Musket and Pike series...

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I prefer hexes over squares to but only because to create "wings" or scalate flanks squares are horrible and you need use more troops compared with hexes... but squares are more clear to linear face to face combats.

In art i never use 3D in Tiller part because 2D for me is more clear and i "understand" better what i see and part because in 3D you cant see battalion-regiment-brigade colours very well, you cant use unit bases because they dont have colour and disable them create a big mess of colours when you stack units or you have a big concentration of units. The portraits in REN are very good and i like the use of smaller figures to show the soldier and not only his face like in other Tiller series.

Shot units in REN have the problem that use them in defense is a big problem because they cant work as unit to offer enemy a "fire wall" (even in trenches they are weak) and working as skirmishers overcomplicated their use apart that they are less effective dealing damage but if you dont want expose your weak fire units to enemy assault infantry you need do this.... is true that add skirmishers to block formations to increase the firepower is a good part of engine even when now block formations have the ability to fire but force to much have shot units as skirmisher vending machine EXCEPT the musket units that with a range of 4 are a lot more versatile than arquebus units but they are smaller and less common.

Is interesting know that engine is going to be updated, expect this help REN and the XVII century battles until block formations change to more classic line units (if i dont remember bad Sweden mantein more time the pike even until early XVIII century when rest of european nations discard it for the bayonet).

The good thing with Tiller engine is that you can adapt scale in same title when you need it because you can have diferent PDT files, even one per battle if you need it.

ECWs could be a separate title or could be part of a TYW title but have a new M&P title is a good add and double good add if means improve REN.

Good luck and expect we can know about new title when is in our HDs hehehe.

I might tone down the unitbox and leaderbox that I did for REN (apply some white balance) - to get Joe's figures to stand out a little better. It is decent right now, but I think it can maybe be better.

With only 15 nation slots, one has to be selective when deciding what sides to add.

Personally I don't believe that muskets should have ever had a range of 4 at 100 meters per hex; I don't have the reference in front of me - but from what I have read that muskets in that period and a bit later (matchlocks if you will), were more or less as effective as they were in the Napoleonic Wars - in terms of range -granted they had a different rate of fire, and there were different formations used to increase the volume of fire - but made for deeper (and bigger) targets ... I guess that is about as far as I am going to go on some basic research topics.  I don't actually remember where I saw it, but am relatively certain it is on one of my bookshelves.

And of course my 'excuse' for not being so well read --- it is sort of Mr Peters' (and Mr White's, and Mr Bamford's for that matter) fault .... as I am about halfway through the 4th and final volume of Simon Scarrow's historical fiction twin stories of Wellington and Napoleon ... and I am going to finish it!!! (I sorta have to at this point - it is like a quest) ... before getting going on the other stuff again.