The League of Augsburg

Feature: Scenario pack: Lighting the fuse. Derry 1688/1689

by augsburgeroberst

Lord Mountjoy's Regiment leave the city in November 1688


This is the first in a series of Derry packs. It focuses on the events which sparked the conflict - the arrival of the Earl of Antrim's Regiment to replace Lord Mountjoy's Regiment as garrison. Nothing out of the ordinary there, one unit replacing another however, Derry was a Protestant town populated by planter families, many from London...
Posted in Beneath the Lily Banners, Donnybrook, History, Ireland, Limerick, Nine Years War, Scenarios, Siege, Terrain, The Glorious Revolution, The High Seas, The War of Three Kings, Warfare Miniatures, Wargaming

Feature: Scenario pack : Lightning Strike! Marlborough at Cork and Kinsale

by augsburgeroberst
Marlborough's troops go ashore at Passage West

This one came together very quickly in terms of content and choosing the actions to include. The games mainly use 4playX table sizes with eight units per side and gaming for eight turns. I have not fought these battles before in all my years of gaming the period nor, have I seen them demoed on the circuit. That is a little surprising when the...
Posted in Beneath the Lily Banners, History, Ireland, Limerick, Nine Years War, Scenarios, Siege, The War of Three Kings, Wargaming

New scenario pack releases- In the shop now!

by augsburgeroberst
I am absolutely delighted to have completed these four new scenario packs. They are now released and available in the online shop. These cover some exciting and unusual campaigns or, novel twists on better known campaigns. I will detail each in a separate post but suffice it to say, even if you are familiar with these events, you will find a new angle on each in the packs.
These are larger pdfs...
Posted in Beneath the Lily Banners, Donnybrook, History, Ireland, News, Nine Years War, Scenarios, Siege, The Glorious Revolution, The War of Three Kings, Wargaming

Scenario pdfs - Lockdown was the spur and now...

by augsburgeroberst
Kinsale scenario on a 4PlayX table

Exactly a year ago I was sitting in a very quiet part of Mallorca planning the next book. It'll be quick I told myself. Six months maybe. Well, it is just about ready and it took a year. It would have been sooner but Lockdown affected the layout process. That's all done now. It is a 128 page scenario book for Beneath the Lily Banners and is called 'A taste of...

Posted in Beneath the Lily Banners, Donnybrook, History, Ireland, Limerick, News, Scanian Wars, Scenarios, Siege, Tangiers, The Glorious Revolution, The War of Three Kings, Wargaming

Ottoman gunners - sculpts completed

by augsburgeroberst



 I have been holding back on certain posts for a while simply because I wanted to see how things were unfolding with Covid and supply chain issues such as manufacturing and master moulding. 





Things are slowly getting resolved but overall, I will have to implement wholesale changes in the way that I get products to market.Ultimately, that will be to everyone's benefit but during the transition,...

Posted in News, Nine Years War, Ottomans, Painting, Siege, Tangiers, Warfare Miniatures, Wargaming

4Play and 4PlayX scenarios available for GNW

by augsburgeroberst
I am delighted to announce the release of the first 12 GNW scenarios including six 4PlayX games. 

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



Poltava Part 1

1. Attack! Roos's battalions attack the redoubts
2. Rehnskiold take...
Posted in Beneath the Lily Banners, Donnybrook, History, News, Ottomans, Scenarios, Siege, The Great Northern War, The War of Three Kings, Wargaming

Queensbury or cage fighting?

by augsburgeroberst



The last couple of weeks has been consumed by intensive gaming and writing about the Great Northern War. The 4PlayX format which covers larger games on a 4 x 4 table, requires longer to set up, play, photograph and validate but oh boy, has it been worth it! I have been  utterly consumed by the twelve scenarios completed so far. 




What has struck me is the contrast in the gaming intensity...
Posted in Beneath the Lily Banners, History, News, Scenarios, Siege, The Great Northern War, The War of Three Kings, Wargaming

More WiP shots of the wagonburg construction - mobile gateway

by augsburgeroberst
During the evolving construction process


I fancied making a towed, mobile gateway for my wagon burg. The idea it that this feature guards the main entrance to the wagon fortress and, when necessary, can be towed out of the space it plugs to let troops in our out.



Creating a towing bar - probably need a lot of oxen for this beast

The design had no drawing or plan, it is built from instinct and evolved...
Posted in Modeling, Ottomans, Siege, The War of Three Kings, Warfare Miniatures, Wargaming

Templar Museum - Monteriggioni, Tuscany

by augsburgeroberst


This was a wee bit of a find. 1.5 Euro entry fee, a laminated six page guide in English - up a back stair inside a restaurant in the 'Assassin's Creed' castle of Monteriggioni - but, I loved it!



A series of vignettes from the 1st Crusade and Capture of Jerusalem to the Teutonic knights, Landsknechts and the dreaded Swiss coming to town in Siena - it was all good stuff.



I definitely got a hint of...
Posted in Siege, Wargaming

Building Garrison Point Fort in 1/2400 scale

by augsburgeroberst
Rough mock-up shot of Garrison Point Fort in 1667. Van Ghent's squadron attempting to sail past.

My ideas for the Medway Campaign 1667 involve it being conducted by map, in 1/2400 scale and finally, in 28mm for small land and naval actions.I thought I would begin building the small scale terrain with the first significant defensive work encountered by the Dutch.

On the north western tip of the Isle...
Posted in Modeling, Restoration & Dutch Wars, Siege, Terrain, The High Seas, Wargaming

Blood & Cutts Part 3

by augsburgeroberst
The final part of a piece on one of the country's forgotten Lions...

An appraisal of England’s fire eating general 




Cutts probably did not get into the heat of battle at Blenheim but his commanded a large body of the army.
Cutts on the table top

In a skirmish game John Cutts would be a fearless leader with a nose for danger. Fond of impetuous charges, close combat and impossible odds. A character who...
Posted in Beneath the Lily Banners, History, Siege, The Glorious Revolution, Wargaming

Blood & Cutts! Part 2

by augsburgeroberst
The second part of my piece on Lord John Cutts of Gowran.

An appraisal of England’s fire eating general


English hero - for sure, Subject of Swiftian satire - definitely!

What he did best

His speciality was leading assaults into the breach. Many of his wounds were received in such situations. He seemed to gravitate towards peers and superiors with a similar disposition to his own. One such, Thomas...
Posted in History, Ireland, Limerick, Siege, The Glorious Revolution, The War of Three Kings, Warfare Miniatures, Wargaming