The League of Augsburg
The Battle of Aughrim 1691-2016 325th Anniversary
I am delighted to feature a post by Alan Larsen explaining the role his Re-enactor group 'The Troop' played in the commendable commemorative event which took place in the Summer of 2016.
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| Photo: John Finnerty (By permission) |
As many readers will know, Aughrim tends to be the forgotten major action of the Williamite Wars in Ireland. This is quite remarkable given that it was a larger and more decisive...
Battle of Reunion Concluding Part - Bob's view - The Williamites speak out
Toggy walks us through his conclusions about BLB3, the Reunion Priory scenario and gaming with an army composed entirely of Raw Williamite troops....
An eagerly awaited game with Barry and Dave and another chance to play test the latest version of BLB which we had briefly played at Claymore in August.
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| A hard fighting Enniskillener from Warfare Miniatures |
An eagerly awaited game with Barry and Dave and another chance to play test the latest version of BLB which we had briefly played at Claymore in August.
As usual a very simple looking table, a ruin...
Battle of Reunion Part 5: Dave's Debrief - The Jacobite view
Dave O'Brien walks us through his conclusions about BLB3, the Reunion Priory scenario and gaming with the Jacobites..
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| soon to be no more - the dragoon advanced guard unit |
Not having really gamed together for about a year apart from putting on demo games at shows I was
really looking forward to this game with Barry and Bob especially as we would be using BLB3 which
we had first tried out at the...
GUEST POST: Mark is STILL marching.. into poverty?
For a variety of reasons (mostly my fault) a standard bearer for the 17th century - Mark Shearwood's piece on building a multi use force had been delayed... sorry Mark. Here, Mark continues with his tales of triumph and challenge building armies in the 17th century...
Now in my mind there are generally two schools of thought, the first that...
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| The Earl of Antrim's Regiment from Mark's collection |
Paint your wagon.. WLOA944.. lovely job!
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| beautiful effect with the wood grain |
I wanted to share this fantastic version of WLOA944 painted by Nick Armiger in New Zealand. He has used the Foundry triad combinations to get an amazing effect on the piece.
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| great contrast between wood and canvas |
Nick used peaty brown B for bringing out the grain, charcoal black B with a wash of dark tone and all three boneyard colours for the tarp.
He is going to...
Warfare Miniatures Big Russian Battalion by Der Alte Fritz
Jim Purky is doing some sterling work with our new GNW figures right now. We've already seen his Swedes and now Jim has just sent me some wonderful pictures of his Russians.
Again he has gone for big units and the 3 deep 'illusion' which works very well on this spacing and depth of base.
The mixture of poses has given a very realistic look to the unit. although I often favour a closer spacing...
Scottish Battlefields Trust 2016 Wargaming event
Warwick Louth a trustee of the SBT explains the thinking behind a new wargaming event to be held at the famous location of Prestonpans near Edinburgh......
Churchill once said “Battles are the punctuation marks of history”. Naturally, as wargamers, our interest gravitates towards military history, with miniature battlefields accurately researched down to the smallest detail to attempt to replicate...
Jim Purky moves on to Swedish cavalry
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| nice shot of the charge |
Moving on from Jim's previous post featuring a fine unit of Swedish GNW infantry here are some shots of a unit of cavalry and very fine they are!
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| The deep bases create some wonderful movement |
Jim has opted for the deep basing I myself prefer which permits a nice arrangement of the horse relative to each other. He has contrasted the traditional blue and yellow colour combo with...
Jim Purky's BIG unit of Swedes
Jim Purky needs no introduction in the world of Horse and Musket wargaming so I won't try here, if you don't know about Old Fritz then search out his German 'alte' ego and see what he has been up to for a long time.
Jim has become very engaged with Warfare Miniatures Great Northern War project and recently sent me some fine pictures of his newly completed unit of the celebrated Upplands Regiment.
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Enniskillen and Derry - The personal journey of a fellow enthusiast - Part 4
Friend of the Blog - Peter shares with us all his exciting visit to many of the locations featured in the forthcoming LoA Campaign book for Ireland...
With the 200thanniversary of Waterloo and the Barry Hilton week-long battlefield walk as referenced elsewhere on this blog, no doubt Mr Hilton will mention the glorious role played by both regiments right in the heart of the action at Waterloo! The...
1701 GNW game: Dannie's Duna Delight!
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| Crossing the Duna, July 1701 |
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| Is is possible NOT to like pontoon bridges? |
Enniskillen and Derry - The personal journey of a fellow enthusiast - Part 3
Friend of the Blog - Peter shares with us all his exciting visit to many of the locations featured in the forthcoming LoA Campaign book for Ireland...
Once these protestant undertakers or servitors had arrived and taken over their lands, all was changed, changed utterly for these indigenous Irish people whose way of life would never be the same again.
Once these protestant undertakers or servitors had arrived and taken over their lands, all was changed, changed utterly for these indigenous Irish people whose way of life would never be the same again.
It is interesting to see how important the Irish...