The League of Augsburg

August the Strong's Saxon Army prepares to attack the enemy

Gunter Heim impressed us so much with his Saxon Army on his last visit to the UK that I just had to incorporate them into this year's schedule. We wanted to get the Swedes out again too as they are so different to game with. The final element to the game was my desire to put on a winter table and see how that looked.

The Williamite Army became very disorganized during the fighting. Many units fled the field without having seen action. Some brigades saw heavy fighting whilst others suffered few or no casualties what soever.

Another close combat for Kilmallock's

Starting on the army's right flank

Leveson's Regiment of Dragoons: Casualties zero. Holding position east of the Melehan stream.
Earl of Oxford's Regiment...

King William's infantry are ready to get their feet wet

It's one of those battles that people have heard of, even those with no interest in history. Like Waterloo, The Charge of the Light Brigade and The Somme, the Battle of the Boyne has crept into the British collective subconscious and lives in dark corners of hazy misinterpretation. "Isn't that where King Billy killed the Pope?" is an...

Editior: This was scheduled for last week, but somehow didn't post - I have been out of it for a few weeks and didn't notice! My apologies...

The grim statistics from the re-fight are quite revealing. Bare in mind that in the BLB system of casualties a unit loses are not meant to represent simply men killed in action but men wounded, deserters and a reduction in overall unit fighting effectiveness....

The idyll that is south western France.. soon to be shattered

Moving Donnybrook around the various theatres of conflict has been an enjoyable exercise. So far we've had games in Tangier, Massachusetts, Scotland, Ireland, Scania and some dark place in our minds which could have been Hammer Horror land. A trip to the sunny south west of France was a new destination.

Disgruntled Huguenot veterans pour...

Pork bellies full of loot... the most valuable pigs in Edinburgh!

This scenario was perhaps born when I was having a dream or under the 'fluence. It seemed logical at the time. It is loosely based on a historical incident, that being, the imprisonment of the 9th Earl of Argyll, Archibald Campbell in Edinburgh Castle in 1681. A reluctant signatory to a document recognizing the Divine right of Kings...

Aughrim Village from the Causeway:copyright BHilton.

Now it is all over it is worth reflecting on the differences between our result and that of history. Well, firstly,
the Jacobites were victorious by holding their line and completely repulsing the enemy! This would have meant in historical terms possibly -

Donnybrook in Stockholm! The teams assembled.

Barry Hilton - I very much enjoyed my evening in the company of Soren, Michael and the gang. They have a nice set up in a 'club basement' in the suburbs of the city. Having visited the Army Museum with the guys in the afternoon I headed out with Soren for a Donnybrook game set up by Michael in the evening.

What a gorgeous table.. the work of Michael Leck

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Clarence Harrison - Another addition to our GNW range...


Preobrazhenski and Semenovski regiments, available now from the LoA shop! It's been mentioned before, but you can get all of our flags at glorious LoA scale (50mm high), a quiet confident Quindia Studios scale (40mm high), and a boring 'realistic' scale (30mm high)... If you need something else drop us a note and we will see if we can work...

Reconvening about a further three weeks down the line...Barry concludes the battle report  on the epic struggle at Aughrim.

Judging by his top you couldn't tell Gerry was Ginkel!! The start of Part 3.

For all you marathon runners out there; To recap, 10 x 6 feet table, about 1,600 miniatures and so far about 13 hours of gaming. Four players come together for the third time to try and resolve the...

Clibinarium - It may have seemed for quite some time now that all has been quiet on the Warfare Miniatures front, without news of new releases or development. But things have been progressing steadily under the radar on the first part of our new venture into the Great Northern War; the army of Charles XII.

Over the Christmas period a lot of work went into the preparation of doll figures, indeed I...