The League of Augsburg
Wandering Around Ireland, Part V
Clarence Harrison - A conversation I had via Messenger last week...
"Are you ever going to finish blogging about your Ireland trip?"
"What? Didn't I finish it? That was a year ago..."
"Didn't you go the Boyne?"
"Son of a..."
So, yes. Roughly one year ago I took a trip to Scotland to play some games with toy soldiers and then on a boy's adventure outing to Ireland (you can find the other installments he...
"Are you ever going to finish blogging about your Ireland trip?"
"What? Didn't I finish it? That was a year ago..."
"Didn't you go the Boyne?"
"Son of a..."
So, yes. Roughly one year ago I took a trip to Scotland to play some games with toy soldiers and then on a boy's adventure outing to Ireland (you can find the other installments he...
The Cock of the North, Part Four
Clarence Harrison- Well, that was fun! Running a game for players who have no experience with a rule set is always tricky. You can spend a lot of time bogged down in tedious explanations of mechanics and the minutia of the charts and discover that no one remembers it all anyway, or you can just dive in. I explained that the troops mostly use d6s or d8s to resolve their actions (a concept they WERE...
The Cock of the North, Part Three
Clarence Harrison - Turns five through seven saw the action heat up as both sides began to make more aggressive moves.
Sir Arthur attempts to dazzle his opponent with a double order deployment in hopes of confusing his foe...
Unfazed, General Hamilton responds by trying to blind his opponent...
In the center of the field, Captain Magill's Dragoons crash into the second squadron of Tyrconnel's Horse....
The Cock of the North, Part Two
Clarence Harrison- For the initial deployment, I placed the Foot of the Protestant Association in the village of Dromore, and left it up to the players to deploy their Horse and Dragoons as they saw fit. With Hamilton not yet on the field, Chris played Colonel Dominic Sheldon who had command of Tyrconnel's three squadrons of Horse, with Jim in command of Sir Neil O'Neill's two squadrons of...
The Cock of the North, Part Two
Clarence Harrison- For the initial deployment, I placed the Foot of the Protestant Association in the village of Dromore, and left it up to the players to deploy their Horse and Dragoons as they saw fit. With Hamilton not yet on the field, Chris played Colonel Dominic Sheldon who had command of Tyrconnel's three squadrons of Horse, with Jim in command of Sir Neil O'Neill's two squadrons of...
The Cock of the North, Part One
Clarence Harrison- I had the opportunity to run a pre-release game of Beneath the Lily Banners/The War of Three Kings for some friends last weekend. They hadn't played any of the previous versions and were unfamiliar with the period, though eager to give it a try - and I was eager to see what they thought. When trying to decide on exactly what game to run, I turned to the pile of scenarios we have...
The War of Three Kings - It's alive!
We have had a huge response to getting them all out will involve all of the little Hilton Elves being very busy.
A glass of fizz tonight and onwards!
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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...
Where do the forces ideas come from? Part 1
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| Jacobite Foot Guards and Grand Prior's Regiments - stalwarts of King James's Irish Army |
Our Battle for Britain campaign has been running for a year now and in campaign terms we have come two years from the beginning of 1692 till the end of 1693. We've fought four major battles and twelve minor ones together with countless 'on paper' skirmishes and expeditions.
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| French Expeditionary Force in England... |
Champions of Pike & Shot 1: Mark Shearwood
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| Siege of Athlone 1691 - wonderful solo effort by Mark |
I decided to highlight the work of fellow gamers who I feel make a significant contribution to the popularity of the period 1660-1720. Mark Shearwood's output is both prodigious and high quality.
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| Meanwhile back in Brixham 1688 - Kidnapping King James |
Mark has produced imaginative and inspiring games which have appeared at various shows mostly in...
Wandering Around Ireland, Part IV
Clarence Harrison - More on my trip to the Old Country... You thought I'd forgotten about this didn't you? I've just been super busy and these kinds of posts are much more of a time investment than the 'look what I just painted' type (though I've had precious few of those too). The first part of this day saw us around Newtown Butler and Athlone, but the rest was spent around Aughrim!
Again let me...
Again let me...