The League of Augsburg
Fate, Fortune or Faithlessness? Camaret Bay 18th June, 1694: Part 4
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| A map drawn up to wargame the action |
It does sound unmistakably like D-Day. It took place around 200 miles from and almost exactly 250 years to the day before Operation Overlord as, although the date is now noted at June 18th the old style calendar marks it as June 6th or 7thin most sources. The action can be fought in various ways; as a large scale battle, as a skirmish or...
Fate, Fortune or Faithlessness? Camaret Bay June 18th, 1694. Part 3
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| Possibly Lord Carmarthen running the Gullet |
Consequence of perfidy
When the Allied fleet arrived in Camaret Bay it immediately came under fire from the forts around Camaret village and those at Bertheaume Bay on the northern shore opposite. The plan was for men o’ war to run the narrow channel called the ‘Gullet’ between the two headlands and sail into the anchorage at Brest. This gap was exactly...
Fate, Fortune or Faithlessness? Camaret Bay 18th June, 1694 Part 2
The Mission – Destroy Brest!
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| D-Day 300 years before it happened. Camaret Bay was an exptremely ambitious plan |
The raid was a large scale affair for an action of its type. It was months in the planning with the objective of wreaking havoc on a key strategic anchorage for the French fleet at the port of Brest in western Brittany. Naval bombardments of French ports had been undertaken before, one such...
Fate, Fortune or Faithlessness? Camaret Bay 18th June, 1694 Part 1
This piece was first run in Wargames Illustrated in 2016. I thought it a solid multi-parter to run on the blog whilst I am holidaying.
Contemporaneous notoriety
The disastrous attack at Camaret Bay on June 18th1694 was a very English tragedy. From a distance of 322 years it is easy to understand that a relatively minor operation which went badly wrong and resulted in the death of a largely forgotten...
Tocht naar Chatham 1667 - The 28mm bit begins
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| The first unit of Dutch Marines - uniform colours from colonial naval infantry of the same period. |
Having co written Donnybrook and produced an as yet unpublished extension for Beneath the Lily Banners dealing with small unit actions it was always the plan to deal with some of the 1667 Medway fighting in 28mm.
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| Other units will have different flags |
There appears to be no concensus regarding the long...
New in the shop from Warfare Miniatures
Some new stuff which can be found in the shop:
A Cossack unit equivalent to an infantry battalion. It contains three packs of Cossacks advancing (COS01) with musket and one Command pack (COS02). Price is £31 ex postage. The flag is not included nor or are the bases.The unit pictured has 18 models but there are 20 models in the battalion pack.
Second up, I have a limited number of the excellent...
A Cossack unit equivalent to an infantry battalion. It contains three packs of Cossacks advancing (COS01) with musket and one Command pack (COS02). Price is £31 ex postage. The flag is not included nor or are the bases.The unit pictured has 18 models but there are 20 models in the battalion pack.
Second up, I have a limited number of the excellent...
Ray's Request - Donnybrook Ottomans and Donnybrook force offer
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| Janissary Vets face European cavalry |
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| An Ottoman Wagonburg bristling with menace - Come and get us! |
Ray Roussell blames me for his Donnybrook addiction. I know the term lead pusher could have a totally different meaning in the context of selling minis as opposed to playing with them. I am however probably answerable to both descriptions.
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| Four ELITE Janissaries with flintlocks and an Officer character |
A...
Pardon the Interruption
Clarence Harrison - It has been a very long time since I've posted. In fact I haven't really painted anything since.. err.. last November! I don't ever remember sitting out of the hobby for that long. There have been other things going on in my life and it seems like when I've had free time, the painting desk just wasn't calling to me.
As Barry has mentioned, I've been working on artwork for Talon...
As Barry has mentioned, I've been working on artwork for Talon...
I painted them thar Ottermans
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| Code OT07 Tufeckci firing |
I know, several months late. C minus on report card and detention for me. Nevertheless, painting these thirty models in five days was not as onerous a chore as it may at first sound.
They were really fun to do. The sculpting is wonderful and the poses interesting and natural.
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| Code OT12 Bosniaks/Irregulars loading |
I used the following speedy method:
1. Hand brushed white...
Breaking the surface.. news on the GNW supplement
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| Mass charge by Polish cavalry 1683 |
My snorkel has just broken the surface as I come up for air before submerging again into SALUTE 19 on Friday and Saturday.
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| Brunswick-Celle infantry 1690s |
I have not been blogging with regularity over the last three weeks simply because I have snatched every waking hour to finish off the last photos for the new GNW supplement for Beneath the Lily Banners.
The shot...
A most remarkable army.. Kuruc 1703-1711
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| An Osprey style compilation of Kuruc forces on the march mixing phases of its existence |
The by ways of the late 17th century and early 18th provide magnificently juicy brain food for wargamers. Although I had in passing, read about the Kuruc Rebellion in Hungary during the first decade of the 18th century I had gone no further than a quick skim of what it was all about.
During the compilation of...
Salute 2019 Pre-order discount
No, I can't believe it either. SALUTE 2019 is in about four weeks. Somewhere in my head I could hear a voice saying, you'd better start planning for SALUTE which is in a couple of months.
Anyway, enough of this already. Here is a special offer for any products pre-ordered for SALUTE.
Pre-order any quantity of the following products from our range ; Figures, Books, Flags and get them at a 10%...