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Das Heer des Blauen Königs - The Bavarian Army
Clarence has produced a fantastic set of Bavarian infantry flags for the period 1680-1714. These were drawn partly from the portfolio of Das Heer des Blauen Königs Die Soldaten des Kurfürsten Max II....
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Helion Book offer: Charles XII'S Karoliners
Helion has very kindly offered followers of the LoA Blog an opportunity to receive a 20% discount on the new title focused on the Blue Machine of 1700-1720.If you order the book and quote the...
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Walking the battlefields..Glenshiel 1719
The bonus ball of a recent few wonderful days on Skye was the chance to visit Glenshiel battlefield on the inbound leg of the trip. I decided to do a little scrambling and ended up grabbing enough...
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Helion are offering a generous 20% discount to League of Augsburg Facebook and Blog followers on this exciting new release covering gaming the 1685 rebellions. Use the discount code Monmouth20. The...
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Bijouterie - small vessels for brown water actions
Small can be beautiful. I wanted to quickly produce a quantity of utilitarian vessels which I could use for brown water (coastal and river estuary) engagements in Europe and the far flung colonies...
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CHARLES XII’s KAROLINERS Volume 1 by Sergey Shamenkov Helion CotS Range
Let me begin by saying that wargamers and figure painters should have no complaints about this book. It is the most lavishly illustrated guide to the Swedish Army of the GNW period yet produced. My...
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Crush the Calvanists? Incinerate the Idolators? War in brown waters 1605
Tomorrow sees a return to Claymore for me. Last time I was there was three years ago and I was lucky enough to win the Best Display game with a land based Ottoman Wars effort in 28mm. This time I am...
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A Taste of Victory! Autumn offer - Book + PDF £25 incl postage
At last A Taste of Victory in pdf! Autumn Special Offer!- Get the book and the pdf combined for £20! Postage is £5 anywhere in the World. The book is crammed with Beneath the Lily Banners scenarios...
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1652 Prince Rupert in the Gambia campaign
We've recently begun a campaign recreating the adventures of the itinerant Royalist Fleet on the West African coast in 1652. Under Prinz Ruprecht von der Pfalz known more commonly in Engish as Rupert...
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Special discount offer on Leipzig - The Battle of the Nations for LoA Blog...
Blog and FB followers of the League of Augsburg can get a £5 discount on this new release from Helion by quoting this code NAP1813. My sources tell me it is flying out the door faster than me when it's...
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An extract from the Rupert in Gambia story
The campaign has a full and detailed narrative which accompanies the turn by turn mechanics. All of the narrative is based on events which happen in the table-top wargames combined with the role-play...
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Tooling up for some 4Play in the 1650-1690 period Eastern style
I really don't remember having this much stuff, but I guess it has been accumulating over the past few years. Although I will have to top and tail a few units the armies are pretty solid in terms of...
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Back from the Wars.. Promenades Travel Tour of Irish Battlefields 1690-1691
Field guns at OldbridgeWe packed a helluva lot into four and a half days visiting Oldbridge, Donore, Duleek, Athlone, Aughrim, Portumna, Nena and Limerick. We spent long enjoyable days walking the...
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Act of Oblivion - Worth reading?
I would not normally review a work of fiction on the blog but am happy to make an exception for Robert Harris's latest novel Act of Oblivion. It is a historo-fiction set in 'my period' as the...
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Tales from the river bank.. Rupert in the Gambia
Off the Bakendik Bolong, Rupert attacks the stranded Temperance.Eight days (15 turns) into the campaign, we are at the 25% mark. It has been an eventful journey so far and the Royalists are no further...
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And here is how it played out....
Héros close in during the heat of the action!Although co-architect of the attack on the stranded English slaver Temperance, Rupert was prevented from playing anything but the role of spectator on...
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Battle of Lepanto 1571 - a small (1/1200 scale) homage
Christians approach through the narrowsWith the anniversary of this enormous sea battle occurring yesterday, I thought I would fight a little game to mirror the setting and the ships. This is a 1/1200...
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Candia Candy - Ian Cluskey's Epic
Sense the scale of this epic!Devotion to the cause is the mark of the 17th century gamer. It doesn't come at any higher level than Jean de Dieu Labedoyere's (aka Ian C) game modelling the epic 21 years...
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Augsburg Partizan Candy..
Ottomans and Tatars to the left, Cossacks and Commonwealth to the right.Following on from the Candia Magnificence, my bijouterie lived next door at Newark, offering the Partizan audience an intense...
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Tatars and Sipahis - close-in work
I am getting more and more excited about amassing Muslim armies and these examples of what can be done with Warfare Miniatures Ottomans and Tatars are working out exactly the way I anticipated. The...
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