The League of Augsburg

von Tettau, Marlborough and Tollemache left, Sarsfield, Hamilton and Berwick on the right

Three weeks before the event each player was sent a '1692 State of the Kingdoms' summary, a brief regarding their own situation and an order of battle giving details of the forces with which they would enter the campaign.

The master view campaign positional map - players saw a limited view of this

Over the...

Marlborough's interesting and challenging Command

Now then, saving the most interesting till last? What to do with Mr Churchill? I had cast him in the role of undecided. He had played little part in the alternative history between 1690 and our current point the summer of 1692.

He appeared to have retired to country life, taking time to be with his family, explore alternative sources of income to...

General Mackay's attack against Wauchope's French at Ripon 14th September 1692

Continuing the story of our Battle for Britain campaign with a focus on the Williamite forces participating in the war...

King William's forces were even more heterogeneous than those of King James. Dutch, English, Danes, Scots, Scots-Irish and French Protestant all contributed. Our commanders reflected this multi...

The experienced Regiment La Couronne

Continuing the story of our Battle for Britain campaign with a focus on the French troops participating in the war...

Clearly the most important power in Europe and the grand puppet master of the continent Louis XIV had to have a key role in the battle for the British islands and the crown.

Since we allowed St Ruhe to survive the Battle of Aughrim and score a...

The climactic Battle of Badon Hill

Continuing the story of our mini campaign of the battle for Britain in 1692 created around an alternative history post July 12, 1691.

Creating the forces for each commander was enjoyable and challenging in equal measure. I had to think about balancing the number, quality, fighting style, weaponry and durability with the character of the commander and the player...

Toggy walks us through his conclusions about BLB3, the Reunion Priory scenario and gaming with an army composed entirely of Raw Williamite troops....

Dave O'Brien walks us through his conclusions about BLB3, the Reunion Priory scenario and gaming with the Jacobites..

soon to be no more - the dragoon advanced guard unit

Not having really gamed together for about a year apart from putting on demo games at shows I was

really looking forward to this game with Barry and Bob especially as we would be using BLB3 which 

we had first tried out at the...

Start of T4. The strong Jacobite right has stopped the Enniskilleners dead.

We left off with most of the action having taken place on the Jacobite left flank with the Enniskillen troops coming off somewhat the worse against determined Jacobite Horse and Foot.

We at back in T4 with the fighting almost general along the front of both armies...

The finest infantry on the table - 1st battalion of the...

The Derry Horse brave the fire and smash into Dongan's

Now the fighting begins. Both players took an aggressive approach which saw the armies get 75% movement each and lurch towards each other.

Bob took an immediate chance by charging a squadron of the Derry Horse at Dongan's dragoons in advance of the army's right. The Raw troops had no trouble charging and the Raw dragoons passed their test...

The Williamite army is in the foreground

In this post we overview Bob's Williamite force. The idea of its composition represents the available Irish Protestant forces before the landing of King William's English and continental troops in August of 1689. The units are all from Enniskillen and Derry.

Murray's Derry squadrons

Horse of the Left under Adam Murray 2 points