I’ve been working out the orbat of the Royalist army for the One Hour Wargame solo project today. The core of the army is the five regiments of foot raised in 1642 including Sir Nicolas Slanning’s, Colonel Johnny Trevanion’s, Colonel William Godolphin’s, Sir Neville Grenville’s and Lord Mohun’s regiments. 

These varied in size, so I will use a mix of three and four pike and shot blocks on each regimental base. I will also include a base of the less reliable and rather grumpy Cornish Trained Bands, who were under equipped and less enthusiastic than the volunteers. 

I will also include two regiments of cavakry to represent Sir John Berkeley’s and Sir Thomas Digby’s horse, although both commanded foot units at various times as well. There is also a unit of dragoons under Sir John Digby. The artillery is only one base in strength, as the Cornish army was quite weak in this respect. 

This lot adds up to about twelve bases from which up to six can be selected or randomly chosen for each game, the default number in the One Hour Wargames rules. I’m also going to use the Horse and Musket variant if the rules, at least to start with, so that I can include skirmishing dragoons and the artillery, both of which are not featured in the Pike and Shot set up for some inexplicable reason.