The League of Augsburg
Scenario: 13th June 1667 Medway AAR Part 2
Sorry for the delay in posting the Part 2 of this scenario. No reasons other than I have been really busy on writing and photographing the next wave of 4PLAY scenarios during my annual leave. More on that soon but meanwhile....
Turn 16
Terrible luck befell the English. The ‘Damn your eyes!’ card was drawn and a nervous, civilian- manned battery at the north end of the New Dockyard loosed its guns...
Scenario: 13th June 1667 Medway AAR Part 1
The Scenario
This scenario represents the climactic day of the spectacular Dutch attack on the English fleet at anchor in the River Medway. The objective is to burn three large ships of the line which have been partially sunk in shallow water down river of the Royal Dockyard at Chatham. The Dutch are led by the mastermind of the campaign Admiral van Ghent and accompanying the expedition is the...
Anniversary Post: Bloody Aughrim - Remembered as a wargame
 |
| Jacobite cavarly attack! |
The Battle of Aughrim holds a strangely Cinderella like quality when compared with the Battle of the Boyne but in everyway it is more interesting. It was more evenly matched. more brutal and more decisive.
 |
| A game I organized at Derby a few years back (terrain by Adrian Howe) |
It occurred almost a year later and by that time, despite their myriad tribulations, the Irish army...
The Battle of the Boyne 1st/12th July 1690. Remembered as a wargame
 |
| Williamite infantry crossing the river |
A welcome email from my friend Peter A, reminded me of the significance of the date (days and dates now seem to meld in this Covid world, I got up early this morning thinking it was a work day!). How could I have overloooked this anniversary, particularly as I live in the West of Scotland?
 |
| A version displayed at a Scottish show |
Whether the Old Style or New...
Book Review: Cromwell's Wars at Sea - John Barratt
My interest in Cromwell's naval campaigns came indirectly in that, I was interested in the Anglo Dutch Wars and the first of these was fought by the Commonwealth Navy. I was conscious that my focus appeared to be creeping further and further back into the 17th century and had now started bumping into the latter stages of the English Civil War and Thirty Years War. Not a problem in and of itself...
The Battle of Livorno 4th March 1653 Part 2: After action report
 |
| The lie of van Galen's ships as Badiley approaches from the north west. Mary is escaping. |
 |
| Start positions. Sole survivor Mary, makes her escape toward Badiley's reinforcing squadron. |
With Badiley to windward appearing over the western horizon to the north of Livorno, van Galen’s victorious squadron picked its way through the wreckage of Appleton’s five ruined ships and attempted to reach open water...
The Battle of Livorno 4th March 1653 Refight Part 1 - Set up and background
 |
| Barry's Battle of Livorno as refought |
 |
| Painting of the Battle of Livorno |
 |
| The Dutch ship Zon in action at Livorno |
The Battle of Livorno...
Great choice for a wargaming force - The Enniskilleners
 |
| Enniskillen companies forward! |
 |
| Enniskillen infantry in action against Jacobite chevaliers! |
Over many years of digging, I have read, compared, sifted, interpreted, dismissed and compiled little bits and pieces of information in an...
4Play and 4PlayX scenarios available for GNW
I am delighted to announce the release of the first 12 GNW scenarios including six 4PlayX games.
Poltava Part 1
All are centred around the Poltava campaign. Two have 17 pages and the other two 27 pages.
Here they are
Scenarios:
1. Man down - Masuria 1708
2. Bloody Baturyn! Ukraine 1708
3. Veprik. Swedish attack on Russian town. 1709
1. Attack! Roos's battalions attack the redoubts
2. Rehnskiold take...
Queensbury or cage fighting?
What has struck me is the contrast in the gaming intensity...
Redoubt redux
 |
| Set up for Scenario #2 The Guard's passage the lines. |
Although I have been gaming the Great Northern War for nearly thirty years, it is a long time since I gamed Poltava,...
Working in the man cave...
R...