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Title: English Monarchy and Wargames
Post by: bayonetbrant 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?
Title: Re: English Monarchy and Wargames
Post by: bob48 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.
Title: Re: English Monarchy and Wargames
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 06, 2023, 10:56:43 AM: I even have Liliburlero!

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/articles/reviews/unbox/unboxingday-liliburlero-by-against-the-odds-magazine/
Title: Re: English Monarchy and Wargames
Post by: bob48 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.
Title: Re: English Monarchy and Wargames
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot 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.
Title: Re: English Monarchy and Wargames
Post by: bob48 on May 06, 2023, 03:30:55 PM: ...we are not even faintly amused................ ;D
Title: Re: English Monarchy and Wargames
Post by: bob48 on May 07, 2023, 07:13:56 AM: Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 06, 2023, 10:56:43 AM
I even have Liliburlero!

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/articles/reviews/unbox/unboxingday-liliburlero-by-against-the-odds-magazine/

Yeah, but have you actually played it yet?
Title: Re: English Monarchy and Wargames
Post by: bayonetbrant 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
Title: Re: English Monarchy and Wargames
Post by: bob48 on May 07, 2023, 09:54:47 AM: Tsk! Such a waste >:(
Title: Re: English Monarchy and Wargames
Post by: Germanmenace1 on May 09, 2023, 02:59:48 PM: You have King Charles in GMT's "Unhappy King Charles".
Title: Re: English Monarchy and Wargames
Post by: bob48 on May 09, 2023, 04:16:15 PM: That, of course, being Charles I :-)
Title: Re: English Monarchy and Wargames
Post by: BanzaiCat 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.
Title: Re: English Monarchy and Wargames
Post by: bob48 on May 09, 2023, 04:34:10 PM: I'll be interested to see what you think of it.
Title: Re: English Monarchy and Wargames
Post by: bbmike 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.
Title: Re: English Monarchy and Wargames
Post by: Putraack 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.
Title: Re: English Monarchy and Wargames
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on May 17, 2023, 04:16:51 AM: Isn't there a Harry card for Apache/Thunderbolt Leader?
Title: Re: English Monarchy and Wargames
Post by: bob48 on May 17, 2023, 06:48:33 AM: George II. Actually, that would be correct; Battle of Dettingen in 1743.
Title: Re: English Monarchy and Wargames
Post by: Doctor Quest on May 17, 2023, 01:52:21 PM: Isn't that a bit early for Harry?