The League of Augsburg
Enniskillen and Derry - The personal journey of a fellow enthusiast - Part 2
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...
The flag of St George flies over the twin towers of the Watergate. A reminder of the town’s fierce loyalty to William and the Protestant cause. These turrets with their conical caps are instantly recognizable and have long been the...
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| Enniskillen Castle |
Enniskillen and Derry - The personal journey of a fellow enthusiast - Part 1
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...
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| Enniskillen castle |
Shakespeare’s Prince of Denmark could as easily have been describing Ireland’s long history of troubles. Ireland is green, so green in the rain and a cold wind...
Poverty in wargaming can be overcome!
The thoughts and ambitions of a poor wargamer aka Mark Shearwood.. a sad tale which we can all relate to!
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| The kind of low budget stuff you can expect from Mark |
Of rivers, canals, pontoons and bridges
Friend of the Blog Peter A has penned a really nice piece on the importance of rivers in the warfare of our period.
Rivers were crucial in 17th/18th century warfare. They provided the means of transporting supplies, troops, weapons, ammunition, artillery and livestock - the full panoply of war! With the un-metalled roads so poor and often only usable for the brief campaigning season of April to...
Louis XIV, Vauban and Bayonne Part 2 by Peter Allport
You can see the first part of Peter's article here!
Peter Allport- This life-size equestrian statue of Louis XIV is in St Jean de Luz in south west France. It is rather hidden away in a narrow corridor at the entrance to the small Hotel de Ville. It is not prominently out in the square opposite the house where Louis stayed in 1660 before, during and after his marriage to the Spanish Infanta,...
Peter Allport- This life-size equestrian statue of Louis XIV is in St Jean de Luz in south west France. It is rather hidden away in a narrow corridor at the entrance to the small Hotel de Ville. It is not prominently out in the square opposite the house where Louis stayed in 1660 before, during and after his marriage to the Spanish Infanta,...
Hugging the Huguenots - My new wargaming passion Part 5
Colin Napier - Maybe it’s a reflection of my personality, perhaps a result of a childhood spent under the leaden skies of Western Scotland, but I’ve always felt an affinity with grey. Just as well when it comes to Huguenots as that’s the primary shade of their coats.
With that determined the next step is to decide what colour the cuffs should be. There is little easily accessible information on...
WARFARE MINIATURES - The collection of Steve Shann
Steve Shann has been a real patron of Warfare Miniatures right from the start and helped the range get established by buying in quantity.. thanks Steve!
Having seen some of his work in photographs on his own blog (Nations in Arms) I asked Steve if he would bring along his magnificent collection for a bit of a 'lend' at Partizan 1, Newark in May 2013. He very kindly agreed and what a treat we...
WARFARE MINIATURES - The collection of Steve Shann
Steve Shann has been a real patron of Warfare Miniatures right from the start and helped the range get established by buying in quantity.. thanks Steve!
Having seen some of his work in photographs on his own blog (Nations in Arms) I asked Steve if he would bring along his magnificent collection for a bit of a 'lend' at Partizan 1, Newark in May 2013. He very kindly agreed and what a treat we...
Hugging the Huguenots - My new wargaming passion Part 2
Colin Napier continues to chart the footprints of French Huguenots.
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| De La Meloniere's Regiment painted by Clarence Harrison with flags from Quindia Studios |
As ever with the past it’s complicated especially when seen through the clouded, at times heated, prism of 300 years of opinion. I’m no historian and have little time to spend with tertiary and secondary sources let alone mucking about with the...
Hugging the Huguenots - My new wargaming passion Part 1
Colin Napier explains how he came to love his Huguenot Brigade!
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| Divine inspiration! Bob Talbot's lovely Regiment Du Cambon |
Call me soppy, call me naive (trust me I’ve been called a lot worse at home) but I firmly believe that at heart wargamers are gentle, romantic souls. Why else would they spend their time refighting long forgotten wars; researching failed causes and ineffectual dramatic gestures;...
One man's story.. Building the Saxon Army for the Great Northern War Part 3
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| Holding back the blue waves at Klissow |
Günter Heim - What Clarence achieved within a few weeks of labour on the Saxon flags stunned me and can now be seen in the Shop now. With his help and by his requests for further information we discovered certain details which I missed in my research.
So, after the figures and flags have been in the process of being painted and created I could now focus on...
One man's story.. Building the Saxon Army for the Great Northern War Part 2
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| Hordes of Saxon Kürassier at Klissow 1702 |