The League of Augsburg

The first edition of Beneath the Lily Banners has long been out of print, but it is still for sale as a PDF. Most of the core rules are the same and it's a great way to try BLB at a reduced price. Something that has not been available on PDF was the Quick Play Sheet... until now!


 We'll see about making the QRS for BLB2 available as well...

David O'Brien - Following on from my previous article, Paint your Wagon here is a scenario that shows wagons not only in action but taking the prime spot in the action.

This action takes place somewhere in North America in the 1680's and pits English armed frontiersmen and soldiers facing off against native Americans. The English forces have been off raiding French settlements and two wagon loads...

Ray King - I joined the Fighting Talk Forum in February 2008 and already had in mind a Marlburian project. After reading about the famous victory at Blenheim on the 13th August 1704, decided I would build a collection of all the British regiments at this battle.

With the help of Barry Hilton and many other forum members I built a general picture of the WSS period. Next came the decision of which...

Clarence Harrison - After reaching England in 1689, King William III established three regiments of Huguenots drawn from exiled French serving among his other battalions. These regiments were commanded by well known and experienced soldiers Pierre Massue (Comte de La Caillemotte), Francois du Cambon, and Isaac de La Melonière. Colonel De La Melonière was a former Lt. Colonel of the Anjou regiment...

David O'Brien - This photograph was taken during a photo session at Barry Hilton's a few months back and is the starting point for one of my Donnybrook scenarios, Saving the Slaves which I just fought a couple of weeks back, you can see a report of the game on my own blog, Dave's Toy Box.

The slaves waiting to be rescued, I bought these figures a few years ago  and I think they are produced by Eurek...

Aughrim 1691, Williamites on the left Jacobites on the right

Note on Unit Strengths, Composition and Orders of Battle.

The Orders of Battle are somewhat conjectural and are my own work. I have been able to discover only one source of names for the regiments present at the battle which although useful, threw up several anomalies which make its provenance somewhat questionable.  When in doubt, I chose to base units on typical compositions of forces in the...

The League of Augsburg put on a demo of Aughrim at Claymore last weekend...

Dan at WI HQ in Nottingham

Barry Hilton - I know Dan Faulconbridge pretty well, from a professional perspective at least. As a contributor to Wargames Illustratedfor over 15 years I have first-hand experience of his involvement with the magazine from initially assisting Duncan Macfarlane to assuming an increasingly prominent role and post Battlefront buy-out, running the UK end of the show. For...

As they appeared in my collection before disbandment 2009

Barry Hilton - I was originally attracted to paint this regiment because they had unusual orange facings. Well in 1992 when I first discovered the joys of the period that was pretty unusual! For some reason I and the gang got into habit of calling them Prinds Jorgen’s which is not I think correct. No idea where that came from. They are a...

I have created a basic scenario with three additional options. All are listed below;

1. The battle fought as per history

2. The return of the routed Jacobite Horse later in the battle

3. The...