The League of Augsburg

Never did I realize when I started this little review how many painters have actually sent me pictures of there work with Warfare Miniatures.

Dannie Fogleman's Saxons - I think he painted every darn one of them!

I should really be surprised because we've sold about 20,000 packs since we started so there are a few out there in Wargames Land.

Dannie's Swedes - Forward the Blues!

Dannie Fogleman was one...

Mark Allen's work of art - King William III

I enjoyed the first compilation of Warfare work by other painters and knew I had plenty of other examples so here is a part 2 to this little series of work by gamers and painters I admire and which show off Warfare Miniatures and the period with both imagination and creativity.

Dave O'Brien's wonderful - Kirke's Lambs for Tangier

Dave O'Brien (DOB to the...

A close in look at this code which is already proving pretty popular. As per usual we have 5 variants based on two body dollies and five different heads.





The arm comes in two options - bayonet fix and bayonet removed.




I chose to paint these in all green uniforms and I will use them for the Preobrazhenskoi Guards. Back to the old arguments - who is right and who is wrong, regarding uniform colours...




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Plenty of space to let my mind wander here....24.8062° N, 56.1254° E

Being somewhat averse to the sun I have used much of my time this last week to catch up on written projects safely indoors and away from it. I realized that I have a lot of these projects.

This bizarre battlefield duel did take place between two allies at 18.0193° N, 76.9758° W

I spent a good chunk of the week organizing the October...

Creole infantry in action!

The Caribbean theatre started as a one off idea but the more I researched it the more I got hooked by the scope, scale and generally bizarre nature of what the European superpowers got up to there.

Our first outing centres on Jamaica - previously Spanish, now English and very recently declared for King James and not King William. Challenging possession of the island is an...

Kirke's arrival at Santa Marta  - The Creole Regiment was already in position

Of course I have already blogged briefly on the topic of our 1693 Battle for Britain adventures but not really given any detailed insight into the battles. The reason was simple. I had a mass of data to sift through and organize and my time between the beginning of April (when we did it) and now has been filled with...

Donnybrook has become pretty widely used since its release (despite CH painting himself into the cover!).

Donnybrook is ideally suited to characterisation.  Clarence and I had much fun naming the rather ridiculous characters which pepper the pages of the rule book. A few of our friends appear there in very thin disguise.

The Ghost Army immediately started to lend itself to this characterisation...

Lots of hares have been running for many years on the topic of Russian Grenadier dress. The perpetuated image has been that of a tall mitre capped chap in a plain uniform very much in the fashion of the paintings of the English Foot Guard grenadiers or contemporary North German States'
grenadiers.




More recent research points to alternatives. The Russians appear to have had at least four regiments of...

The 1693 campaign season opened with three contrasting scenarios reflecting the differing challenges facing each of the commanders depending on where they found themselves at the close of 1692.

Kilbryde 1693 - site of the conventicle (assembling around the house)

In Scotland Viscount Dundee found himself nominally in control of the country but with far too few troops to effectively ensure the King's...

These chaps were a little bit behind in the production queue but as can be seen from these pictures were well worth the wait.



I am not whether it was the colour combination or the figures themselves but I really enjoyed painting this batch which are now available to purchase in the online store.



The poses are equally suited to being used for sergeants or perhaps even artillerists if a little variety...

This pack is figure porn. I love the poses, the definition and the ease with which they paint up.






The Sergeant is pointing with purpose. He looks like a Vet. I gave him a very plain uniform in the paint job but that just adds to his no nonsense air.







Russian Drummers' uniforms are relatively plain compared with even the Calvinist Swedes. This chap has the swallow's nest shoulder ends as frippery but...

Toggenhvud points out to Hiltonbock where the enemy are.....

Regrettably, The League of Augsburg has been absent from the Partizan show(s) for a couple of years. This was due to lack of bodies and the over-facing effort of single-handedly lugging a demo game and trade stand on a 640 mile round trip over 30 hours - I missed it!

Our pre-dinner stroll along the Trent to Newark Castle reminded us how...