The League of Augsburg

David Obrien- Following on from the much larger Irish game which Barry has started serialising we turned our attention to fighting small actions with only 4 or 5 units per side and also trying out some different armies. We had the pleasure of using the fantastic scenery produced by Whitehouse and Trickett many years back which stands the test of time well and which we then ended up using for our...

I had a hankering to put on a Skane War scenario after seeing Soren and Michael's wonderful efforts coming out of Stockholm.

5 Danish units on left, 3 + Swedish units on the right

This scenario is set sometime around the period of the Battle of Lund in the winter of 1676. The Swedish and Danish forces meet on a relatively open field with the Danish infantry holding some high ground and the Swedish...

This field engagement pitted a mixed Horse and Foot Swedish force against large Danish infantry units supported by an entrenched field gun. Again we chose a winter setting for the game repositioning the terrain pieces we had used for the Narva game.

Danes deployed across the foreground, Swedes in the distance

In this game description we'll introduce some more details about the new rules. The...

This was a mission based game. In structure it has several similarities to the Neerhespen 1693 scenario featured in WI and also used on one of our LoA weekenders. This adaptation was a nice vehicle to road test the new rules in a Great Northern War setting.

Narva 1700. Swedes on the left, the bridge(objective) on far right

In the dying stages of their great defeat at Narva the Russian army is...

Game 1 Tense moment - Novgorod Dragoons spot Regiment Halsinge

With the bit between our teeth we got together again and squeezed in three test games in a single day between 2pm and 8.30pm finishing them all. This proved several things;
The games were quick, bloody and decisive.
The mechanics flowed well enough for the author and two newbies to pick them up quickly and get stuck in.
The game time in...

Dave O'Brien - After originally discussing these type of small battles with Barry over a year ago we've finally gotten around to playtesting them and this was also the first outing of my Kirke's regiment at their full size for which they were originally painted for.


Both Bob and myself had seen a rough draft of the rules about six months before but these had since been beefed up and bore very...

Jacobite left with light gun and dragoons in the redoubt.

Most of the action was on the Williamite left flank during the game although Dave's Horse did make aggressive moves towards the enemy left. Only one regiment actually charged. Zuylenstein's small Veteran Horse regiment after much hesitation and greatly reduced by the sniping of the enemy's cornfield lurking dragoons, struck the massed pikes...

Having briefed Dave and Bob we took the plunge and got into the game. The new rules are card driven like Donnybrook for those familiar and Clarence's very popular English Civil War set Victory without Quarter.
As mentioned before, this test game is double the normal size of game but we wanted to give a good road test to some of the mechanisms.

Jacobites on the left atop their hill. This was the set...

Williamite infantry brigade led off by Regiment Funen

I was excited to get this game on the table. Bob and Dave had never seen the rules before and I deliberately kept the content away from them during the play test. The idea was for them to experience the rules completely fresh. I acted as umpire, did all of the calculations and referencing when various points arose. From this we wanted to gauge...

Large Williamite battalions deployed for battle

These rules have been developing for quite some time and I can hear some of you ask 'Why do we need another set of rules for the period from Wordtwister?' Very good question! Beneath the Lily Banners works very well and has proved a good seller and popular so am I potentially loading up to shoot myself in the foot?

Here is the answer:

Beneath the Lily...

Warfare Miniature Gardes Francaises painted by BH

The team was down to Tog, DOB and Crock (me with a bad back) but we managed a respectable showing at Edinburgh's annual wargaming jamboree. It seemed that we saw a huge number of our wargaming buddies and forum members during the day and spent most of it talking and very little gaming. One of my highlights was the bacon and haggis roll for...

I should know them from the standard!

close in shot of the Dutch