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A precursor to the up and coming "English Civil War"! [:)]
http://www.matrixgames.com/products/683 ... .Civil.War

The English Civil War history...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War

The Aftermath and Rule...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_C ... #Aftermath
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_England
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protectorate

The Trial and Execution of Charles I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Cour ... _Charles_I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I ... #Execution

The exile and reign of his son Charles II...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I ... _and_exile

Please post any other historical sites for the 'The English Civil War' on this thread and recommended reading. Do we have any re-enactment participants here?

Patrick

Looking forward to this one
Thanks for the links

Product page:
"From Scotland to Dover, from Wales to Kent the counties raise their regiments"
That text is just plain weird. Of those places, only Kent is a county, and Dover is within Kent.

According to the Features section, Ireland is excluded (under "Settings") or possibly included (under "Game Map")?

Yes it's weird.

Can Matrix get someone who is probably a UK national - e.g. Loki or Hobbes on the Ageod site, to check for such strangeness which may not matter to some but just looks schoolboy howlerish to others.

I'll post this in the Ageod site too.

ORIGINAL: Mobeer

Product page:
"From Scotland to Dover, from Wales to Kent the counties raise their regiments"
That text is just plain weird. Of those places, only Kent is a county, and Dover is within Kent.

According to the Features section, Ireland is excluded (under "Settings") or possibly included (under "Game Map")?

Why so weird? [&:]

From Scotland to Dover: from north to south

from Wales to Kent: I guess the idea was from west to east. But Kent is in the SE (near Dover).

All four cardinal points that is.

Did I mention it? AGEOD game? It's for me [8D]

ORIGINAL: TulliusDetritus

ORIGINAL: Mobeer

Product page:
"From Scotland to Dover, from Wales to Kent the counties raise their regiments"
That text is just plain weird. Of those places, only Kent is a county, and Dover is within Kent.

According to the Features section, Ireland is excluded (under "Settings") or possibly included (under "Game Map")?

Why so weird? [&:]

From Scotland to Dover: from north to south

from Wales to Kent: I guess the idea was from west to east. But Kent is in the SE (near Dover).

All four cardinal points that is.

Did I mention it? AGEOD game? It's for me [8D]

That's the way I understood it also.

I can see it, too. It's weird phrasing. It would be like saying about the American Civil War, "From Boston to Atlanta, and Los Angeles to Virginia, the states are raising their militia."

I don't know if that exactly captures it, but I would think that was strange.

ORIGINAL: H Gilmer

I can see it, too. It's weird phrasing. It would be like saying about the American Civil War, "From Boston to Atlanta, and Los Angeles to Virginia, the states are raising their militia."

I don't know if that exactly captures it, but I would think that was strange.

Well, US working class troubadour Woody Guthrie disagrees:

"From California to the New York island;
From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me"

Can anyone recommend any other historical sites for the 'The English Civil War' and any recommended reading? Do we have any re-enactment participants here...

Tim Stone/The Flare Path wasn't impressed by the quality of writing in the press release for The English Civil War either.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/0 ... h-flotsam/


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ORIGINAL: XXXCorps

Tim Stone/The Flare Path wasn't impressed by the quality of writing in the press release for The English Civil War either.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/0 ... h-flotsam/


(Scroll down to near the bottom of the article)

Good points...the developers have time on there side to clean it and tweak it up...for the better! [:)]

ORIGINAL: wings7
Good points...the developers have time on there side to clean it and tweak it up...for the better! [:)]

The writer says "it would take more than a typo-strewn web page and a handful of mildly disappointing alpha screenshots to kill my interest in English Civil War".

Well, all I see is the standard AGEOD map. The author prefers a let's say Google Earth map? Good for him. I might hate the maps he loves. So what? Perhaps the difference is that I would never bash the maps I dislike.

Besides, you certainly cannot please everyone.

In the screenshots it appears there is no means to go from Kings Lynn to Boston without visiting Cambridge, Bedford, and Leicester - this journey: map

That's 216 miles in game versus 34 miles by a shorter route not in-game.

ORIGINAL: Mobeer

Product page:
"From Scotland to Dover, from Wales to Kent the counties raise their regiments"
That text is just plain weird. Of those places, only Kent is a county, and Dover is within Kent.

According to the Features section, Ireland is excluded (under "Settings") or possibly included (under "Game Map")?

warspite1

Agreed - that is not very clever. Not very clever at all: a) Mixing countries and counties and towns, and b) if you want to convey the length and breadth of the land why go from Scotland specifically to Dover???

ORIGINAL: Mobeer

In the screenshots it appears there is no means to go from Kings Lynn to Boston without visiting Cambridge, Bedford, and Leicester - this journey: map

That's 216 miles in game versus 34 miles by a shorter route not in-game.

I very much doubt that any general would have considered marching a 17th century army with all it's encumbrances over two river crossings and around the then undrained Wash over the mud tracks that passed for roads in these days. These mud tracks would also have been suited only for local traffic in an era when few people ever travelled more than 10 miles from their birthplace. The longer route was probably much more practical.

It may just be that English isn't the developers first language.

There's a map on the Battlefield Trust website showing roads and marshland at the time. Looks pretty boggy to me trying to get from Kings Lynn to Boston.

This link might work - but go to BattlefieldTrust website anyway for info on the English Civil War

http://www.battlefieldstrust.com/media/309.pdf

ORIGINAL: wings7
Do we have any re-enactment participants here...

I was a Civil War re-enactor for a short time when I was at college. I was a pikeman with Montagu's Regiment of Foote - part of the English Civil War Society (Link). Re-enacting was fun. Like rugby with spears and helmets. [:D]

ORIGINAL: redcoat

ORIGINAL: wings7
Do we have any re-enactment participants here...

I was a Civil War re-enactor for a short time when I was at college. I was a pikeman with Montagu's Regiment of Foote - part of the English Civil War Society (Link). Re-enacting was fun. Like rugby with spears and helmets. [:D]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing! [:)]

ORIGINAL: altipueri

There's a map on the Battlefield Trust website showing roads and marshland at the time. Looks pretty boggy to me trying to get from Kings Lynn to Boston.

This link might work - but go to BattlefieldTrust website anyway for info on the English Civil War

http://www.battlefieldstrust.com/media/309.pdf

Thanks for the link David! Great war info! [:)]