The League of Augsburg
Practice Race German Grand Prix 1694
Toggy and I ran the race today: 10 Turns, 4 competitors and all to play for!
The objective is to breach the French defences and capture their Marshal in the camp at the far end of the table.The game is played long ways on an 8 x 6. The player forces were as follows:
Imperialists: 4 squadrons of Drilled Cuirassiers
Prussians: 4 squadrons of Veteran Dragoons
Saxons: 4 squadrons of Drilled Cuirassiers
Bav...
Irish Militia
Clarence Harrison- One of the new things in Beneath the Lily Banners: The War of Three Kings, is the ability to model different pike to shot ratios on the tabletop. I'm running a game for some friends early next month and I had everything I needed for the scenario except a unit of All Pike. It's been on my 'to do' list for a while to paint a brigade of non-uniformed troops to use for the early war...
The Great German Grand Prix 1694 - LoA TACTICA 2018
During the Nine Years War 1688-1697 many German speaking states fought as part of the Grand Alliance against Louis XIV’s mighty France. Although German troops fought in Flanders they also served in the Rhine lands and elsewhere.
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| Rough shot of how the GREAT RACE will look |
Our game is set near the Rhine. The army of the Grand Alliance wants to capture a heavily protected French camp lying at the end...
Warfare Miniatures: Prussians and Danes 1700-1721
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| Danish Marching Command pack |
Clibinarium has been busy producing what I would describe as the 'bridge' figures between our Great Northern War and War of the Spanish Succession collections.
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| Prussian Command pack rear view |
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| Prussian Command Marching |
Primarily these codes were designed to complete the nations of the GNW giving us Swedes, Russians/Saxons, Danes and Brandenburgers /Prussians.
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| Prussian... |
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
A few weeks ago, Barry and I hooked up with Rob Rhodes on the History to Wargames podcast to talk about Beneath the Lily Banners, Donnybrook, and the League of Augsburg...
History to Wargames Podcast
Notice that Barry was introduced as MY sidekick, which has got to be the first time that's happened...
The War of Three Kings - "How is this game different?"
Before talking about what's new, let's look at some things that stayed the same...
Unit Organization
For the most part, units are organized in the same manner they've always been - three stands for a battalion of Foot and two stands for a squadron of Horse. Those of you with existing armies will easily make the transition, while those new to the period will have clear guidelines to get stuck in....
The War of Three Kings - "How is this game different?"
Before talking about what's new, let's look at some things that stayed the same...
Unit Organization
For the most part, units are organized in the same manner they've always been - three stands for a battalion of Foot and two stands for a squadron of Horse. Those of you with existing armies will easily make the transition, while those new to the period will have clear guidelines to get stuck in....
The War of Three Kings - "What's up with the name?"
The War of Three Kings - "So what took you so long?"
Beneath the Lily Banners: The War of Three Kings
Don't mind me, I'll just leave this here...
More soon...
Lots of Dragoons
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| Painted as Hanoverian Dragoons - WLOA58 and WLOA60 |
I have been slow off the mark painting and basing my dragoons but the new codes have sold very well so far despite having no oxygen of publicity.
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| Painted as Enniskillen Dragoons 1689-1692 WLOA58 & WLOA60 |
So, time to give them a little ventilation and let everyone see how they look in nice units. Painted by myself, Toggy, Rob Goodier and Jim Masson...
League of Augsburg game Crisis 2017
We had decided well in advance that our Crisis game for 2017 would be modest in size but pretty. There was no need to try and take a massive game by car to Antwerp as we already knew that Jon Sutherland would be running his monster Poltava game adjacent to our table. Running another GNW effort would simply have been overkill so we chose Flanders sometime between 1692 and 1695 for our effort.
Anothe...