The League of Augsburg

Clarence Harrison - A conversation I had via Messenger last week...

"Are you ever going to finish blogging about your Ireland trip?"

"What? Didn't I finish it? That was a year ago..."

"Didn't you go the Boyne?"

"Son of a..."

So, yes. Roughly one year ago I took a trip to Scotland to play some games with toy soldiers and then on a boy's adventure outing to Ireland (you can find the other installments he...

Clarence Harrison- Well, that was fun! Running a game for players who have no experience with a rule set is always tricky. You can spend a lot of time bogged down in tedious explanations of mechanics and the minutia of the charts and discover that no one remembers it all anyway, or you can just dive in. I explained that the troops mostly use d6s or d8s to resolve their actions (a concept they WERE...

Unfazed, General Hamilton responds by trying to blind his opponent...


In the center of the field, Captain Magill's Dragoons crash into the second squadron of Tyrconnel's Horse....

Clarence Harrison - We opted out of printing a QRS this time, but fear not you can have them absolutely free! Once you get a handle on the game, most of the rules you'll need are right here...

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OMG! IT'S SIX PAGES LONG!

We got that with Republic to Empire and it somehow translated into causing some people anxiety. Let me head this off at the pass and point out YOU DON'T NEED...

Clarence Harrison- I had the opportunity to run a pre-release game of Beneath the Lily Banners/The War of Three Kings for some friends last weekend. They hadn't played any of the previous versions and were unfamiliar with the period, though eager to give it a try - and I was eager to see what they thought. When trying to decide on exactly what game to run, I turned to the pile of scenarios we have...

Before talking about what's new, let's look at some things that stayed the same...

Unit Organization
For the most part, units are organized in the same manner they've always been - three stands for a battalion of Foot and two stands for a squadron of Horse. Those of you with existing armies will easily make the transition, while those new to the period will have clear guidelines to get stuck in....

Before talking about what's new, let's look at some things that stayed the same...

Unit Organization
For the most part, units are organized in the same manner they've always been - three stands for a battalion of Foot and two stands for a squadron of Horse. Those of you with existing armies will easily make the transition, while those new to the period will have clear guidelines to get stuck in....

The game is still Beneath the Lily Banners. When we started developing the new rules, we wanted to streamline as many things as possible without loosing the feel of the game. Some of this came in the form of rule changes, but some came from discussing how to represent all of the different theaters of this period. We found we were expending a lot of effort trying to make sure we covered rules for...