ECW 4 a couple of For King and Parliament games

Des (nephew 1) came over the other day and we played out the scenario from the For King and Parliament rulebook, the battle of M ,for our first game of these rules .
I set it up with my troops, in order to get a pike and shot unit in a  box I had to halve the size of my blackpowder units,but I figured they looked alright, I also did the same with the cavalry units. I had to use my Covenanter cavalry and also their forlorn hope(detached shot)
I took the Royalists and Des was the rebels , I did my best to advance and tried to take out his cavalry force on my right wing, unfortunately for me I hadn't had much impact when his detached cavalry force turned up on the first available turn,behind me,pretty much game over, FKP Is a development of To the strongest! ,so a card driven game, a bit more paraphernalia on the table and there are differences but we mostly picked it up, Des had previously joined in with Simon's game of Soggy Bottom a Salute or two back but I don't think it helped too much!

A few days later and we had the opportunity of another game so we had a go at Leslies moor, a fictitious battle set in Borchester, the home of the Archers, a long running soap opera on BBC radio 4, I admit I'm old enough to listen to radio 4 but I can't say I'm a fan! This time I added some flags, they may be the wrong flags butI was once again the royalists and once again unsuccessful! It was all pretty even until Des got a breakthrough and most of my central pike and shot units collapsed,  I was able to pull it back to a degree but in the end Parliament was successful, it didn't help that in one go for my 3 activations I drew 3 aces!

Still, great fun and we are going to have another go and swap sides this time. I  need to paint up some more horse regiments, I only have 1 and have had to pinch the rest from my Covenanter army,I also need to paint up a cuirassier unit or two and some dragoons, they will all be assembled and pushed into the painting que, not that there is much painting going on at the moment, there is a  couple of posts of painted figures waiting for me to finish them up but for the moment it's gaming and prepping /assembly, mostly another big block of Swiss pike (quite a lot of conversions) and 5 units of gendarmes, 3 units of which need a  bit of converting. Of course I've also signed up to do a terrain challenge (see Dave's Wargamesculpture blog) for the next couple of months, so I'd better get on with that too!
All the best Iain