The League of Augsburg
I've been waiting to tell you this for a long time...
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| Military coats and informal equipment |
Back where it all began. A passionate interest in the wars between 1685 and 1721. No idea that I would become the owner of a figure company. Inheriting someone else's idea of how things should be done and trying to work with that whilst always wanting to move things in a slightly different direction. Picking up on ideas started by someone else which needed...
New pdf set : A Wargamer's guide to the Williamite Army at Aughrim
Clarence has made some super contributions on artwork and we've updated certain information in light of continuing research and focus.
The contents follow this pattern:
A01. Modelling the Williamite Army and its senior officers
A02. The...
Eighth Wonder? Texel ship diorama Part 1
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| I was almost incontinent with excitement on seeing this level of detail. |
I am an unashamed Naval Nut and always have been. It doesn't matter what the subject is, if its in the water and looks remotely interesting I'll be all over it.
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| Den Helder is home port to the Dutch fleet - Belgian frigate Leopold I in centre |
Having accidentally come across some pictures of the ship diorama at Texel about a year...
Beneath the Lily Banners: The War of Three Kings (PRE-ORDER NOW)
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| Pre order price £25.00/$40 ex postage |
A novel new offer - Mounted Officer and Cornet packs
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| Cornet from WLOA40 with a new right arm! (As Adam Murray) |
Over the years I have done many special deals for customers which have involved splitting packs to get various figures out. I have accumulated dozens of perfectly good cavalry models which cannot be sold in packs of three because one or more figures are missing.
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| Officer from WLOA36 as a brigadier of Horse |
I have featured many of my...
Warfare Christmas Cracker 2017
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| Oh, Oh! (or is that Ho Ho?) It's that dodgy bloke from the mall again.. |
So what do we have in store (literally) for Christmas.
Well there is the £100.00 GNW Brigade
It contains: 4 x 20 model battalions + 1 mounted Commander + 1 light gun with crew.
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| Each battalion contains 10 musketeers + 5 pikemen + 5 Command models |
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| Gun crews will be a random choice from the 3 different sets SA1, SA2 and SA3 |
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| One of... |
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...
League of Augsburg game Crisis 2017
We had decided well in advance that our Crisis game for 2017 would be modest in size but pretty. There was no need to try and take a massive game by car to Antwerp as we already knew that Jon Sutherland would be running his monster Poltava game adjacent to our table. Running another GNW effort would simply have been overkill so we chose Flanders sometime between 1692 and 1695 for our effort.
Anothe...
A Fascinating detour Part 2 - Brielle
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| Gateway in Brielle's inner defensive ramparts |
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| Panel beyond the outer works explaining Brielle's position and history |
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| The moat between out ramparts and the Molenbolwerk - can you see its cannon? |
Whilst in Den Haag Toggy spotted an article about the fortress town of Brielle and its capture by the Sea Beggars during the Eighty Years War. Do you know anything about this? he asked. Nope was the unhelpful...
Les Français arrivent! French troops at Crisis 2017!
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| French Dragoons both mounted and dismounted supported by a mortar |
I had to make a choice - Blog or paint. I decided in the interest of having things to blog about, I should paint!
Crisis is approaching fast and soon Captain Haddock, Cookie Gwen and myself, the Old Codger, will be sailing the High Seas to Ijmuiden for our road trip to the centre of Belgian wargaming - Antwerpen.
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| One figure to finish... |
Fly Paper - The attack at la rivière du miel, November 1693
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| The valley of the Honey River, San Dominique |
Our campaign continues to expand in the Caribees. A plot hatched in the rum taverns of the Antilles and Jamaica culminated in a diversionary raid on the French held island of San Dominique in November 1693. This was one of the 'tune up' scenarios before the main event.
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| The forces of Governor du Casse, Louis XIV's man on San Dominique |
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| The mixed and rather... |
Report from the Front
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| Action during the battle to capture Tortuga from Governor du Casse |
I am just back from our latest Weekender epic continuing the campaign to control Britain and its associated colonial territories in 1693. I wanted to post up a glance at what we were doing before flying out to all points sandy tomorrow so, here it is!
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| The Jacobites last stand? Defending London from Prinz Eugen |
We played five games...