Black Powder for Glorious Revolution

As a club we are quite taken with the Black Powder rules published by Warlord Games and have been tinkering with them for Pike and Shot. Below are the stats we use for the Glorious Revolution, or Nine Years War period, specifically for the wars in Ireland

BASIC RESTRICTIONS

No double or triple movement within 12” (engagement range) of formed infantry

All units get first fire advantage, Platoon firers get the chance to re roll one failed firing die per turn

For a failed command roll raw units may not move at all, , any other units will move 2” for a failed command roll

No voluntary interpenetration is allowed, troops may only flow round friends if there is a gap at least a base width. Any other interpenetration will cause disorder to both units.

Orders may be given to brigades or individual units. Should a unit be asked to include any other movement than moving forward it must be given an individual order.

Any order requiring a unit to wheel, retrograde or incline must be separate, thus a unit with three orders may move forward for one, wheel for one then move forward once more. Thus each manoeuvre will require a separate order.

SIZE OF UNITS
Type of troops	Standard size	Large	Small	Tiny
Infantry	18 (three bases)	24+	12-18	5-6
Cavalry	6 (two bases)	9+	3
Artillery	1 gun and crew

COMMAND MODIFIERS
Per 8” distance from commander to unit	-1
Enemy unit within 8” of unit receiving order	-1
Column, limbered artillery	+1
Column, limbered artillery on road or track	+2

MOVEMENT
	Command roll -3 or more	Command roll = or -2	Command roll = or -1	Charge
Infantry, limbered artillery, wagons	12”	8”	4”	6”
Cavalry,	22”	16”	10”	18”
Manhandled light artillery	6”	4”	2”	-
Commmanders on foot	12”	-	-	-
Commanders mounted	18”	-	-	-

SHOOTING
Ranges
Pistols and thrown weapons					4”
Bow and arrow					8”
Muskets					8”
Light artillery					24”/12”/6””
Artillery					32”/16”/8”
Shooting to hit modifiers
Artillery shooting at column or square						+1
Close range (4”), closing fire, skirmishers						+1
Shooters Shaken or Disordered						-1
Target skirmishers, deployed artillery or Not Clear						-1
Artillery at over half range						-1
Cannon shooting overhead						-1
Size modifiers
Large Unit	+1 dice shooting			+2 combat
Small Unit	-1 dice shooting			-2 combat
Tiny Unit	1 dice only shooting			1 dice only combat
All musket unit	+1 dice shooting
Platoon Firers	May re roll one failed firing die per turn
Formation modifiers
Column		May not shoot		Fight 1 dice
Square		Shoot 1 dice		Fight 2 dice per face
Tactical modifiers
Enfilading infantry			Shoot X2 dice
Enfilading artillery			Shoot X2 dice

MORALE
Save modifiers
Infantry in column unless hit by artillery	+1
Target within woods, hedgerows or similar (light cover)	+1
Target within buildings/fortifications (heavy cover)	+2
Hit by artillery fire at long range	-1
Hit by artillery at medium or close range	-2
Target in melee with mounted includes pikes	+1

MELEE
Combat to hit modifiers
Charging	+1
Won last round of combat	+1
Pikes in unit (first round only)	+1
Shaken or disordered	-1
Skirmishers	-1
Engaged to flank or rear	-1
Combat result modifiers
Support to rear (friendly unit charging with chargers and within 6” of enemy contacted)	+1
Square vs cavalry	+3
Per flank support (charging with chargers and threatening enemy in combat, within 6”)	+1
Occupying buildings (size)	1-3

UNIT STATS

Unit	Type		Melee	Shooting	Morale	Stamina	Special
Foot Guards	Elite	Rank firers	7	3	3+	4	Crack Reliable Steady
Veteran British Infantry	Elite	Platoon firers	6	3	4+	3	Reliable Steady
British Infantry	Line	Platoon firers	6	3	4+	3	Reliable Steady
Dutch Guards	Guards	Platoon firers	7	3	3+	4	Crack Reliable Steady Elite
Dutch, Danish Infantry	Line	Platoon firers	6	3	4+	3	Reliable Steady
French infantry	Line	Rank firers	6	3	4+	3	Reliable Steady
Old Irish Infantry	Line	Rank firers	6	3	4+	3	Reliable Steady
Newly raised Irish infantry	Raw	Rank firers	5	2	5+	2	Unreliable Freshly Raised
Williamite Cavalry	Line		7	1	4+	3	Reliable Steady Stubborn
Jacobite, French cavalry	Line		7	1	4+	3	Reliable Steady Superbly drilled

First Fire	+1 dice on first shot of battle
Crack	Re-roll one failed morale save if you have no casualties already
Reliable	+1 command
Steady	Passes first break test of the battle
Elite	Overcome disorder at start of command on roll of 4+
Tough fighters	Re-roll one missed combat attack
Unreliable	No move on equal command roll
Stubborn	Re-roll one failed morale save
Superbly drilled	Free move if command failed
Marauders	Ignore distance modifiers for command
Freshly raised	First shot or melee, roll 1XD6 1 Terror-all shots and melee dice require 6 to hit 2-3 Panic- all shots and melee dice require 6 to hit 4-5 Sterling Job-no adverse effects 6 Huzzah-1 extra dice for shooting or melee this turn

Examples for the Jacobite wars in ireland:

Elite British units would include Senior infantry regiments such as Kirke’s Lambs, Dumbartons (Royal Scots), Footguards and Cavalry Lifeguard.

Guard status would be reserved for the Dutch Gard de Voet and Danish garden til Fods.

The majority of Jacobite regiments in Ireland would be Raw with some of the more senior regiments, such as The Grand Priors Regiment would be Line. Thus for each three raw units one may be line or better.