The League of Augsburg

NEERWINDEN 1693: The fighting around Laer by LoA

I have never been one to resist the temptation of joining in a debate, particularly a controversial one. Seeing the mentions recently on this blog about the various perspectives on whether wargames should be permitted to look 'too good' or as an egalitarian alternative should assume a kind of Soviet sameness, I offer up some reasons why I believe...

David O'Brien- The first time I painted this battalion way back in the late '70's I knew nothing of the history or family connection with this unit. I was asked to take part in a 15mm Seven Years War campaign and they were looking for more French players, I was shown loads of illustrations of uniforms to choose from but thinking that most of them looked boring in white/light grey but some in red...

BLB has several additional rules which can be used to give this action some further depth and flavour. I recommend the following are used:

Clibinarium- A while back we previewed the first of our Garde Françaises models, and it would be fair to say they have caused us nearly as much trouble as they did their Anglo-Dutch adversaries.

First though, the good news; the Garde command. The first thing to note is that these are the first Warfare Miniature figures to be done with the new blank dollies that we've spent so much time over. They...

Ray King - Webb's brigade only consisted of 4 battalions and positioned in the centre of the field...

Barry Hilton - Clarence and I have been delighted with the steady growth in Beneath the Lily Banners players. The rules have now sold an impressive 2,000 copies since their release in 2008. Not a blockbuster we'd be the first to admit but in wargaming rules terms this is a success and certainly the rules have been  commercial viable.

Part of the success has definitely been due to the way we have...

Barry Hilton - Clarence and I have been delighted with the steady growth in Beneath the Lily Banners players. The rules have now sold an impressive 2,000 copies since their release in 2008. Not a blockbuster we'd be the first to admit but in wargaming rules terms this is a success and certainly the rules have been  commercial viable.

Part of the success has definitely been due to the way we have...

You must drive the Jacobite Army from the field. Victory will be complete if you do so without losing more than 50% of your own strength

Jacobite Objective

You must hold position and repulse the imminent attack. Victory will be complete if you are able to counterattack and drive the Rebels off the field.

Old Glory models with tricorn.

Barry Hilton- The Dutch Foot Guards or Gard te Voet or Blew Guards is a regiment the name of which is writ large during the period 1688 - 1714. By reputation they were probably the superior Grand Alliance unit of the time and heavily involved in the major campaigns of William of Orange and on. My first encounter with the Blue Guards was as part of a friend's...

 The Jacobite ‘Flying camp’ under Justin Macarthy Viscount  Montcashel

Ray King - Lt. General Lord Cutts commanded the allied left wing at Blenheim composed of twenty battalions and fourteen squadrons of English troops. His front line was the brigade of five battalions was commanded by General Rowe and they would lead the assault on the village of Blenheim.

Gardes Francaises - Veterans of 30 battles

Barry Hilton- I fell in love with the idea of the French Foot Guards the first time I saw them on a friend's wargames table in 1992. The figures were the very ones I used for my own regiment seen above; Dixons Sedgemoor infantry sculpted by Mark Copplestone. These characterful models are of course quite wrong for the royal Frenchmen in many areas; coat...