The League of Augsburg

Barry Hilton - Ireland is familiar territory for our weekends. This scenario was a bit different from our previous efforts. We wanted to dress the table using Adrian's fine city walls so the game was built around the relief of a siege.


Athlone was the chosen location to be invested by General Ginkel's army. After some weeks a relieving force emerges from the dawn mist from the south west led by the...

Barry Hilton - Ireland is familiar territory for our weekends. This scenario was a bit different from our previous efforts. We wanted to dress the table using Adrian's fine city walls so the game was built around the relief of a siege.


Athlone was the chosen location to be invested by General Ginkel's army. After some weeks a relieving force emerges from the dawn mist from the south west led by the...

Herr Heim's GNW Saxons in all their glory

                                        

Mackay's army crosses into hostile territory from the left.

Barry Hilton- This scenario was constructed around the core of Mackay's and Dundee's armies at Killiecrankie. I wanted to give the players a chance to experience the extreme terrain of the Highlands and the novelty of dealing with Highlanders. As Jim Masson was attending the weekend and he had been very creative with his use of Warfare...

Barry Hilton - My preoccupation with all things spooky is a source of amusement to my wargaming  friends but from an early age I have always been interested in ghosts, witches, haunted houses and things that scare me. Recently when clearing out 50 years of family hording from my mother's house I found an old board game from the 1960's called Haunted Housewhich I used to love playing with my pals...

Klissow: Swedes on the left and Saxons on the right

Barry Hilton - This game was a scaled down version of the battle of Klissow, July 8, 1702. I dug my Swedes out of retirement for this one and literally has to give them a clean with a very fine sable brush to remove a layer of dust accumulated over years in box files and lying around my garage.

I misplaced three regiments (misplaced is an...

The blooding of Günter's Saxon Army against Karl XII's Swedes

Barry Hilton- Well, our Derby adventure is over for another year and we finished off 2013 in style with a new format featuring 4 separate tables through which the players worked their way over two days. The idea was something we'd used in our League of Gentlemen games for WW2 and Vietnam. The principle is to allow the maximum amount of...

Bart Vetters- When I started my Great Northern War Swedish collection, I decided to initially paint up (at least one battalion of) each of the five regiments that ended up with General Roos seperated from the main force. I did not know it a the time, but the Dal regiment was the only one of those five regiments to look like what everyone pictures in their mind when talking about Swedish infantry:...

We are just about to embark on our latest BLB gaming weekender in Derby, England. The format for this season's action differs from that used on previous events. Where, in the past we have run one huge game over two days, this time we are going to provide players with as broad a taste of the period 1690 - 1720 as possible.

Danes face Swiss and French at Derby

We are using four distinct theatres:...

Ray King - Here are the first of the horse and dragoon regiments...