Pillage, not just for the Dark Ages?

I'm enjoying Victrix's Pillage rules, and am already working on my Normans, however it occurred to me that this is a game I could use for skirmishes outside the Dark ages timeframe.  The game is pretty good for any ancient or medieval period.  

Pillage has quite generic weapons rules, and troops are classed as unarmoured, partly armoured or fully armoured.  It seems to me that the type of "armour" part of that, depends on the period.  Fully armoured for the Wars of the Roses is not the same as fully armoured for the Bronze Age, but can be easily interpreted within the same timeframe.

A few of my coffee shop notes.

 

Wars of the Roses

Small scale skirmish along the lines of "The Black Arrow".  A pair of local Lords supporting different sides, or just wanting to attack each other, could work well.

100yrs War

I have a large setup of the Agincourt period Perry Miniatures in Cyprus.  Fabulous figures.  I'm thinking of games along the lines of "Sir Nigel" or "The White Company." 

Bronze Age raiders

I've already gamed the Libyans raiding an Egyptian outpost.  Great fun.  No cavalry, but all I did to add chariots was put in a house rule that they can't cross obstacles.  Worked well.

Greek hoplite?

I'm skeptical that phalanx warfare can be simulated by these (or any other rules in my experience) but how about Aetolian javelin-men raiding an enemy camp, or psiloi fights in general.  Yeah, not convinced!

Marian Roman?

See my comments above.

Celt on Celt

The Tain, endemic Irish cattle raiding with heroes on chariots, or just Celtic British or Gallic tribes raiding each other.  Has possibilities.

Fall of Rome

Maybe less for the Romans but the "barbarians?" I think it would work well.  Warfare involving raiding Goths or Franks.

The Water Margin

Chinese bandit raids or fighting between different prefectures.  Could work.

Seven Samurai

Actually a lot of small scale Samurai games could work using Pillage.

Border Reiver 

Some house rules for the guns and it would be perfect

1147 and the Anarchy

Not much of a stretch from the 11th century Normans, and some good cavalry action!

Normans in Ireland

A favourite period of mine. I'm busy collecting an Irish force to push Strongbow out of the holy land of Erin. 

Percy vs Douglas

More specifically I'm thinking about Harry Hotspur and Archibald 4th Earl of Douglas.  A series of border skirmishes and raids, both sides trying to grab ab opposing character as a "prize." 

The Welsh Marches

To be honest I would use my Scots as Welsh and there is a lot of raiding to cover.  Hotspur was Lord of the Matches in Flintshire too, or for an earlier period with land grabbing castle building Normans against the locals.

Normans in the South

This is 11th Century of course, but the nature of the D'Hautville's campaigning lends itself to this sort of game.  Bring in Byzantines, Lombards, Swabian mercenaries, Varangians and the Sicilian Arabs and it's quite a prospect.

That's my "notes from the Coffee shop" but I'm sure more will occur to me.