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on: May 06, 2023, 10:10:36 AM
Today's coronation got me to thinking...


who is the most recent historical royal to be pictured in a wargame?

Not talking about something like QE2 on a status marker or something.  I'm looking for an actual playable unit counter in a game, like King Richard in the Crusader Rex game from Columbia Games.


Is there a Prince Harry counter in an Afghanistan game, or anyone from the Falklands?  I doubt there's a QE2 "ambulance driver" counter in a WW2 game, but I'm happy to be wrong.
Pretty sure Queen Victoria never made it into combat anywhere.


Anyone know?

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Reply #1 on: May 06, 2023, 10:14:47 AM
There may be a Charles the First counter in an ECW game somewhere, and I seem to recall a couple of games on the Jacobite Rebellion that may have featured a king or two, or possible a 'might-be-king' in the form of 'Bonnie Prince Charles, who would, had circumstance been different, have been crowned as Charles III.

Stop press - I just thought of the game Lilliburlero by 'Against the Odds', the topic being the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. It has counters for both James II and William III.
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Reply #2 on: May 06, 2023, 10:56:43 AM

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Reply #3 on: May 06, 2023, 11:02:29 AM
I don't have it, but I have read that its a very good game, and it does actually cover both the Boyne and the Battle of Aughrim.

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Reply #4 on: May 06, 2023, 03:30:03 PM
There was a set of zombie Prince Albert and Queen Victoria minis you could get for Zombicide.  I don't think they were official game products though, just 3rd party stuff.


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Reply #5 on: May 06, 2023, 03:30:55 PM
...we are not even faintly amused................ ;D

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Reply #6 on: May 07, 2023, 07:13:56 AM

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Reply #7 on: May 07, 2023, 08:05:56 AM
Quote from: bob48 on May 07, 2023, 07:13:56 AM
Yeah, but have you actually played it yet?


pffft....  Of course not!   ;D

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Reply #8 on: May 07, 2023, 09:54:47 AM
Tsk! Such a waste  >:(

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Reply #9 on: May 09, 2023, 02:59:48 PM
You have King Charles in GMT's "Unhappy King Charles".


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Reply #10 on: May 09, 2023, 04:16:15 PM
That, of course, being Charles I :-)

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Reply #11 on: May 09, 2023, 04:29:07 PM
Sort of along these lines, but the new Deluxe version of Cruel Necessity is about to hit landfall, if it has not already. I went in to back it so hopefully it'll show up in the next few weeks. It's just a rebranding of the old classic game dealing with the little tiff about the English Civil Wars.

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Reply #12 on: May 09, 2023, 04:34:10 PM
I'll be interested to see what you think of it.

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Reply #13 on: May 09, 2023, 05:37:43 PM
Can't wait for the updated Cruel Necessity to arrive. The original one is a great game.

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Reply #14 on: May 16, 2023, 08:16:58 PM
I remember reading that George I or George II was the last English/British monarch to lead on the battlefield (Minden, 1740?), so that's most likely it.


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