The League of Augsburg

We have three new flag sheets for the GNW - Swedish Horse at Poltava!

Of course, they are available at the LoA Shop...

Barry continues with the After action report from an epic re-fight of The Battle of Aughrim...

We had a break of about three weeks before we were all able to muster for the second part of our Aughrim refight. So far we'd played about 16 turns and gamed for around 7 hours. The game had gone very much in the direction of the real battle. Probing attacks by the Williamites being successful only to a...

Barry continues with the After action report from an epic re-fight of The Battle of Aughrim...

We had a break of about three weeks before we were all able to muster for the second part of our Aughrim refight. So far we'd played about 16 turns and gamed for around 7 hours. The game had gone very much in the direction of the real battle. Probing attacks by the Williamites being successful only to a...

The Williamite guns signal the start of the battle

The opening shots of our first day at Aughrim were fired by General Ginkel's three positional guns on Urraghry Hill and aimed at the Jacobite troops on the northern slope of Kilcommodan Hill and in the lower ground between that point and Aughrim village. Although these salvoes were initially ineffective the guns soon began to find their mark. The...

Gerry Donohoe and Toggy Bob Talbot (The Williamites)

Having provided such a lot of background information in the first few parts of this article I just wanted to give a final pre battle perspective from the point of view of the players. Despite years of being interested in the period, painting and collecting the models and fighting numerous games, none of us had ever re fought Aughrim before!

I...

Dragoons garrison the ruins of Aughrim Castle

The Jacobite order of battle we used. I have not listed it in the normal format of first line, second line etc. I have used the regimental names of the units as we represented them which means that some of these units were not at the battle but our model soldiers were!

Left Wing of the Army defending Aughrim.

Castle Garrison
Walter Bourke's Dragoons (9...

Somewhere in the trenches.....

Colin Napier continues with tales of Protestant Frenchmen fighting their King......

Looking north from the Williamite right

Here is the Williamite order of Battle we used. I have not listed it in the normal format of first line, second line etc. I have used the regimental names of the units as we represented them which means that some of these units were not at the battle but our model soldiers were!

Left Wing of the Army facing Attibrassil bridge and southern slope of Kilcommodan...

Warfare, Dixons, Reiver and Foundry models all in this shot

Amongst my gaming circle there has been a gratifying and high quality effort to ensure our games are fought with as many Warfare Miniatures as possible. Most of us have worked on the 'I'll do that unit because I like it' principle so we did not have all of the regiments present at Aughrim within our collections.

This meant a reasonably high...

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