An Irish Confederate Army

I suppose it was inevitable. Parliamentarian Army ✓, Royalist Army ✓, Army of the Solemn League and Covenant ✓, Montrose's Royalist Army ✓, all completed. Irish Confederate is missing. The Wars of the Three Kingdoms is a catch all term that covers a whole host of conflicts that took place (mostly) in the area of the geographical British Isles in the 1640s and 50s. The Irish component was the Eleven Years War, or the Irish Confederacy War. Not a great deal is known about the Confederate Army (in comparison to say the Royalist and Parliamentarian armies, and let's be brutally honest here and admit that there are massive gaps in our knowledge about those armies) so a fair bit of conjecture will need to be applied. WargamerFact™ would have you believe that the Irish were unskilled raw men from bottom to top. However, many of the Confederate officers had learnt pike and shot tactics fighting for the Spanish in the 30YW, they demonstrated these skills soundly beating the Covenanter a