Detailed rules and separate army lists cover the different methods of fighting during the period, and teh book also includes numerous examples of further rules allowing players to tailor games to their own preference.

The Pike & Shotte Rulebook is a 208 page Hardback book.

The dour psalm singing men of Parliament are captured here in a box containing 40 Parliament Soldiers and eight standards and complete with bases. From the hurriedly raised regiments and tarried bands of 1642, the Rebel army grew to be an awesome fighting force with the Venice red coated New Model Army driving all before them. By the 1650 the NMA was arguably the best trained and effective force in Europe.

The Pike and Shotte Parliament Infantry box gives you enough parts to assemble 40 Parliament infantry.

Note: models are supplied unassembled and unpainted

Check out our comprehensive review of the Parliament Infantry kit in our blog: Pike and Shotte Parliament Infantry review.

Splendidly attired well equipped and organized the Imperialist troops of the Thirty Years War fought long and hard in all the countries of Continental Europe. Uniforms were a matter of the whim of the General or the Colonel, so that massed regiments and Brigades of pike and shot will look truly amazing on the tabletop.

Warlord include a host of metal parts to really give a period feel to the models with extra musket rests, helmets and hats, glorious printed standards and a splendid metal command group and extra armoured pikemen.

The Pike and Shotte Thirty Years War Imperialist Regiment is a metal and plastic boxed set containing 43 miniatures!

Note: models are supplied unassembled and unpainted

There is a compelling thrill about the sight of a Scottish Government army drawn up for battle. Dour-faced hardmen from the lowlands of Scotland drawn up in their trademark Hodden Grey uniforms, topped with their distinctive blue-knitted bonnets, the Covenanters fought hard in many bloody battles of the civil wars.

Indeed they routed the English forces in the Bishops’ Wars leading up to the great civil war where they first sided with Parliament, fighting mainly in the North, most famously at Marston Moor. Then they made a momentous decision and sold the captured Charles I, their King, to his bitter enemies, Parliament.

This unholy alliance could not last and the Covenant army found itself allied with a doomed Royalist cause in the second and third civil wars.

Well-equipped and organised, the Scottish infantry could give a good account of themselves. They scorned armour, and often helmets, in their pike divisions, but all too many of them died at catastrophic battles like Preston, Dunbar and, finally, Worcester or were slaughtered in the Highlands by Montrose's wild Highlanders and Irish. Survivors were shipped to the West Indies where many died of disease, a sad end to a once proud fighting force.

The Pike & Shotte Covenanters Box Contains a Total of 40 Miniatures including:

The Pike and Shotte Covenanter Infantry box gives you enough parts to assemble 40 Covenanter infantry and eight flags, a painting guide and bases.

Note: models are supplied unassembled and unpainted

Officer. Lifted straight from page 116 of Wagner's classic TYW book, this officer is a classic study. He is richly dressed, in old fashioned jacket and possibly has served on the continent himself. He will be ideal for all early armies, as Royalist, Parliament or Covenanter and will serve as a captain or leiutenant of foot. He has a partizan and sword, and a pistol hung down from his belt. A lovely study.

Ensign. This fellow is taken from the wonderful Haythornthwaite ECW book, and is a classic Ensign, with sword drawn and dressed in a cassock. Again he could be used in all armies, Rebel, Royalist, Scots or Montrose.

Drummer. Every Company fielded at least one drummer and our fellow is neatly attired in a posh jacket with ribbon and braid attached. He wears a jaunty Montero with feathers too, something that the Colonel has thought it worth dipping into his own pockets for, which was common at the time. Being a warlord Drummer, although he is not carrying a sword, he is still packing a pistol for close defence.

Sergeant. We asked for this sergeant to be a hard bitten professional who has seen a thing or two in his time. He wears a Burgonet and sleeveless buff coat and is doing what sergeants do best, shouting! He could be slotted into any Civil war army.

The Pike and Shotte Command blister pack contains 4 miniatures; one Officer, one Sergeant, one Drummer & one Ensign.

Note: models are supplied unassembled and unpainted

The core of Montrose's Highlanders, the brave and dashing Clansmen, fighting for their Laird and their clan's honour, and lets face it, its not as if the Scots need an excuse for a punch up is it?

Brave, hardy men and doughty fighters, they are equipped with targe and broadsword, some favouring pistols, muskets or even longbows. Whatever they are tooled up with, they will give as good as they get on the battlefield!

The Pike and Shotte Clan Highlanders blister pack contains 6 Clan Highlander miniatures.

Note: models are supplied unassembled and unpainted

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the rise of the pike-armed infantryman as well as the increased firepower of black powder weapons on the field of battle. Warlord's boxed set portrays typical mounted harquebusiers of the late 16th and early 17th century, and can represent troops of many nationalities.

The Pike and Shotte Imperial Harquebusiers is a metal and plastic boxed set containing containing

• 12 multi-part metal Harquebusiers (including command)
• 12 plastic horses
• Plastic bases
• Background guide
• Six Full-colour flags for Thirty Years War

Note: models are supplied unassembled and unpainted