The League of Augsburg

Barry Hilton - This post details two other preliminary Swedish sculpts for the GNW project. This is a privately funded range which will be comprehensive and less conventional than the norm. The 5 Swedish sculpts featured on this post and part 1 were preliminary works which will become commercially available.

Warfare customers who order in the run up to Christmas may find some have crept into their...

Barry Hilton - I was itching to paint these chaps from the minute I saw the sculpts but of course that would have been plain stupid! I received the master cast batches in Antwerp but for various business reasons was unable to get to my painting table until yesterday. I prepped up all 10 and finished 5 - The Swedes.

A walk through each sculpt with some commentary will I think be useful to those...

Barry Hilton - I will be trading as WARFARE MINIATURES at the show and demoing a game for Donnybrook based around the Bokkenrijders.. just to add a little bit of local colour   Anyone going to the show who pre-orders books, figures, shirts or flags with us before the show will get a 10% discount and can pick up on the day!

Adrian's Wallswebsite is now up and running. They specialise in the finest quality impact resistant resin buildings, walls, ramparts, battlements and terrain tiles for the Miniature Warfare enthusiast and gamer and will enable you to purchase all of their items in only one format - PAINTED TO SHOWCASE STANDARD! They believe that you and your painted figures (and vehicles etc) deserve to be able to...

Clibinarium - The Great Northern War is a project that Barry and I have discussed quite a bit over the months, in fact it might be turning in to years now, but since the summer of this year the talk started to get serious. There was always a lot do do for our League of Augsburg range (and there still is), and it always seemed to get in the way of doing anything else as design time is finite....

Bob Miller- Le Roi Soleil will be attending Millenniumcon in Round Rock, Texas over November 8 through 10. We will be bringing the entire line of Warfare Miniatures figures together with the rulebooks "Beneath the Lilly Banners" and "Republic to Empire." We still have a limited supply of LoA markers. We may have some surprises. If you want shirts or to ensure that we have what you want, please...

Clarence Harrison - We're not there yet, but in honor of reaching 100 followers my lovely wife will throw percentile dice to generate a number from 1-100. I will count through the followers list as it appears here on the site and the lucky winner gets a very rare (I don't think Barry even has one) first edition copy of Beneath the Lily Banners!

This is the first book Barry and I worked on together....

The Swedish flags for the GNW are finally ready and should be available from the LoA shop soon.








This release provides all of the foot units that were present at Poltava. The last sheet is actually variations for Skaraborg, Uppland, and Kalmar based on descriptions given by the Russians at Poltava - there are official government versions for these units scattered through the other sheets for those...

Barry Hilton - Although not strictly speaking to do with our chosen blog period I thought it might be useful to give some idea of where I am concentrating my writing efforts outside of the WordTwister context.

I will continue to contribute articles to Wargames Illustratedas per usual. These normally revolve around a specific request for something to fit with a theme the magazine is running or a...

These pikemen are being production moulded now

Barry Hilton- Clibinarium and I have discussed the final look of the Gardes Francaises at length and although we were both delighted with the pikemen, we were not totally comfortable with the musketeers. Clibinarium himself will post about the evolution of the musketeer sculpts soon but this brief note is here to let you know that they have been...

The League of Augsburg put on a demo of Aughrim at Claymore last weekend...

Ostergotland Regiment painted about 1995

Barry Hilton- Like many of the followers of this blog and members on Fighting Talk, I have a long standing interest in the Great Northern War. It started back in 1992 pretty much in parallel with my fascination with the League of Augsburg period. My first games were played with 32mm semi flats moulded from roofing lead and painted in toy soldier fashion by...