The League of Augsburg
Whiskey in the Jar-oh! Part 6: Characters and stuff
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| Hogan? |
Hogan’s role in this scenario is as a scout and not a fighter. He provides the Jacobite player with some extra options which emphasize his local knowledge and cunning.
· Hogan and the Shannon: Hogan can change the position of the ford! When he writes down the designated crossing point at the start of the game...
Naval Campaign game 3: Baert's Baptism!
March 19, 1689
Scenario name: Schomberg's reinforcements
Baert has word of a troop convoy bound for either Hoylake or Belfast. It is carrying English and Dutch soldiers to Ireland to fight King Louis's cousin James II. His ships left Dunkirk three days ago and are approaching the convoy from the north and windward. He is ordered to sink or capture as many of the transports as possible. The convoy is...
Scenario name: Schomberg's reinforcements
Baert has word of a troop convoy bound for either Hoylake or Belfast. It is carrying English and Dutch soldiers to Ireland to fight King Louis's cousin James II. His ships left Dunkirk three days ago and are approaching the convoy from the north and windward. He is ordered to sink or capture as many of the transports as possible. The convoy is...
Waving some flags! Ottoman, Holstein Gottorp, Brunswick, Celle
If you are into Ottoman flags or the smaller nations participating in the Great Northern Wars and War of the Spanish Succession look no further than eleven new flag sheets now available:
Here they are:
Here they are:
4 Ottoman sheets from my designs as seen here;
Holstein Gottorp Foot, Horse, Dragoons
Brunswick, Celle, Hanover - Foot and Horse
Find them all in the shop here:
Naval campaign game 2: Free trade? De Ruyter's first scenario
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| Set up |
Peter's Dutch squadron under legendary commander Michiel de Ruyter has its first outing.
De Ruyter - September 1664 off the Gold Coast/Ghana
Scenario name: Free trade?
De Ruyter - September 1664 off the Gold Coast/Ghana
Scenario name: Free trade?
The Dutch East India Company (VOC) has been building trade via Gold Coast ports for several years. The English have become increasingly interested in bolstering their cash strapped economy and its own Royal Africa Company has...
Whiskey in the Jar-oh! Part 5: The game
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| The river Shannon at Portumna - near where Sarsfield's cavalry are thought to have forded. |
What happened? I had originally started posting this seven parter back in 2016 but for some reason never posted the final three parts which I have just come across and realized they were finished!
So, picking up from Part 4 which you can link back to here:
Whiskey in the Jar-o Part 4
Here is Part 5 to be...
Naval Campaign game 1: Sovereign of the Seas?
14th February 1665: Off the Isle of Wight
Scenario name: Sovereign of the Seas
His Majesty King Charles II demands that every foreign vessel passing through English waters acknowledges his position as Sovereign of the Seas. In so doing each ship must lower its colours when an English warship is within sight. Although not at war, tension with France is mounting due to its support for the Dutch...
Scenario name: Sovereign of the Seas
His Majesty King Charles II demands that every foreign vessel passing through English waters acknowledges his position as Sovereign of the Seas. In so doing each ship must lower its colours when an English warship is within sight. Although not at war, tension with France is mounting due to its support for the Dutch...
Naval campaign missions - the first five
Here are the first five missions for the chosen fleets in overview. One has already been fought, I have written orders from another and await the instructions of the remaiing Generals at Sea.
In no particular order:
De Ruyter - September 1664 off the Gold Coast/Ghana
Scenario name: Free trade?
In no particular order:
De Ruyter - September 1664 off the Gold Coast/Ghana
Scenario name: Free trade?
The Dutch East India Company (VOC) has been building trade via Gold Coast ports for several years. The...
PRE-ORDER FOR CRISIS - Brexit postponed to make it easy for me to travel?
Thanks to whoever may have made it easy to visit CRISIS which was up until October 28th POST Brexit. It now appears to be PRE Brexit. Sniffer dogs and detection robots will therefore possibly not be crawling inside my boxes of painted miniatures on the boat across to Ijmuiden!
For any customers who wish to take advantage of a CRISIS 2019 Pre- order, just let me know what you want and I'll get it...
Meet the Fleets!
It was with interest, pleasure and gamer's curiosity that I opened the mails from participating blog members concerning the construction of their fleets for the occasional games which will be run and retold here.
The first is chosen by a Dutch gamer who will go under his nom de guerre... Jan Baert or as he is known beyond the Dutch speaking world - Jean Bart. 'Terror of the Dutch' and all round...
The first is chosen by a Dutch gamer who will go under his nom de guerre... Jan Baert or as he is known beyond the Dutch speaking world - Jean Bart. 'Terror of the Dutch' and all round...
Release of Danish battalion packs
Regiment Prinds Georg or Jorgen
Regiment Jyske or Jutland
Our Danish figures have proved quietly popular. Like the Danes themselves, they have gotten on with it without too much fuss. For wargamers with a practical approach the Danish army during the period 1675-1720 is a great choice. It was almost continuously at war. It can fight in theatres from Ireland Hungary. It can take the field for its...
More WiP shots of the wagonburg construction - mobile gateway
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| During the evolving construction process |
I fancied making a towed, mobile gateway for my wagon burg. The idea it that this feature guards the main entrance to the wagon fortress and, when necessary, can be towed out of the space it plugs to let troops in our out.
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| Creating a towing bar - probably need a lot of oxen for this beast |
The design had no drawing or plan, it is built from instinct and evolved...
Wargames Illustrated primer on With Talon and Claw
This is another well produced video from WI walking through the new book in some detail. I didn't even know it existed till I found it by accident on YouTube!
With Talon and Claw in depth look from WI
WI is also running a couple of articles soon. One is a battle report from a game I ran for Dan Faulconbridge and Mark Shearwood (Hi Mark!). The second is a scenario for gaming the Battle of...