The League of Augsburg

Back from the Wars.. Promenades Travel Tour of Irish Battlefields 1690-1691

by augsburgeroberst
Field guns at Oldbridge

We 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 fields, forts, castles and sites of the campaigns of 1690 and 1691 in Leinster, Connaught and Munster.


Sean O' Brogain's artwork in the cafe at Oldbridge

We had an outstanding group of friendly, curious...

Posted in History, Ireland, Limerick, Museums, Nine Years War, Siege, The Glorious Revolution, The War of Three Kings

River crossing scenarios - Barry's Half-men

by augsburgeroberst

 

Some new and unique pieces which I will be selling off.

I tinker with stuff. It's an illness and I have had for years. I can't just leave things alone. I have to be chopping up figures, converting them and generally mucking about. Having been fixated with river crossings in Ireland (it all started with the Boyne you see) for quite some time, I have accrued a lot of what was once described by a...

Posted in Basing, Beneath the Lily Banners, Donnybrook, Ireland, Limerick, Modeling, News, Nine Years War, Painting, Scenarios, The Glorious Revolution, Warfare Miniatures, Wargaming

17th Century Warfare - Online talk - The campaigns in Ireland 1688-1691

by augsburgeroberst

Barry Hilton - Late 17th century Warfare: Online Talk
Saturday 22nd May, 2021 1100-1300 BST.


Ihave the pleasure of hosting a talk for Ulster Wargames Society on the above date. The focus of the talk is Warfare in the late 17th century with particular emphasis on the campaigns of King William III and King James II. The society is making the talk open to non members. There is no charge for...
Posted in History, Ireland, Limerick, News, Nine Years War, The War of Three Kings, Wargaming

It's St Patrick's Day so...

by augsburgeroberst

We can't let today pass without featuring some Irish action from the Nine Years War on the blog. So I thought the best way to pay tribute to the theatre and the fighting men which has given me the most stimulation to understand the period in the last thirty years was to simply create a photo montage of action and inspiration in Ireland from the League of Augsburg..



Happy St Patrick's day to...

Posted in Beneath the Lily Banners, Donnybrook, History, Ireland, Limerick, Mad for War, Nine Years War, Quindia Studios, Scenarios, The Glorious Revolution, The War of Three Kings, Warfare Miniatures, Wargaming

Feature: Scenario pack: Lighting the fuse. Derry 1688/1689

by augsburgeroberst

Lord Mountjoy's Regiment leave the city in November 1688


This is the first in a series of Derry packs. It focuses on the events which sparked the conflict - the arrival of the Earl of Antrim's Regiment to replace Lord Mountjoy's Regiment as garrison. Nothing out of the ordinary there, one unit replacing another however, Derry was a Protestant town populated by planter families, many from London...
Posted in Beneath the Lily Banners, Donnybrook, History, Ireland, Limerick, Nine Years War, Scenarios, Siege, Terrain, The Glorious Revolution, The High Seas, The War of Three Kings, Warfare Miniatures, Wargaming

Feature: Scenario pack : Lightning Strike! Marlborough at Cork and Kinsale

by augsburgeroberst
Marlborough's troops go ashore at Passage West

This one came together very quickly in terms of content and choosing the actions to include. The games mainly use 4playX table sizes with eight units per side and gaming for eight turns. I have not fought these battles before in all my years of gaming the period nor, have I seen them demoed on the circuit. That is a little surprising when the...
Posted in Beneath the Lily Banners, History, Ireland, Limerick, Nine Years War, Scenarios, Siege, The War of Three Kings, Wargaming

Scenario pdfs - Lockdown was the spur and now...

by augsburgeroberst
Kinsale scenario on a 4PlayX table

Exactly a year ago I was sitting in a very quiet part of Mallorca planning the next book. It'll be quick I told myself. Six months maybe. Well, it is just about ready and it took a year. It would have been sooner but Lockdown affected the layout process. That's all done now. It is a 128 page scenario book for Beneath the Lily Banners and is called 'A taste of...

Posted in Beneath the Lily Banners, Donnybrook, History, Ireland, Limerick, News, Scanian Wars, Scenarios, Siege, Tangiers, The Glorious Revolution, The War of Three Kings, Wargaming

Anniversary Post: Bloody Aughrim - Remembered as a wargame

by augsburgeroberst
Jacobite cavarly attack!

The Battle of Aughrim holds a strangely Cinderella like quality when compared with the Battle of the Boyne but in everyway it is more interesting. It was more evenly matched. more brutal and more decisive.
A game I organized at Derby a few years back (terrain by Adrian Howe)




It occurred almost a year later and by that time, despite their myriad tribulations, the Irish army...
Posted in Beneath the Lily Banners, History, Ireland, Limerick, Nine Years War, Quindia Studios, Scenarios, Wargaming

Great choice for a wargaming force - The Enniskilleners

by augsburgeroberst
Enniskillen companies forward!


It is an ongoing personal mission to make available as much information as possible about the fighting men participating on both sides during the war in Ireland 1688-1691.


Enniskillen infantry in action against Jacobite chevaliers!


Over many years of digging, I have read, compared, sifted, interpreted, dismissed and compiled little bits and pieces of information in an...
Posted in Basing, Beneath the Lily Banners, History, Ireland, Limerick, Nine Years War, Painting, Quindia Studios, Scenarios, The Glorious Revolution, The War of Three Kings, Uniforms, Warfare Miniatures, Wargaming

Marlborough's amphibious campaign 1690 - pdf release

by augsburgeroberst


It is with delight and some pride that we release our latest pdf detailing the campaigns in Ireland between 1688 and 1691.

Charles Fort, Kinsale - scene of a bloody siege, sallies and assaults


This one deals with the ambitious and extremely successful amphibious campaign undertaken by the Earl of Marlborough against Cork and Kinsale in the autumn of 1690. Involving thousands of troops fresh from...
Posted in Beneath the Lily Banners, History, Ireland, Limerick, News, Nine Years War, Quindia Studios, Scenarios, The Glorious Revolution, The War of Three Kings, Uniforms, Wargaming

Naval campaign game 5: All hands to the oars!

by augsburgeroberst
Darkness and fog - ideal for an escape bid from a potentially hostile harbour

November 23rd, 1688: Copenhagen

Chaos reigns supreme in England. The invasion by Willem of Orange less than three weeks previously has caused the army to disintegrate. The naval service is in turmoil, torn between loyalty to its old commander in chief and King, the officers and men weigh the options for their individual...
Posted in 17th century naval campaign, Limerick, Restoration and Dutch Wars, Scenarios, The Glorious Revolution, The High Seas, Wargaming

The National Museum of Ireland - a lovely wee surprise

by augsburgeroberst
The parade ground square at Collins Barracks which is an old British Army facility from the late 18th/early 19th century.

I squeezed this in whilst speaking at a conference in Dublin. What a wonderful find it was. In this first post I thought I would trail the variety of fantastic and interesting militaria contained in a very substantial and well laid out national museum. I visited the Collins...
Posted in History, Ireland, Limerick, Museums, The Glorious Revolution